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The fifth unit (Managing classes) talks about how teachers can organize their classroom and students within that classroom, how to establish a good rapport between students themselves and between them and the teacher, reducing misbehavior and how teachers can use their body (eyes, gesture and voice) during class.
Each organization has its own advantages and disadvantages. The classroom could be organized in orderly rows (where every student can see the teacher easily but can be difficult for group activities), in a horseshoe (where the students have a feeling of belonging but some could feel a lot of pressure speaking in front of the whole class) or individual tables (which are good for individual tutoring from the teacher, but reduces the students' talk time). Students can be organized in pairs or small groups (the best for students' talk time), work individually (which helps them build self confidence) or part of the whole class. To increase student's rapport with each other, activities, debates or pair work can make them know each other.
To reduce the teacher's talk time, they can use their eyes to prompt a student: signal that it's their turn or to encourage them, they can use gesture to make instructions or parts of a lesson more clear, to help understand activities or to elicit a student. The teacher's voice sould change during a class: when speaking to the whole class, they should speak in a loud enough, clear voice and be heard by everyone, but when giving personal feedback to one particular student, their voice should be lower. Also, teachers should always be fair, punctual, prepared, polite, smiling, understanding and when giving threats, making them come true. This will decrease the risks of misbehaving students.
