Teaching past simple to teenagers

Teaching past simple to teenagers

Teenagers have the capacity to acquire a language much faster because of their ability to think abstractly. For teenagers, the content must be highly engaging and relevant. If they miss the point they often will quickly lose interests.

3x5 cards

This type of material is very easy to make and use in the classroom. There are millions of language activities you can do with plain 3x5 cards. Emily Thrush says she could happily teach English with nothing more than these cards and some markers or pens! Some of their uses include: flash cards, concentration games, matching games, word order practice, pair work, information-gap activities, and on and on.

The music

The materials chosen for the instruction should be developed always thinking about the needs, tastes and interests of students, in addition it must be interesting and motivating. The music can be a resource of teaching very important because the teenagers are always singing and they feel uninhibited when they do it. With music they can development both listening and comprehension as well as speaking skill and can expand their vocabulary, speech, fluency and their confidence to speak in the target language

Here another great song to learn simple past tense by listening and of course by singing: Mountain Sound

 

Audio Visual Materials:

These materials offer many opportunities to teachers to introduce foreign language into the class artificially, and the teacher must invest a lot of time to select the most appropriate material for adolescent students.

There are a lot of good and reliable audiovisual resources that help us to teach any topic, so the only we need is having the disposition of that resource according to the topic we are going to teach.

Bibliographic references:

• Saumell, V. (2014, 01). What are your top 5 tips for teaching teenagers? British Council. Obtenido 04, 2016, de https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/vicky-saumell/what-are-your-top-5-tips-teaching-teenagers-vicky-saumell

•  Schaetzel, K y Young, S. (2007). Content standards for teaching adult English language learners. Retrieved from: http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_22_no_3/Content_standards_for_teaching.pdf