In ILP Lessons, they reccommend you use between 6 and 8 different objects per lesson. That way, you have different things you can talk about and get the children to learn different words in the English language.
There are also things called non-items they want you to use while teaching, which are objects used in the lesson but aren't actually necessary for the activity.
I think I have done a pretty good job of using Non-Items.
EXAMPLE 1:
During my last Level 4 class, I was teaching them what rhymes and poems were. They weren't really understanding what a poem was, so I told them that songs are poems. That made them even more confused, so I asked if anyone had an iPod with them. After each and every one of my students pulled out either an iPhone or an iPod Touch, (making me feel mediocre with my 3rd generation iPod nano that I've had since 2007) I took one from a student, and searched for the first English song I could find that would be popular enough for everyone in the class to have heard.
The one I found?
Fireflies by Owl City. A personal favorite of mine.
Everyone knew the song, so after every few phrases I would pause the song and have the students tell me the words they heard that rhymed.
After that, everyone was a pro.
EXAMPLE 2:
This one may be a little interesting, but no judgements allowed.
While teaching comparison words to my Level 2 class that I now teach with Andrew (sup buddy!) I tried to look around the room for something I could use to demonstrate 'heavy' and 'light'. There were 2 books in my bag that would work perfectly.
There are also things called non-items they want you to use while teaching, which are objects used in the lesson but aren't actually necessary for the activity.
I think I have done a pretty good job of using Non-Items.
EXAMPLE 1:
During my last Level 4 class, I was teaching them what rhymes and poems were. They weren't really understanding what a poem was, so I told them that songs are poems. That made them even more confused, so I asked if anyone had an iPod with them. After each and every one of my students pulled out either an iPhone or an iPod Touch, (making me feel mediocre with my 3rd generation iPod nano that I've had since 2007) I took one from a student, and searched for the first English song I could find that would be popular enough for everyone in the class to have heard.
The one I found?
Fireflies by Owl City. A personal favorite of mine.
Everyone knew the song, so after every few phrases I would pause the song and have the students tell me the words they heard that rhymed.
After that, everyone was a pro.
EXAMPLE 2:
This one may be a little interesting, but no judgements allowed.
While teaching comparison words to my Level 2 class that I now teach with Andrew (sup buddy!) I tried to look around the room for something I could use to demonstrate 'heavy' and 'light'. There were 2 books in my bag that would work perfectly.
This was the first one. I was taking it home to help my host-sister Alena learn to read English. (More on that later....)
The second book was.....
Well...
Don't ask me why I used that book. It was the only one I could find.
On to the next part of my day...
I have to give credit to my host-sister, Alena. She loves English and gets so excited to talk to me with the little bit that she knows. She asked me (through her translator aunt) to help me teach her to read better.
Before I came to Russia, I learned how to read in Russian. Not that I understand what I am saying, but I can pronounce words I see and read them to myself with no comprehenion of what they actually mean.
Anyway, for knowing how the Russian alphabet works and helping Alena learn to read, she is a little trooper. For being 7 years old, she was doing incredible reading the Dr. Seuss alphabet book. There were some stumbles, for example the letter B is pronounce like V in Russian and she would get those confused, but her youthful brain is packing a lot of basic language in there.
Go Alena!
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