Smile. However difficult it is, you still breathe. You still seethe sun
rise and set, hear the voices of people you love, feel the warmth of your
company, and taste how sweet life can be.
Keep safe! There’s someone who’s gonna be proud of you for whatever
accomplishments you will earn. There’s someone who’s waiting for you to come
home
Remember that a better world will see it’s light of day!
Motivation, enthusiasm, and fun are some of the key factors that make an
English class stand out.
Motivation elicits responses from students without giving them too much
burden of producing what the teacher wants them to learn. While this is
highly effective, coupling it with the teacher’s enthusiasm maintains
students’ motivation to keep learning. The last factor but certainly not
the least is fun. This, however, has to be defined. “Fun” or more
accurately “fun learning” exists when the teacher provides students with venues
to enjoy learning English. Learners should not only have
fun but also learn.
Let us watch Teacher Darlene’s class and see how she employs these
factors.
At Step-Up English Academy, language production through demonstration and
practice is an indispensable part of lessons, which opens opportunities for
students to have first-hand experience of using the target language.
The more learners are encouraged to engage themselves in producing the
language, the more likely it is for them to learn what they are practicing
and produce the language that they practiced in real-life situations.
In the first video clip, the first teacher encourages the learners to use
an everyday question and its response. She then demonstrates how it is asked
and answered before the students produce the question and the response on
their own. In the second, the teacher initiates language production by
asking questions and promotes the use of a common sentence pattern by asking
learners to respond using different words from a vocabulary category.
Watch the video to have an overview of how we do our group classes.