Useful Time Fillers for All Language Classes
Use Time Wisely with These Time Fillers for Every Language Classroom From my experience of teaching French and German GCSE and A Levels, I know there is not a lot of need for time fillers. Mainly, because there is so much content to get through! Nevertheless, I believe the time fillers below would be useful for any language classroom, either as a filler activity, or to use as a teaching activity to practise speaking, listening and writing, as well as revision of vocabulary, and translation skills, for example. 1. Chinese Whispers Aim: To communicate a word, sentence or chunk of speech from person to person and see how much of the…
Revision Activities – Language Tip of The Week 10
Revision Activities for the Language Classroom Teaching Tip of The Week I know I promised that my language teaching tips of the week would be practical, low-prep teaching ideas that could be used in every language class. However, whilst this activity does fit that bill, it works best at the end of each topic to help students with revision, which I am sure is not too far away and still useful. This teaching activity is pretty much no-prep for the teacher, apart from getting a few resources together. Try it out! EDITION 10 – Teaching Tip Of The Week Revision Activities for the Language Classroom Title: Revision Activities for the Language…
Ultimate General Knowledge Quiz Bundle for Tutor Time
Need some ‘educational’ quizzes to keep students entertained at tutor time? If so, try out one, or all four of these quizzes for tutor time. I mean, who doesn’t love a logo quiz or a good general knowledge quiz?! I have created this quiz bundle for tutor time with four rounds. This includes: a two-part logo and brand name quiz, an anagrams quiz, a round of dingbats, as well as the ultimate general knowledge quiz with 79 questions spread over nine topics, including food & drink, music, tv & film, history and language. General Knowledge Quiz Bundle ROUND 1 – LOGO QUIZ I started my quiz event off with a…
Jenga Activity for Spontaneous Speaking – Language Tip of the Week
Jenga Activity for Spontaneous Speaking Language Classroom Teaching Tip of the Week This week’s language classroom teaching activity of the week is an add-on to my recent post, Low-Prep Spontanous Speaking Activities for the Language Classroom (go and check it out later if you haven’t seen it yet). Here, you will find a brilliant, fairly low-prep ‘Jenga’* activity for spontaneous speaking, perfect for your French, German, Spanish or English language teaching classroom. I bought some Jenga* sets from Tesco a few years ago for £7 each. I’ve managed to find this unbranded Jenga* Set on Amazon for £5.94 with free delivery for orders over £20. If you haven’t got any yet, I’d…
Low Prep Speaking Activities for The Language Classroom
What low-prep speaking activities do you use in your classroom to practise spontaneous speaking? As you might know, I teach French, German and English which keeps me very busy! Although I teach many different groups of students, one common element is that the majority of students want to improve their spoken production of the language. This is a skill I have always found tricky to guide in the classroom, as I get carried away with teaching and practising all of the other skills. However, this year’s target was to develop this and it’s going well so far. In the past, I used lists of questions as speaking activities with one…
Excellent Ideas To Practise Vocabulary in the Language Classroom
Brilliant Activities To Practise Vocabulary in Language Lessons It is important to encourage students’ vocabulary development so that they have the necessary lexis available to them to succeed in communicating and understanding any language. This can be incorporated into most lessons through subtle vocabulary learning activities. This includes actively teaching vocabulary, absorbing words, picking up one or two words and trying to use them each lesson etc. How can you teach vocabulary in the classroom? One way of implementing this strategy in the language classroom is to incorporate a number of opportunities for students to reflect on words they already know, have exposure to words they should know, as well…
Reading Summary Challenge with A Twist – Tip Of The Week 8
Would an activity for reading comprehension be useful for your language classes next week? If so, this week’s teaching tip of the week ‘Reading Summary Challenge’ could be just for you! Reading Summary Challenge with a Twist Today’s teaching activity of the week is a reading summary activity with a twist. It is particularly useful for getting students to focus when reading a short article or passages of text. What’s more is that you can easily use it with beginners, intermediate and advanced learners. I used this reading summary activity with my Level 1 ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) learners in my language classroom this week. The students…
Qualified German and French Teacher – Simplifying Language Learning
