Think about it...

If we want our learners use the language to express their opinions and ideas and, in short to communicate them with people, teachers should develop activities according to this objective. 

We have to take into account what our aim is when we are designing our activities.

What do you think about that? 

Are you agree with the boy in the picture?

Anxiety in the classroom

Many students become anxious just before a test and/or they get nervous when they have to give a prepared speech or presentation in front of their partners. Such temporary feelings of anxiety are instances of state anxiety. However, some students are anxious a good part of the time, even when the situation is not an evaluation, for that reason, we have to take into account some tips to achieve a good and relaxed atmosphere. 

We suggest some tips to prevent the anxiety:

• Educate and inform the students about anxiety
• Provide an open-communication classroom, where all the students should participate and all the ideas are good to learn
• Teach and discuss the positive strategies and techniques to be relaxed with the students
• Allow students opportunities to practice and apply useful strategies to get over the anxiety. For instance, allow students to use stress balls during class or listen to soothing music while taking exams. Using this strategies may reduce tension and anxiety in the classroom.
• Model positive ways to prevent and manage anxiety
• Provide an effective praise
• Teach students to focus their attention on a specific object

Finally, we suggest an interesting video about "learned helplessness", in which we can prove how students feel when some students in the class know how to do an activity  and they do not. In this video, the teacher gives different exams (one very difficult, and another one very easy). Then, s/he asks the students; who have done the first question, and the students with the difficult exam get surprised when they see that some students done it (without know that they are different questions). After that, the teacher gives the same exam to the whole class, and, even doing the easy one, some students do not know the answer. It is possible that this student group after this situation are frustated... What do you think? 

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What do you think?

We have found some pictures on the internet.

What do you think about them? Are you agree or disagree?

It is probable, we need to be aware of the importance of change traditional methods of teaching English. Students can learn the rules, grammar, vocabulary, etc. through the use of the language and through interesting activities. It is not necessary doing boring tasks which do not motivate our students.

What do you think? We want to know your opinion!

Note: Click on the pictures to make them bigger!

RAP

CREATE A RAP WITH STUDENTS

  

  

Would you like to sing a rap with your students?   It's possible!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check this out!

This is a fun way to teach 'phrasal verbs'.

TWIDUCATE !!

In this post we introduce a resource that we found quite interesting. Nowadays, social networking is something that interests many students and teachers, so this resource allows us to communicate in a space which is similar  to a social network but in a controlled manner.

https://es.tiching.com/link/70643

This resource introduces a Twitter-like tool designed specifically for teachers. This is a way for students and teachers to be communicated inside and outside the classroom, taking the advantage of social networking interaction with our students and with the guarantees of privacy that demands any educational social network. It allows for easy management of content by the teacher and the proper administration of the network to share content and resources to students.

Now we show you some pictures of the resource, so you can see how it works:

Resources and materials

If you want your students to learn to speak English and practice the language, it is advisable to look for some interesting and interactive ways to teach English.

Children get bored with the structured English language classes in which the main aim is to teach rules, grammar, and phonics without making them enjoyable. In addition to that, if we teach them isolated words, probably, they won’t be motivated. Teachers should teach real English in a natural way, thus, students will be aware of the importance of learn a new language and how useful can be it!

In fact, some of the best ways to teach English to young learners include story telling, drama, songs, games, etc. All these activities of teaching English could be high effective, and they will be learning the vocabulary and phonetic in a better way.

We suggest some resources and materials to learn English in Primary Education.

SONGS

-  " Head, shoulders, knees and toes" - CLICK HERE

-      "The wheels on the bus"- CLICK HERE

GAMES

- http://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/vocabulary/

-  http://gamestolearnenglish.com/
- http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/  

Examples(links): Weather Maz - How much is this?

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

- http://www.usingenglish.com/
-  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources

Classrooms around the world

Very interesting!

Would you like to know schools from different parts of the world?

Note: If you want to read more information about this, click here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gallery/2012/sep/14/schools-around-the-world-children#/?picture=395983374&index=0