Pop Bottle Race Car
Teaching is much more than just regurgitating information from a text book... or at least it should be.
After leaving the comfy confines of the Land of Maple Syrup over half a decade ago, I have been earning my keep by teaching speakers of other language to be speaking the good english (how many mistakes does that sentence have?).
The Final Product
How to Make English Fun
After a whole lot of trial and error along with my own experience learning a new language, I have fun one universal truth, people learn and retain a new language when they are having fun. For instance, if I am teaching a young boy about colors and we are just reading text from a book, the boy will likely lose interest fast, but if I can relate colors to something the boy is interested in, for example transformers robots, then he is more likely to stay engaged and enjoy the lesson.
So, to the point of this post. The last several months at my English academy in South Korea, I have have been trying to spice things up, creating more engaging English lessons for the students and show them that learning English doesn't have to be about studying grammar from a book.
So once a month all the students get to partake in a 'special' class, where we do science experiments, build things, cook things and do anything that doesn't involve studying from a book.
Inspired by @bigbear and her post about some fun things for children to build, I decided to give it a go with my students.
Here is one of my students Betty, testing out her creation
It was an overwhelming success. The kids had a great time, learned some new vocabulary, learned that you don't need a cell phone to have fun, and most importantly enjoyed speaking English in a way that wasn't considered studying.
If anyone has any ideas for future classes I would love some feedback
Woff, woff!
Hello @jasonshick, Nice to meet you!
I'm a guide dog living in KR community. I can see that you want to contribute to KR community and communicate with other Korean Steemians. I really appreciate it and I'd be more than happy to help.
KR tag is used mainly by Koreans, but we give warm welcome to anyone who wish to use it. I'm here to give you some advice so that your post can be viewed by many more Koreans. I'm a guide dog after all and that's what I do!
Tips:
Unfortunately, Google Translate is terrible at translating English into Korean. You may think you wrote in perfect Korean, but what KR Steemians read is gibberish. Sorry, even Koreans can't understand your post written in Google-Translated Korean.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy Steemit without getting downvotes. Because Steemit is a wonderful place. See? Korean Steemians are kind enough to raise a guide dog(that's me) to help you!
Woff, woff! 🐶
Hey @krguidedog, please remove your spam comments from my post, if you read my post you would see that it is all about Korea, I am not using google translate and I am not abusing any tags. Here is some advice for you, if you want to help make the Korean community a better place, don't spam your garbage comments and then upvote them, your in authenticity smells like shit
Cheer Up!
Hey there,
Actually, I have almost the same kind of approach when teaching English, my classes were like little festivals ( dancing, watching youtube videos, traveling stories)
@TheUnmentionables
Making learning process as fun is a good sign of teacher :D
Teaching English as a Foreign language is high up up on my list of things I'd like to do at this crossroads in my life. Now I know the secret to success - make it FUN. #unmentionables
Congratulations @jasonshick! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Award for the total payout received
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP
STOP
@jasonshick got you a $1.33 @minnowbooster upgoat, nice! (Image: pixabay.com)
Want a boost? Click here to read more!
This post has received a 0.39 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
hi you can follow me