Warm-up, Presentation, Practice

Warm - up
A warm-up is very necessary for the following reasons:
It wakes up the ss & gets them into the right mood for learning English.
It can be a brief vocabulary review before starting a new text
It can be a link between what has gone before and what is coming after.
With new classes at the beginning of a course or the school year, it can help ss to know each other
Some Practical Tips
Choose a suitable activity for your class (time, level, language content
Prepare your materials in sufficient quantity.
Read through the procedure section and note down the main steps (if necessary). Think about how you are going to introduce the activity and whether your ss will need any extra help.
Decide which role you are going to adopt (joining, helping or observing?)
Make a note of any problems arising as well as your own comments. You can then modify the activity when you use it again
Some Common Warm-up Activities
Crosswords - Kim’s game
Bingo - Shark attack
Feel the object - Pelmanism
Find someone who - Wordsquare
Miming - Simon says
Guessing games - Networks
Don’t say yes or no - Jumbled words
Back(s) to the board - Sentence starters
Presentation
New vocabulary
New grammar
New language function
Some Suggested Techniques
for Presenting vocabulary
Visuals
Mime
Realia
Situation/Explanation
Example
Synonym/Antonym
Translation
Some Suggested Techniques
for Presenting Structures
Dialogue
Storytelling
Realia
Pictures
Listening/Reading texts
Steps for Presenting a New Structure
State the purpose of the lesson
Pre-teach vocabulary
Set the scene, introduce the characters
Present the target language in context
Check if ss have understood (using comprehension questions, recall,etc.)
Elicit the model sentence(s)
T repeats as a model
Ss repeat chorally then individually
T writes the model sentence(s) on the B.B in a sentence
Ss copy into their books
T checks meaning, form, use and pronunciation

Guidelines for an Effective Presentation
Be well prepared with suitable, meaningful and easy-to-understand presentations. They should be memorable
Introduce the new target language in context
Involve ss from the beginning by setting the scene
Present one or two new structures at a time
Link old and new language
Check meaning, use, form and pronunciation
An effective presentation should take between 10 and 15 minutes.
Presentation on its own is not enough. It should be followed by practice

Practice
Controlled practice/Drill
Less-controlled practice
Free practice/Production
Controlled practice/Drill

Repetition drill using picture cues/word cues
Substitution drill
Question-Answer drill
True/False Repetition drill
Transformation drill
Features of a Good Drill

A drill should be meaningful
A drill should be consistent and use the same grammatical pattern for all the utterances
A drill should have a topic so that all the cues and utterances belong together
A drill should have between 6 and 8 cues
An exchange isn’t only a question and an answer, it can be any type of statement and a response
A drill should move from T-whole class to open pairs and closed pairs
Practice Activities – From Controlled to Free
Thank You
Questions?