teaching english for foreign language lesson plan materials method approach procedure
Your students will be more successful if you match your teaching style to their learning styles.
How would your Christmas feel without a Christmas tree or your birthday without a cake? How romantic would your romantic dinner be without candles? Probably you agree that these little things make a lot of difference and it is with good reason why people spend time, money and energy to get the right small objects to help them put themselves and their loved ones into the right mood.
People spend a huge chunk of their everyday conversation time talking about themselves and the people they know, so the most natural thing in the world is for us to invite our students to do the same. What our students bring to the learning environment is our richest resource. But if the lives they lead are to be at the centre of the courses we teach, are we guaranteed that students will talk freely and be interested in what their fellow classmates tell them? The answer is no. So what are some of the main challenges we face when doing personalised speaking activities and how can these challenges be met?
Group discussions occur in many different formats – from very informal ones between friends to highly structured and challenging discussions included as part of a selection process. In both cases, there are a number of specific skills that we can help our students develop to become better able to contribute effectively to group discussions.
What do we mean by ‘culture’? Many teachers quote the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede’s maxim ‘Software of the Mind’, the subtitle of his 2005 book ‘Cultures and Organisations’. What culture covers is the commonly held traditions, values and ways of behaving of a particular community. It includes what we used to call ‘British and American life and institutions’, ‘daily life’ and also cultural artefacts, such as the arts or sports. This is all interesting and sometimes useful knowledge and it is often included in textbooks.
Did you ever teach your students in the canteen? Or did they learn something in the canteen? I did. And my children was so enjoy, because the can get out from the class (this is what they want to be and they are free from class) and they can eat some snacks and beverages – at this time – free. Yummy..
This is the story… The topic today is “You are What You Eat”. Children can learn so much from this topic.. an also this is never ending topic, so you can use this topic in every level of students. They are also happy because most of those activities is: EAT, making menu, cooking, and EAT again!!! In the following activities, this topic can be helpful to the school boards and the canteen it self to improve their food quality so that students do not need to worry about their food quality.
PROCEDURE
Tell your students that today the class will be held in the canteen. You will see how exited plus strange expression from your students when you said that. Don’t forget to ask your students to bring their pencil and paper. Explain that they must make an observation about some foods, with ingredients and how to cook it. Your students can ask to the chef or the canteen keeper. The output is a kind procedure texts or a recipe.
The key is that you must control your children well. If condition getting crowded and you feel enough, its time to the next step: going to the library.
Ask your students to look up about the ingredients and what is the benefits and disadvantage towards human body. They can look up either from books or from the internet as the reference. Their last project is to make a new healthy food menu in a new opening restaurant. The restaurant is dedicated for youngster at their age. The result in my class is “Meat ball sausage with cheese”, “Rock n Roll Fried Rice”, “BB King Noodle” and much of others weird unique names of food.
Do you dare to teach yous students in canteen?
1. Definition
The main factor in Teaching Students Writing is that your students must involve personally towards the experience in teaching and learning process. Encourage students participation in practice time, while at the same time fix and develop writing abilities requires certain pragmatical approach. Teacher must know about the need of students’ abilities. furthermore, teacher must be the one who facilitate students interest as the topic of writing. After that, teacher continue to focus on the topic chosen to make the students’ participation. With this certain purpose, teacher may expect a good enthusiasm and effective teaching.
Choosing the topic depends of some factors. Age can be one of the factor to choose the topic. Children usually feel happy to write about short story, pictures, their family, etc. The higher level of students require more interesting topic to write. The other factor is the purpose of the writing it self. What is exactly the output of your writing? Is it a letter, story, description? What is the social purpose of the text? That questions must be answered before you ask your students to write. For the teacher, there are still one factor, that is the teacher purpose. What is the focus of the practice? Grammar mastery, punctuation, or vocabulary building?
After those factors above can be clearly stated (at least in teacher’s mind ) teacher can focus on students participation in the writing activities.
Studying English as a second language is very important in recent years because English is international language which used in some educational books. Besides that, there are some immersion schools which obligate the students to master English well. Here are some tips to study English faster than before.
1. Build up your motivation. Motivate yourself so you will find yourself in a good spirit to study English. Higher the motivation will make the result is better.
2. Practice your English because Practice makes perfect. Try to speak English with your friend or partner as often as possible. If you are familiar or custom to speak English, it will be very good in improving your Speaking skill. Write letters to your penfriends or make articles to improve your writing skills. You can start with read some articles in newspaper or internet which written in English, so you can also improve your reading skill. Besides that, you can write the lyrics of your favorite English songs. This way can improve your listening skill and writing skill.
3. Take some action. Besides studying in formal school, you can take some course to improve your English skills or join English club. On the other way, you can start studying English by listening English songs or watching English movies. It will be fun and interesting to study English that way. Do not forget to bring dictionary or electric dictionary wherever you go. because it will help you to find difficult words.
4. Look at the wrap. There are so many thing which have a good wrapping. Basically, there is an instruction or ingredients or even caution written in English on the wrap. You can improve your English by having aware on every wrap you find. If you find some difficulty, you can open your dictionary.
5. Do not to be shy. “No body is perfect.” If there are some difficulties in studying English, you can ask your teacher or some experts. Do not be hesitate even with your friend if he/ she can answer your questions or he/ she can help to understand English.
6. Evaluate your English. You can evaluate you English skill by practicing English with some foreigners in tourist resort. basically, there are very friendly and talk active. Beside that, you can do some exercises and ask your teacher or expert to check it. If the result is far from good, you can try the steps again with more spirit.
Hopefully, this advise will help you and usable for you…. 
1. Vocabulary mastery
The vocabulary given in Pre-school students should be suitable with the topic of the lesson. for example, in the early weeks, you can ask them to learn about myself as the topic. So, the vocabulary given should be about that topic: myself.
2. Daily short expression
If you use first language as delivery language (bilingual school), you can use daily short expression, such as: Sit down please, Good morning students, How are you today, Read the book, etc.
3. Using Song and Pictures
Saya terbiasa mengajarkan vocab dengan lagu, dan biasanya lagu-lagu yang diberikan kepada siswa TK disesuaikan dengan tema yang sedang di ajarakan.
You can teach your students’ vocabulary by using song and pictures. It would be better if the song and pictures related to the topic. That would increase their motivation on learning.
4. Appreciation
Give your students appreciation in order to make them feel enjoy in your class. Even they are not doing so good in their performance to do the task. At least say thank you for every task you give.
