Are we (teachers) boring? …dreadful?

Why has it become increasingly more difficult to get most of our students engaged in the class?

Questions to Students

• What do you want to do in class today?

• What do you like to talk about when you are with your friends?

• What plans do you have for the weekend?

• What was the last movie you saw?

• Did you go to a party last week?

• How are you doing in school/college/office?

Students’ Reaction

1. Students open themselves to topics they find meaningful.

2. They have something personal to say.3. They can exchange ideas about the

topics discussed in class.4. They pay attention to what is said by

their classmates.5. They engage themselves in what is

happening in class from minute one.

Teacher’s management

• The teacher takes advantage of students who get engaged in the discussion in class by making them ask student to student questions as a way to start dialogues among them.

• The teacher keeps feeding students with topics which are familiar to them.

Expectations

• Students are expected to warm up by talking about things they really care about.

• Students will find themselves as real actors of what is going on in class.

• Students will get to know each other better and, therefore, the atmosphere in class will become friendlier.

Results

• Teacher and students will work together in an effective way due to the interest on the topics discussed in class.

• This way to start classes will make students feel more confident, and they will enter topics in the textbook with determination.

• Once students start to talk in class, they will keep on doing so as a habit.

Working with textbook:

• Always activate students knowledge in any activity

• Rephrase or clarify key terms or words:

• TREND

• FACT

• OPINION

• ISSUE

Production through music

• Pick a song people of all ages like

• Tell/ask some information about singer/s

• Show them a picture

• Play the song and have them identify vocabulary from lyrics

• Have them read the song slowly articulating the words in English clearly.

MOON SHADOW by Cat Stevens

George Michael

Dear colleagues…