Every Tuesday, Lori the author of the This blog shares two of her favorite structured language practice activities with the readers. This past Tuesday Oct. 22 her first activity was the "Talking Chips", which encourages ESL learners to speak and participate with the whole class. The idea here is to pass out the same number of chips to every student, present a topic for discussion along with sentence frames, vocabulary, and prompts, and ask whoever wishes to speak to give back a chip until all students have used all their chips. This way all students participate in the discussion without having some speak more than the others.
The second tip for this week is doing the same activity using numbers in a hat. Students are divided into two groups, the teacher or the students themselves suggest a fun topic to discuss, each students is assigned a number, and every time that number is drawn that student used the prompts from the teacher to contribute to the discussion.
Even though some of these tips are familiar to me, I find it important to keep reminding myself to use them with my students in the classroom. By creating a list of teaching tips like these, teachers will end up having a good source of ideas and activities to use with their ESL learners, a thing that would make their instruction diverse, up to date, and engaging to the different students.
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The second tip for this week is doing the same activity using numbers in a hat. Students are divided into two groups, the teacher or the students themselves suggest a fun topic to discuss, each students is assigned a number, and every time that number is drawn that student used the prompts from the teacher to contribute to the discussion.
Even though some of these tips are familiar to me, I find it important to keep reminding myself to use them with my students in the classroom. By creating a list of teaching tips like these, teachers will end up having a good source of ideas and activities to use with their ESL learners, a thing that would make their instruction diverse, up to date, and engaging to the different students.
Comment already posted on the blog.
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ReplyDeleteI like the "Talking Chips" idea.