Personalise
Find out what your students are into and base your lesson around their interests. If you
discover that a few members of the class like a certain group or singer you could ask them to
bring in the CD and make an activity out of the lyrics. Or if there are several members who
support the same football team you could get some information from the internet or some pictures of the team and base an activity around that. Personalizing classes is also about giving
the students to find out about you. Obviously it’s up to you to decide how much you want to
give away but you will be a lot more interesting to the class than the photo of Billy in their text
book! If you haven’t already, bring in some photos of friends and family from home to show
them. Most students will be fascinated.