English Teaching Motivation Boosters and Fillers

1Fremdsprachentag 2014, Gymnasium Zwiesel, 10.04.2014

Our Aims

Motivate pupils – fire them up and cool 'em down.

Fill gapsSave ourselves time


Find s.o.who …..- has more than two brothers or two sisters

- can spell and say their name backwards

- who has met a famous person

- can name four flowers


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Did you knowmost English

jokes are based on double

meanings?


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The bandage was wound around the wound.

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(also good as fillers!):

- to introduce a theme- to relax S after a hard day's work- to wake S up after a hard night- to wait for late arrivals- to provide a break in the lesson- to provide humour- to provide oral fluency practice- to finish the lesson on a light note


Coffee Break


What do you need to change?


Time for a song – but mind the gap!

LeavesBrownSkyGreyWinter’s dayColdWarm


Mamas & The Papas – California Dreaming

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I've been for a walk on a winter’s day

I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA

California dreaming on such a winter’s day

Stepped into a church I passed along the way

Well, I got down on my knees

and I pretended to pray

you know the preacher likes the cold

he knows I'm gonna stay

California dreaming on such a winter’s day

- instrumental –

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I've been for a walk on a winter’s day

If I didn't tell her I could leave today

California dreaming on such a winter’s day.


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What if…..?• Imagine you met the Queen and could ask her ONE

question. What would it be?

• Tell students about Peppa Pig, the most popular young children‘s programme in Britain. A group of amimals are going to meet the Queen. Why? What questions might they ask her?

• Watch – who was right (or closest to) ? What if?


Opposites Attract

Dictat a short text and have Ss write the opposite of it. Ss then read their own versions aloud and compare. Who has the most similar “opposite” story?

A young man lived in a horrible old house. He had no cats or dogs . He hated playing football and drinking coffee….


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Springboard into topic of friendship.

´How much do you value your friends?

What‘s the ideal good number of friends?

40, 100? Or more than 400, like on FB?


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CARTOONS as springboard

Lists, lists, lists!Tell Ss you couldn‘t sleep last night so you made lists in your

mind of

When you woke up you tried to remember them all by writing them down, but got them mixed up. Hand them out on cards, pupils put into right order.

Follow up with pupils making own lists of whta they likes/dislike doing. Could write best ones onto cards, mix and redistribute, rebuild.

I like getting up and ………….

I dislike waking up and…...


Who, what , where, when, why ?


Gerund or infinitive?


CuLturally

Yours

Yours


COCONUT PROTECTION OFFICERYES, THIS REALLY DOES EXIST

(ALTHOUGH PERHAPS NOT WITH THAT JOB TITLE). AT THE RITZ CARLTON ON THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS, THERE IS A MAN WHOSE DUTY IT IS TO PROTECT GUESTS FROM FALLING COCONUTS. WHICH, NOT TO BELITTLE THE JOB, CAN DO SOME SERIOUS DAMAGE IF THEY LAND ON YOUR HEAD. BUT SHIMMYING UP PALM TREES TO PICK RIPENED COCONUTS FOR A LIVING? WHEN


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Don‘t Let Routine Become Routine!


Remember Motiboosters, fillers (and coolers!) should always be

shortcompetitive Interactivefun

and get Ss to think in English!


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