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Based on experienced teachers, we should choose some activities instead of the course book. These activities following will be helpful; Establish rapport between the students (in the case of a new group) and also between the teacher and the class. Find out about the students. This will allow the teacher to be able to plan future lessons to cater to the students? interests. Find out about the students' needs/aspirations with English. This enables the teacher to tailor the course to meet the needs of the class. Find out the English level of each individual class member. Areas of difficulty with the language can be built into the course syllabus. There are a number of activities that the teacher can use for these purposes: Questionnaire/survey ? the teacher can let the students interview each other using a pre-set questionnaire and then feed back to the class. This will allow the students to get to know about each other. If the teacher monitors the activity closely, he/she will also learn a lot about the students' level of ability in the English language. A similar type of activity is 'Tell us about' which is a board game in Keep Talking (a very useful communicative activities book by Friederike Klippell). Students roll a dice and move their counter to the corresponding square and tell the class about the topic on that square. Pass the ball game. The teacher tosses a soft ball to one of the students and asks him/her any question. That student answers the question and tosses the ball to another student and asks that student a question etc. As with the other activities it is a good idea for the teacher to take part too, that way the students find out information about the teacher too, helping to establish rapport. Needs analysis. This was discussed in the previous unit with relation to individual students and business English. And warmers are also important to have more participant and draw the students attention and focusing lesson. Typical warmer activities; Hangman,pictionary,tongue twisters,memory games... About different levels problem, teacher can choose some different solutions as;different materials, same material different tasks, not to do anything, pair strongers with weakers. For large classes, tecniques of control; worksheets, pair/group work, clarity, choral repetition, appoint group leaders,dynamics. Just make sure lesson is enjoyful enough for reluctant students so more activities will be better for them. Thank you for everything you taught. Regards
