These TEFL Drilling Tips will help you succeed with preschool & primary school English language learners
When you’re teaching English to kids you don’t want any phase of your lesson to drag. Once that happens it gets harder and harder to manage your students. Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong with drilling vocabulary and phrases. That’s why you want these five TEFL drilling tips so you’ll keep up a great, positive momentum in your English lessons.
In this video I’ll share with you 5 tips for drilling English vocabulary and phrases. These work with children ages 3 and up to 11 years old. They’ll work for both small and especially for large classes of 25 or even 45 students.
They’ll help you keep your drilling short and snappy so students don’t get bored and lose focus. This includes how to keep the pace up and also how not to get bogged down if you have large classes of students.
Another TEFL drilling tip will help you communicate clearly to your students during drilling so everyone knows what you want and responds immediately. No more weak responses with just one or two students in a class of 15 or 45 kids!
You’ll also learn how to avoid accidentally cutting students from your drills and preventing them from learning & practicing English. It’s all too common and nobody wants that!
Finally, you’ll also get two TEFL drilling tip techniques for making your drills more powerful & extended beyond just simple vocabulary. They’ll also help your students improve their pronunciation and get used to things like subject-verb agreement in English.
If you’re looking for more tips on drilling English vocabulary, check out these fun drilling techniques and these common drilling mistakes.
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