1. English Service Project September, 2014

2.   TPR is great for beginners and more advanced  Beginners can demonstrate understanding  More advanced students can act out language  Most learners, particularly guards, tend to be kinesthetic Total Physical Response

3.   Practice basic commands:  Get up  Sit down  Bring me a bottle of water  Help me  Please wait  Simon says is a good game  Demonstrate understanding through fingers TPR Ideas - Basic

4.   Act out a scene – once you’ve built up trust with a class  Have students prepare a scene  E.g., a teacher has forgotten her ID  Improvs TPR – More Advanced

5.   Win, Lose or Draw  Charades  Always explain the game first  Always demonstrate the games first  Check for questions TPR - Games

6.   Draw a visual of a word (beginners)  Define the word and draw a picture (intermediate)  Describe the word orally (advanced) Vocabulary Games

7.   New words to a well-known tune  E.g., Preposition song  E.g., le verbe avoir  Cloze exercise: missing words in the song  High frequency words  Grammatical structures Music

8.   For the age?  For the culture?  Do you know what you’re trying to teach with it?  A game is fun – but it’s not necessarily learning.  Are you reinforcing vocabulary?  Building grammatical structure?  Improving fluency? Is it appropriate?