How to teach a language to beginners? (Russian or any other)?
Hello! At my university I will have to do my 3 weeks practice now. I have never taught before and I will have my first lesson of Russian language in a high-school soon. I would like to do my best and not to bore the children as they are very motivated at the moment. I will teach 9th(beginners) and 11th(intermediate level) grade. I would like to ask if you have any ideas for some games, pair or group activities. Maybe you remember some nice methods from your school or language course. Thank you in advance!
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TPR–total physical response (for beginners). (Google)
TPRS-entire method–works wonderfully and engages students
info gap activities–prepare a master with information about your topic (what people look like, where they’re going). White out half the information on each of two copies. Give half the students one sheet and half the other. They speak to each other to find the rest of the info. (google information gap)
flyswatter–write a lot of vocab. on board or project lots of pictures. You call the target language word and they rush to slap the English with a flyswatter or you call the English and vice versa.
Team picture telephone. Have a good picutre using vocab. you’re working with. several kids look at picture. Run to next person on team and explain picture. That person runs to next person and explains picture. That person runs to last person who draws. At each stage students can run back and forth to the next person, but not all the way. Target language only. Fun chaos.
There are lots and lots of websites with games and activities for second langauge learning. Try eslcafe.com (easily adapted to different langauges.) Google Foreign Language methods, or FLTeach (language teachers listsev) and access the archives. Or join FLTeach and ask your question on list.