What if?

What if?

1. Students are all at different levels?

   • Use different materials/technology
   • Do different tasks with the same material/technology
   • Ignore the problem.
   • Use the students

2. The class is very big?

   • Use worksheets
   • Use pairwork and groupwork
   • Use chorus reaction
   • Use chorus reaction
   • Use group leaders
   • Think about vision and acoustic
   • Use the size of the group to your advantage

3. Students keep using their own language?

   • Talk to them about the issue.
   • Encourage them to use English appropiately
   • Only respond to English use.
   • Create an English environment
   • Keep reminding thhem.

4. Students don´t do homewor?

   • Ask the students.
   • Make it fun.
   • Respect homework
   • Make post-homework productive.

5. Students are uncooperative?

   • Remember that it´s "just a job"
   • Deal with the behaviour, not the student.
   • Be even-handed.
   • Go forward
   • Use any means of communication
   • Enlist help
   • Prevention or cure:
   • Language-learning contract

6. Students don´t want to talk?

   • Use pairwork
   • Allow them to speak in a controlled way at first.
   • Use "acting out" and reading aloud
   • Use role-play.
   • use recording

7. Students don´t understand the audio track?

   • Prview interview questions
   • Use "jigsaw listening"
   • One task only
   • Play a/the first segment only.
   • Play the listing in chunks.
   • Use the audioscript.
   • Use vocabulary prediction.
   • Have students listen all the time.

8. Some students finish before everybody else?

   • Provide extra material.
   • Spare activities.