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[Boodleheimer]

Ideas Kindly Requested for Kids Who Don't Give a Crap About English!

very low-level.

all will be appreciated.

thanks
KWhitehead

[happeningthang]

I'd try to bring in something new, whatever that might mean for these kids.

I used a karaoke program on my laptop to an enthusiastic resoponse, movies with cloze exercises, quizzes, gameshow format classes.

Whenever I've had a difficult class, I gave them one lesson of a gameshow, movie etc and then used that as motivation for study later on. As long as I deliver on what I promise, I've had consistent positive responses.

[nobbyken]

I have been trying to teach some words at advanced English summer club, as I suspect they are used to watching movies at camp!

There are various flashcards round the room, and I may give a wordsearch after showing a powerpoint of interesting new words in the wordsearch.
The first table to finish the wordsearch gets a bonus (sweets if you have a bag). This greatly improves motivation, while having them work as a desk and not individually benefits he weaker students.

Another one I use is to ask questions, while children guess the word.
Could be either a spelling hint or a related use. The winning student gets to advance, pick a square or spin the wheel for points for their team(desk). I use the powerpoint activities from
http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html . Suggested by ddeubel originally.
Some prep work may be required, but not too much. None required for spin the wheel, if questions are too advanced for them, try hangman where if a letter is succesfully chosen, or a word guessed then they spin the wheel for points for their team.

Again, you can give small token prizes to the winners.
I found this to raise awareness of English words, phrases & general interest as they compete against each other.
If you have low numbers, the teams are boys against the girls.

Get the kids working, you just control. They can have fun, getmotivated and learn stuff which could be a springboard into a proper lesson.

That is the way I try with dead camp students, and they seem to lap it up.