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[sistersarah]

i don't know if anyone else has these, but on mon, wed and fri, i have a bunch of 25 min classes. by the time the kids get in and seated and the late ones straggle in, there's 20 min left. i'm given no guidance from my management as to what to do with the kids during these very short classes - i don't think they care. so far, i've just been reviewing what we covered in their 50 min class of that week, or maybe do a short grammar lesson from "up and away" or something. (most of the kids see me for two classes -- one 50 min class and one 25 min class -- it's messed up, but i smile and nod).

it's getting boring and repetitive. does anyone have any good ideas, interesting activities, for 20 min classes?

thanks

sister.

[humanuspneumos]

I had those and it was not a pic-nic (works-out to something like 10 a day and one-two 50's). Tiring.

1. Anyway- first 2 minutes: settling down or you writing something on the board that's relevant to what you do next.


2. Pass out short stories (photocopied) (3 minutes- 17 to go if you used 5 already).

3. You read the short story- they repeat. (3-5 minutes- 12 to go)

4. They read the short story together (3-5 minutes- 7 to go)

Team one and Team Two: divide the class and have one member of their team compete with the other.

5. Anything below using the team idea

Ask questions from the story Give points for correct answers. (7 minutes used up)

Listening time: have them come to the board and spell words you recite from the story. (7 minutes used up)

Listening/Spelling/Speaking time: you spell out a word and they say what you spelt (7 minutes used up)

Speed reading: Team one student reads the first word- team two student reads the second and so on. Whoever doesn't error first gets a point.

There are tons of short stories on the web to print off. I used stories from

http://www.eslroad.com/Stories_files/index.htm and I printed them.


Students rarely get tired of team one/ team two. I used it for 24 months in a row with the same students and they still begged for more.

[Gwangjuboy]

[sistersarah]

thanks so much. that's a great idea.