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Zero preparation, fun revision Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert EINSTEIN, scientist
➜ Jumping words
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1. Learning with fun is the best kind of learning. 2. I think that CLIL classes should be about co-operative learning. 3. I want my students to be more autonomous. 4. In CLIL classes systematic content revision is essential. 5. My students sometimes perceive revision as testing and they feel pressured. 6. My students forget words from class to class. 7. Some of my students know the meaning of a word and use it in English, but don’t know the equivalent in their mother tongue. 8. Extra revision exercises mean more preparation time for teachers.
ards or flashcards
rdc 1 Put 10 wothe board, randomly, high on in any order.
2 Divide your students into small groups and tell them to choose a captain.
on the board
3 Say one of the wordths er tongue. in the students’ mo
4 Captains run to the board,
jump and take the correc t word.
5 For each correctly taken word the group gets a point.
When you finish with the 10 words and start the next round, tell your students to change the captain so that everybody can participate.
Classroom management tips If you answered “yes!” to at least 5 out of 8 statements, have a look at the proposed fun-forstudents, easy-for-the teacher activities. They put students at the heart of the learning process and encourage their autonomy as learners. They also require zero or almost zero preparation for the teacher!
◗ Instead of using the students’ mother tongue,
you can give your learners a description of the vocabulary item in English. ◗ Another excellent idea is to choose a group of three students who act as ‘word describers’. The describers describe the word, without actually saying it. 75