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NATURAL ENGLISH - Quality Resources for TEFL Schools NATURAL ENGLISH - Quality Resources for English Schools. Out of the box TEFL Lesson Scenarios. Interesting lessons based on videos, radio broadcasts and articles aimed at native speakers. Ready to use worksheets, activities, even suggested homework!

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3 GREAT ICEBREAKERS FOR STUDENTS WITH LOW LEVEL OF ENGLISH
Whenever you are starting with the new class or just want to get your new class going, it is always good to have a set of tested icebreakers ready.
As you are working with a group with a limited vocabulary, the main goal here is to allow students to use whatever they have and still keep their attention on you.
Here are 3 I noticed work extremely well. What would you add?
*****************Adjectives Web******** (good for vocabulary revision)
The teacher writes a word from the unit on the board and invites students to come and write adjectives that describe that word. The adjectives can take the form of a web, working its way away from the center word. students can then expand the web by adding new nouns that can also be described by the adjectives. For example, Car -> Fast -> Rocket. As the web expands, students can see similarities between words that they may not have previously connected.
****************Board Relay****************
The teacher creates several columns on the whiteboard labelled "A", "B”, "C", "D", etc. students are divided into two teams and stand at the back of the classroom with the T. Each team needs a different color marker. When the teacher shouts out a category (animals, jobs, places, etc.) one member from each team runs to the board and writes something from that category in one of the columns. The students then run back, give the board marker to someone from their team and that student runs to board to do the same. This goes on for a short time (1-3 minutes) and the team with the most words wins a point. The process continues when the teacher shouts out a new category.
****************Chain of Words****************
This activity is a good motivation booster for a new class. The teacher begins to recite a list of words that seem random to the students at first. All of the words begin with the last letter of the previous word, however. Once the students pick up on the connection, the teacher invites students to continue the list.

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3 GREAT TIME FILLERS FOR STUDENTS WITH GOOD ENGLISH
What would you add?
Every English teacher has experienced that stressful moment when you realise that you’re completely out of lesson material with fifteen minutes left in class. Or maybe the lesson just does not go according to the plan and there is no point of introducing new material just before the break or end of the day. Or maybe students' (and sometimes teacher's) level of energy is so low that it desperately needs some activity to get those brain cells working again.

Here are 3 I noticed work extremely well. What would you add?

********End Story********
The teacher tells the students that they are going to create a story, but the end has already been written. The task of the students will be to figure out how to get to the given ending. Some example endings could include:
-> …and I knew from that point on that I would never see her again.
-> …this truly is a crazy world we live in.
-> …my family will never believe me.

********Different Uses******** (good for vocabulary revision)
This a great time filler that usually catches the students off guard. The teacher tells the class that when she calls out an object (should be a concrete noun), the students have one minute to think of all of the different uses for that item. After about five or six rounds, the teacher can ask the students to share what they have come up with.

********Optimists and Pessimists******** (nice for the end of the lesson)

For this activity, the teacher divides the class into either pairs or two teams. One side is the “optimist” side, and the other belongs to the “pessimists”. The optimists start by giving a statement from an optimist point of view and then the other counters that statement with a pessimist point of view. The pessimists then come up with a different statement presented from a pessimist point of view and the optimists have to counter with the optimist side. The pattern continues for about five minutes.

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Exciting ways to make writing interactive [Teaching Tip] - TEFL Org UK 1. Working on different aspects of a joint project For example, the whole class works on different articles to go on the front page of a newspaper, with an editorial team deciding which story should go at the top, giving feedback on length to make sure it all fits and so on. 2. Gathering the…

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Myth-Busting: "If I Just Had Better Students" How to avoid falling into the trap of thinking student success has only to do with the students.