RHYTHM IN ENGLISH

Stress important words like
    Adjetives
    Adverbs
    "verbos mayores"
    Question words
    Negatives
    Nouns
  Don't Stress  words like
    Articles
    Auxiliary verbs
    Conjunctions
    Prepositions
    Pronouns
    The verb to be

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Twisters
Practice  twisters with your student for bettering the pronunciation. Example:

There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

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Confidence

Confidence

Many students lack confidence when using English. Confidence building is a trick of auto-suggestion. Get your students to start every lesson by repeating the following phrase five times in chorus.

EVERY DAY,

IN EVERY WAY,

I’M GETTING BETTER AND BETTER!

Surprisingly, you will find that your students will improve and get more confident.

Reading 2

Reading

When reading any ‘authentic’ text, ask the students who wrote the text? What do you know or what can you infer about the writer? Who was the intended reader? What do you know or what can you infer about the intended reader? Questions like this help the students to see written texts as real pieces of communication rather than just comprehen­sion exercises.

Thinking Time

 Thinking Time

How much time do we waste in class waiting for students to respond to a question? Robert O’Neill says that we should give students time to construct their answers to our questions. He suggests writing questions on the board and asking students to think about them before asking them to respond. Alternatively, students can be asked to discuss the questions in pairs. Although this takes time, it will also save time because the answers will be more fluent and accurate.