| For Bored, Uninterested, Reluctant EFL Learners | | | | demeonstrate vocabulary and lexical elements in |
| As you begin yet another scholastic year or higher | | | | context. Dramatize songs as a TPR activity or discuss |
| education semester, you're once again faced with the | | | | cultural elements, even ask your language learners for |
| necessity of circumventing the problems of having | | | | their ideas and input for related activities. Don't flounder |
| bored, uninterested and reluctant English as a foreign | | | | like a fish out of water, do something. Get recordings |
| language learners among the sea of faces in your EFL | | | | and musical selections from your learners too.o |
| class room. Motivating foreign language learners - | | | | Performing Dramas and Comedy |
| especially those who may not voluntarily want to be in | | | | There's a little ham in all of us, so use that quality to |
| class can become a major obstacle to your success if | | | | stimulate your EFL learners while in English or other |
| you allow conditions to degenerate. Don't let that | | | | foreign language classes. Your "dramas" can be as |
| happen. Fight back and win over those learners using | | | | simple as two-party enacted dialogues or as complex |
| these eight dynamic EFL activity types your learners | | | | as fully-staged productions lasting two or more acts. |
| simply won't refuse.o English Language Learning | | | | The key is to elicit the interests of your learners then |
| Games | | | | build on those interests using the media of drama.o |
| All of your English language learners ju8st love to play | | | | Watching Movies and Videos |
| games. How do I know? Because that's true virtually | | | | If you're not too keen on using full-length features in |
| everywhere worldwide, that's how. Any game you | | | | your foreign language class room, no problem. Just use |
| know can be converted and played in English or | | | | selected, dramatic clips from the movies to engage |
| whatever the target language you're teaching is. From | | | | your learners in the scenes and settings. Survey their |
| Tic-Tac-Toe (noughts and crosses) or "Tricky", to | | | | favorite actors, actresses and entertainers - then use |
| checkers, Monopoly, Sorry and a seemingly unending | | | | that info to make insider-informed decisions on what to |
| slew of other TPR and board games, playing them in | | | | prepare. Movies and scene clips can be great for |
| English can be an almost effortless way to motivate | | | | dialogue practice, illustration vocabulary, grammar and |
| and reach even the most reluctant learners.o Using | | | | other lexical elements in context. |
| Music in the EFL Classroom | | | | We'll continue this theme with even more dynamic EFL |
| English and foreign language learners love music in a | | | | or other foreign language learning activities your |
| wide variety of types and formats. So use music | | | | learners won't refuse in part two of this article post. So |
| throughout class room activities and as an activity in | | | | see you then. |
| itself. Time activities with popular songs, lip-sunc, | | | | |