Name: The Teachers' Room: Top tips for giving instructions
Uploaded: 2021-04-11T16:50:04.000Z
Duration: 5 min 52 s
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Hello and welcome to the teacher's room here in the Sky today.

And this episode's topic is, instructions are so important.

Don't forget to set a time limit, Tell the students how long they have to complete the activity before you start the activity.

When you say finished, terrible number two, make sure that you have 100% of the attention of the class before you start explaining the instructions because then you'll have to start from the beginning to get a little confusing and number three, what?

Listen to me, don't hand out the material to the students before you finished explaining the instructions, unless they need to see the material to understand.

Because as soon as you put that paper in the hand to go, what's this?

And then they stopped listening to you completely your turn your time, upgrade your language, make sure you plan what you're gonna say.

Keep your language short and simple, especially for lower levels.

Work in pairs to to to to to tell your partner about your favorite holiday.

With low level classes, it can really help to write instructions up on the board so that they can see throughout the activity what they're doing.

And don't forget to use gestures, body language to reinforce what you're saying.

Listen, okay class, we're going to listen to the recording and read the information.

They may say yes just to please you or they may think they've understood what they might say it out of fear.

Those are instruction checking questions to make sure that students fully comprehend what they have to do with particularly tricky tasks.

You could get a very confident shooting up to the front to demonstrate the task with you.

Oh, okay, class, we're going to do a spot the difference activity.

Oh, so dan, can you look at your partner's picture?

Teacher to mix things up with more experienced students who are more familiar with classroom techniques.

Sometimes I hand the students, I haven't finished my senses yet.

I give the students their activity and then I say ask me some questions to find out what you need to do.

So they could say for example are we working on our own or with our partner?

And then you can confirm or reject their ideas and this makes instruction giving a bit more fun for them.

But you must remember to recap the task before you begin the activity so that there's no confusion.

You don't them all doing different things that they've made up.

Okay so we're gonna listen to the song very good.

Can we check with our partners afterwards?

Now dan has an instruction to give you, send us your tips.

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