1. How to Teach English “More” Creatively
Joe Yi-ming Lee
Taipei Municipal Zhongzheng Senior High School

2. I. English Teaching in My EFL Classroom
Teacher-centered?
Individual differences
Multiple intelligences?
Diversity
Comprehension checks/Recycling
Eclectic teaching

3. II. Common Activities (Group/Pair/Individual Work)
poster presentation (Create your own nation/Taiwan)
chants and songs (Grammar?/Culture?/Project?/Karaoke Party/lyrics training/Translation)
dramas/skits /YouTube Project (dialogues)
TPR activities/games (earthquake/big cross, stand up, spelling bee, Crazy ABC, Group Imagination, PowerPoint games, Who’s smarter than…?, exit slip, ReadWriteThink)
festival activities (gingerbread/Christmas Shoes/Halloween Quiz/Halloween Games)
picture-drawing (picture books/comics/story)
E-teaching: CMI (film/movie trailers, Jeremy Lin, OMG, Mad TV, Kids’ Reaction, Google Labs,WeTopia, Pen pals, Skype, Travel Itinerary)

4. Extra Activities Ten Useful Sentences in Daily Life (Each Week)
Reading Novels
(Christmas in Prague/Red-headed League)
Weekly Journal
Online Homework
(diligentjoe.wordpress.com)
Language Corner
Magic English (National Education Radio)

5. Teaching Procedures Warm-up & Pre-reading --- Quizzes
--- Jokes/Tongue Twisters
--- Picture/Photo Reading
--- Q&A/ Kuso English
--- Task Completion (Poster Presentation/Skits)
--- Dictation
--- YouTube Film Clips (Mad TV/ Table7 /Annoying Orange 1 2)
--- Share Your Personal Experiences
--- Storytelling (voice over)
--- Polish Your Speech
--- How-to
--- ello
--- ESL video

6. Presentation
--- Vocabulary teaching (sentence-making, creating a story,
rotation, images, Google, free rice, sounds)
--- Explanation of the paragraphs
--- Emphasis on the reading strategies
(skimming/scanning, story map, questions for discussion,
read-look up-and-say activity, peer teaching, rotation )
--- Explanation of sentence patterns (Grammar in Context 1
2 3)
--- interaction, drawing, visual aids, Google Map, students’ demonstration

7. Extension Activities
--- the connection between reading and
writing (New Year Resolution/My
Dream/Daily Schedule/My Hobby/English Journal/
Group Writing/Creating a New Ending/Love Letter)
speaking (McDonald’s, Western Restaurant, Create
Their Personal Dialogues: Phrases/Idioms)
---arcade games /arcade town

8. Wrap-up
--- comprehension check
--- singing a song
--- interview (interviewer/interviewee)
Your Press Conference
--- translation practices (Fortune Bags)
--- a short speech/report/ debate
--- toastmaster (Agenda)

9. The End!