Tuesday, January 18, 2011
TEACHING IDEAS
Mixed Up Words :
This idea is taken from http://www.squidoo.com/esl-teaching-activities
After I finished college I was pressured into getting a construction job. I was constantly told that this was the way to get ahead in life. So, I started to put in the hours, days, weeks, months, years on the construction site. The work was shit, but the pay was decent.
It wasn't until I saw my other construction friends getting locked down because they were buying nice cars, homes, getting married and having kids... when I realized that I have to live my life. And working a high paying construction job is not the way.
So... I decided to make a change. I decided to travel. I decided to teach English. This is the beginning of my Adventures of teaching English in Asia.
To make a long story short...it was the best decision of my life; and when I first arrived in Taiwan I didn't know how I would survive, but I hoped for the best. I very easily found work as an ESL teacher in a school in Taipei, Taiwan.
I was very nervous my first day of school / work. Unluckily, my boss and co workers were not too educated about ESL teaching games. They told me how to play a few...but these were the same games that they had been playing/teaching the students with for years. I quickly learned how to play the games that were taught to me... but I knew that there must be more fun, exciting and motivating games than just these fews.
Luckily, I have stayed in Asia working as an English teacher in Asia for the past five years of my life. I have met a lot of people, been to a lot of places and I learned from so many teachers. Some of the things that I have learned from other ESL teachers are fun and exciting ESL games. This is one of those games:
This ESL Game is called, "Mixed up Words."
This game would be the first game that I would teach a new ESL teacher because this ESL Game is so simple. To play it ~ all you have to do is think of a word. This word can be a word the class has already learned or a new word which you will teach them.
1. Think of the word in your head.
2. Write the word on the blackboard ~ BUT when you write the word; write it in the wrong order.
EX.
sagls
twrea
god
nowcl
okob
3. Tell the students to write the unscramble the mixed up words ~ and then show you their paper to check the answers. The first five students who finish can win a Gold Star!
Did you figure out the answers?
1. Glass
2. Water
3. Dog
4. Clown
5. Book
This is a great ESL Game to use as a warm up activity. I would find myself playing this a lot when I was learning how to teach English as a Second language...because it wasted a lot of time.
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During my English classes I always try to give my students a challenge or something to make them to think at the beginning of a lesson, I start saying a riddle then I write it on the board, give them time to think and find out or guess the answer. We really have a good time by doing this and the most important thing they have fun when they try to guess the answer . Sometimes the riddle are so simples and they get mad.
riddle
a doctor and a nurse have a baby boy, but the boy`s father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can be?
answer: the doctor is the mother. - female doctor.
by: Donna Soto.
It wasn't until I saw my other construction friends getting locked down because they were buying nice cars, homes, getting married and having kids... when I realized that I have to live my life. And working a high paying construction job is not the way.
So... I decided to make a change. I decided to travel. I decided to teach English. This is the beginning of my Adventures of teaching English in Asia.
To make a long story short...it was the best decision of my life; and when I first arrived in Taiwan I didn't know how I would survive, but I hoped for the best. I very easily found work as an ESL teacher in a school in Taipei, Taiwan.
I was very nervous my first day of school / work. Unluckily, my boss and co workers were not too educated about ESL teaching games. They told me how to play a few...but these were the same games that they had been playing/teaching the students with for years. I quickly learned how to play the games that were taught to me... but I knew that there must be more fun, exciting and motivating games than just these fews.
Luckily, I have stayed in Asia working as an English teacher in Asia for the past five years of my life. I have met a lot of people, been to a lot of places and I learned from so many teachers. Some of the things that I have learned from other ESL teachers are fun and exciting ESL games. This is one of those games:
This ESL Game is called, "Mixed up Words."
This game would be the first game that I would teach a new ESL teacher because this ESL Game is so simple. To play it ~ all you have to do is think of a word. This word can be a word the class has already learned or a new word which you will teach them.
1. Think of the word in your head.
2. Write the word on the blackboard ~ BUT when you write the word; write it in the wrong order.
EX.
sagls
twrea
god
nowcl
okob
3. Tell the students to write the unscramble the mixed up words ~ and then show you their paper to check the answers. The first five students who finish can win a Gold Star!
Did you figure out the answers?
1. Glass
2. Water
3. Dog
4. Clown
5. Book
This is a great ESL Game to use as a warm up activity. I would find myself playing this a lot when I was learning how to teach English as a Second language...because it wasted a lot of time.
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riddle
a doctor and a nurse have a baby boy, but the boy`s father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can be?
answer: the doctor is the mother. - female doctor.
by: Donna Soto.
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Your comments will enrich our daily basis teaching.
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