Hello everyone!
How are you doing everyone! I guess you are doing fine since you are here :)
Today, I wanted to share my experience and my activity as a teacher. As I might have mentioned before I'm still a student studying English Language Teaching at Istanbul University. And I wanted to learn more about teaching and get experience in order not to mess everything up when I actually start doing it. So, as so many of you did, I'm working at a private course (very famous one here in Turkey not gonna give names out here :) and I've been working for two and a half months (I just calculated this omg already that long!) Nevermind. I'm cutting the chitchat and let's talk about some real deal.
I have a group of 5 young boys. They are between the ages of 9-11. They are already accustomed to English a bit. They know present tenses, a lot of core vocabulary and they pretty much understand my English.
So one day out of nowhere I decided to do an activity on action verbs. It just came into my mind when I was on duty during a break looking at the students' artwork. The reason why I'm telling this as "popped into my mind" that when I started teaching I was worried that I would look stupid and unprepared, however, one of my friends said, "Creativity flourishes in the classroom, during lessons." One of them also said I will sweat a lot in young learner classrooms because I would want to keep them engaged which was also true. Nevermind.
So, my amazing creativity did a little activity in her mind which brings us to action verbs.
This one is very basic. You bring some worksheets of action verbs with pictures. There are millions of them literally. (49 million in my google search) Then we checked all of them by looking at pictures, we did some repeat after me for pronunciation. It took like 2 minutes. Then I asked them to stand up and I basically gave them instructions, commands and they did them in the class and I took photographs during their hilarious movements. It was a pure TPR activity which I enjoyed a lot (they too lol) Then I printed them and we cut out all the photos, put them on the colorful paper, and wrote down the verbs.
It was very fun and relaxing. Actually, it was the first time that they didn't move or talk which was amazing for me, at least for one class. They learned some of the verbs because they personalized it. They also didn't think it's an activity and learning, they just did it out of nowhere for fun.
I know all these things sound amazing but there might be some cons too. If you have a very large classroom you can make it in groups. But make sure that nobody teases another student and says "Oh no! You can't do it, you idiot! This is not how you run!" Yeah, this happens. A lot of coursebooks mention this as some kind of bad behavior. Those kids are trying to beat each other for god's sake! Be more open to teacher books!
Also, some of your students might say "Omg, this is so boring like we already know this why do we do this!!!" When some are going to cut the images and put some glue on them with great enthusiasm.
Anyway, I really liked my idea. It looked good on the school board and all of the teachers loved it (extra credit for me) I'm joking (not so much), kids also loved it. You can try it at home or even at school!
Be careful with the scissors and try to use English during the activity.
Here are some pictures!
If you do this please comment down below!
Today, I wanted to share my experience and my activity as a teacher. As I might have mentioned before I'm still a student studying English Language Teaching at Istanbul University. And I wanted to learn more about teaching and get experience in order not to mess everything up when I actually start doing it. So, as so many of you did, I'm working at a private course (very famous one here in Turkey not gonna give names out here :) and I've been working for two and a half months (I just calculated this omg already that long!) Nevermind. I'm cutting the chitchat and let's talk about some real deal.
I have a group of 5 young boys. They are between the ages of 9-11. They are already accustomed to English a bit. They know present tenses, a lot of core vocabulary and they pretty much understand my English.
So one day out of nowhere I decided to do an activity on action verbs. It just came into my mind when I was on duty during a break looking at the students' artwork. The reason why I'm telling this as "popped into my mind" that when I started teaching I was worried that I would look stupid and unprepared, however, one of my friends said, "Creativity flourishes in the classroom, during lessons." One of them also said I will sweat a lot in young learner classrooms because I would want to keep them engaged which was also true. Nevermind.
So, my amazing creativity did a little activity in her mind which brings us to action verbs.
This one is very basic. You bring some worksheets of action verbs with pictures. There are millions of them literally. (49 million in my google search) Then we checked all of them by looking at pictures, we did some repeat after me for pronunciation. It took like 2 minutes. Then I asked them to stand up and I basically gave them instructions, commands and they did them in the class and I took photographs during their hilarious movements. It was a pure TPR activity which I enjoyed a lot (they too lol) Then I printed them and we cut out all the photos, put them on the colorful paper, and wrote down the verbs.
It was very fun and relaxing. Actually, it was the first time that they didn't move or talk which was amazing for me, at least for one class. They learned some of the verbs because they personalized it. They also didn't think it's an activity and learning, they just did it out of nowhere for fun.
I know all these things sound amazing but there might be some cons too. If you have a very large classroom you can make it in groups. But make sure that nobody teases another student and says "Oh no! You can't do it, you idiot! This is not how you run!" Yeah, this happens. A lot of coursebooks mention this as some kind of bad behavior. Those kids are trying to beat each other for god's sake! Be more open to teacher books!
Also, some of your students might say "Omg, this is so boring like we already know this why do we do this!!!" When some are going to cut the images and put some glue on them with great enthusiasm.
Anyway, I really liked my idea. It looked good on the school board and all of the teachers loved it (extra credit for me) I'm joking (not so much), kids also loved it. You can try it at home or even at school!
Be careful with the scissors and try to use English during the activity.
Here are some pictures!
If you do this please comment down below!
Keep up the good work! It motivates me to upload on my blog :)
YanıtlaSilThanks my friend. Please upload more. We need education and humour!
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