Teaching English as a Foreign Language

120 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together For both weak and strong students, include more competitions and games with the same l ...

Chapter 8: Being Materialistic! Using Course Books and Other Materials 121 Making Use of Authentic Materials If you’re not using ...

122 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Authentic materials are so ‘of the moment’ that you need some knowl- edge of current ...

Chapter 8: Being Materialistic! Using Course Books and Other Materials 123 ✓ Separate visuals from exercises so that you can use ...

124 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together From a simple stick figure you can create an entire back story in collabora- tion with ...

Chapter 9 Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom Managing Your Classroom In This Chapter ▶ Managing your ...

126 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Some general points of good practice I find very helpful in almost all teaching situat ...

Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom 127 Organising Your Classroom The layout of your TEFL classroom d ...

128 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Arranging the room When it comes to tables and chairs, each style has its own advantag ...

Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom 129 Figure 9-2: Gathering students into groups aids interaction. ...

130 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Figure 9-3: Traditional rows don’t generally promote active engage- ment. Key Teacher ...

Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom 131 ✓ No smoking in the classroom. ✓ No eating during the lesson. ...

132 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Establish the rules clearly. If you need to get the rules translated or represented ...

Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom 133 ✓ The class is too big. This comes down to school policy but ...

134 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Students who bully, shun or mock other students in the class. Employ a zero toleranc ...

Chapter 9: Who’s The Boss around Here? Managing Your Classroom 135 Attending to poor attendance Poor attendance is a real pain b ...

136 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ...

Part III Teaching Skills Classes ...

In this part... L istening, speaking, reading and writing: the four cornerstone skills of English. Welcome to Part III, which sh ...

Chapter 10 Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons Reading Lessons In This Chapter ▶ Finding reading material ▶ Reve ...