by Anna » Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:27 pm
I guess all teachers have some tricks to make practice activities more interesting and motivating . An activity many of my students like when practising specific language items are headless or tailless sentences. I write target structures and they need to complete them with subjects or objects (for example, to practise the passive voice: complete the sentences '........is played by two teams of 11 people' or 'In Europe, witches used to be.......). I write a set of sentences and divide the class in teams...the one that finishes first and correctly gets points. Also the questionnaires 'Find who' or 'have you ever..' make them enjoy something which becomes real for them as they have to look for people in class to complete those structures.
I guess all teachers have some tricks to make practice activities more interesting and motivating . An activity many of my students like when practising specific language items are headless or tailless sentences. I write target structures and they need to complete them with subjects or objects (for example, to practise the passive voice: complete the sentences '........is played by two teams of 11 people' or 'In Europe, witches used to be.......). I write a set of sentences and divide the class in teams...the one that finishes first and correctly gets points. Also the questionnaires 'Find who' or 'have you ever..' make them enjoy something which becomes real for them as they have to look for people in class to complete those structures.
