Your First Class Abroad: How to Set Rules, Goals and Discipline
Your first class teaching is your one and only chance to help your students feel relaxed in learning their subject matter. Start here.
Your first class teaching is your one and only chance to help your students feel relaxed in learning their subject matter. Start here.
These free talking topics have been tested to keep students engaged. Print them off. Cut them up. Put them in a hat. Select a topic.
In this connect the dots activity sheet, they start at 1 and finish at 52. And in the end, they get to draw a picture of something.
From simple flags like Japan and the United States. All the way to more challenging flags like Cambodia and Swaziland. Can you identify the flags of the world in the flags quiz?
Everyone writes down the name of a famous person on a sticky note and pass it to the left. Each player sticks the note on his/her forehead and ask “Yes” or “No” questions to find out who they are.
It’s important to have a good bank of emotions vocabulary. In pairs, place a pin in the center of the chart and spin it. The pin will point to a specific emotion. Have you ever felt that emotion?
Emotions should always be a common theme because students have a hard time expressing themselves! In the emoticon worksheet, students match emotions with emoticons.
The “Have You Ever Game” is a great way to kick-start your class because it can really get your students moving. As you make “have you ever” questions, students pick the side of the room based on their answer.
Roll the dice, make a question and keep track of points. Practice who, what, when, where, why and have you ever questions based on the dice roll.
Ask students to write down one culturally significant item about their country. Collect and assemble entries in a cultural dictionary.