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This unit has a lot of good learning point to take into consideration while teaching ESL students. Teacher most understand that the important part of a lesson occurs during the first few minutes. If the activity engages students right away, you know there will be enough “sparks” to fly for the rest of the lesson and the job will be relatively easy. If the activity however is not challenging, repetitious, (”We’ve done this before!” Sound familiar?) there will be “lulls” that more often than not, result in discipline problems, as we saw in the first video.
The key of course, is to keep the “sparks flying,” but it all really depends on how the teachers can spark up their classroom right away. There are many ways to start a session in a positive manner, as for example by aiming for open ended activities that generate more student responses. Good types of open-ended activities are brainstorming and prediction which are perfect for mixed ability classes; or, by starting the first stage of vocabulary teaching having students notice the words. Flashcards are ideal for introducing word families and for pointing out capital and small letters, consonants, and other sound blends.
