Have I been under a lot of stress due to some unfair changes in my new job. Not to mention that on top of that, a class I was teaching got cancelled due to groundless complaints from immature students. Was I teaching a basic 5 class, and handing out work  sheets almost every lesson so as to reinforce what my students were learning. Still and all, they were not satisfied whatsoever. On the contrary, they complained because they said that the content of the worksheets was not on the book. Of course it was not, they were exercise sheets. Albeit, it is impossible to reason with mindless students who also thought I had to create a rule where there was none in verbs followed by gerunds of infinitives. Anyhow, I feel as if this class was wrested from me owing to the lack of sense from my supervisor.

 

Now that I have got it out of my system, let us just moving on to the topic I am tackling today.

As have probably heard from me before, I have been teaching children English for a few months already. Needless to say that it has not been an easy task. Albeit, did I want to share with you some ideas so as to tackle this issue. For instance, warm-ups or lead-ins such as jokes and fun games are a good way so as to get the class ready for the lesson. But what to share with the student?

 

Well, there is a game called "I spy with my little eye" whose rules I am going to explain in a video I am going to share. It is used by teachers to either warm up the class or wrap it up after an stressful day. Not to mention that it is an easy game to play that does not intellectually challenge young learners to an overwhelming degree. Thus, making it fun and does not only benefit the brighter students at the expense of the less capable ones.

 

 

Lastly, I would like to add that even though there are lots of more games and activities such as "20 questions" and "Simon says", I just wanted to focus on one for this post. Even so, will I be talking about some more in the upcoming posts. Remember, this sort of games not only make you think better of boring your students to death with grammar lessons. but they also give you the chance to kill some time when you are running out of ideas by the end of a class. May our eagerness to come up with new ideas for our students not be tempered by monotony.