Creative teaching for uncreative teachers
- 1. Creative teaching for uncreative teachers! Catherine Morley British Council Alcal叩 de Henares www.britishcouncil.org 1
- 3. Starting and finishing lessons Using basic materials Exploiting photos www.britishcouncil.org
- 4. Starting lessons Ball to recycle vocabulary / practise questions Three things that went well today Vocabulary bag activities www.britishcouncil.org 4
- 5. Starting lessons How do YOU normally begin lessons? Tell a partner. www.britishcouncil.org 5
- 17. Basic classroom materials Mini-whiteboards Tip! For team games with MWBs, give each team a different colour pen and call them the green team etc. Much easier to keep score! Phonemic script game Vocabulary quizzes Liven up grammar exercises (read out the sentences in a different order!) Collocation sentences www.britishcouncil.org 17
- 18. Basic classroom materials Mini-whiteboards How do you / could you use MWBs in your lessons? www.britishcouncil.org 18
- 20. Basic classroom materials scraps of paper www.britishcouncil.org 20
- 21. Basic classroom materials Dice Elicit 6 topics students throw a dice and speak for one minute 6 sentences / questions using a grammar structure that you want students to practise www.britishcouncil.org 21
- 22. 1. A food or drink you didnt use to like (but you do now). 2. Something you used to do every day when you were 10 years old. 3. A hobby you used to have. 4. A school you used to go to. 5. Something your parents used to make you do that you didnt like. 6. Something you didnt use to like about your school. www.britishcouncil.org 22
- 23. Basic classroom materials scraps of paper / dice How do you / could you use scraps of paper / dice in your lessons? www.britishcouncil.org 23
- 26. Photos Shes in her late 60s. Shes medium-height and overweight. She looks happy. She has long, grey hair.
- 27. She cant be your sister because she doesnt look like you. She might be your friend because youre having a drink together. www.britishcouncil.org 27
- 28. Photos Could you use students own mobile phones in your teaching context? If not, what are the alternatives? What other activities can you think of using photos from students mobile phones? www.britishcouncil.org 28
- 30. Finishing lessons Do you do anything special at the end of your lessons? www.britishcouncil.org 30