Introduction | p. 1 |
Maintaining discipline in the classroom | p. 12 |
Basics of maintaining order | p. 12 |
Routines for improving discipline | p. 22 |
Jobs for friendship pairs and very useful persons | p. 22 |
Spatial anchoring | p. 23 |
Noise control: the disappearing word | p. 24 |
Confiscating things | p. 25 |
Behaviour charts | p. 26 |
Peer mediation: structured discussion of conflictual behaviour | p. 27 |
Writing scenarios | p. 29 |
Discussing ground rules | p. 32 |
Asking questions about people's stories and thinking of solutions | p. 33 |
Dry run, with role reversal and solutions brainstorm | p. 36 |
Short, auxiliary activities: ice-breakers, warm ups, breaks and closers | p. 42 |
Clap and say | p. 43 |
Passing on | p. 44 |
Flash the picture | p. 45 |
Alphabetical vocabulary review | p. 46 |
Surprise questions | p. 49 |
From letters to grammar | p. 50 |
Comparing it and me | p. 51 |
Kill the text (then bring it back to life) | p. 52 |
Question-question improvisation dialogues | p. 53 |
Alphabet improvisation dialogues | p. 54 |
Mainly speaking | p. 57 |
Oral fluency in pairs and groups: instructing, conversing, interviewing | p. 57 |
LEGO constructions | p. 57 |
Describe and draw ... the opposite | p. 59 |
The same but different | p. 60 |
Newspaper pictures | p. 61 |
My map of the world | p. 63 |
Be someone else | p. 65 |
Picture interviews | p. 67 |
Tell me about it | p. 70 |
Stories from pictures | p. 72 |
Graffiti | p. 73 |
Holding forth, being in the spotlight | p. 75 |
Letter on the board | p. 75 |
30-second stimulus talks | p. 76 |
Pitching a wonderful new product | p. 77 |
Questions to the head | p. 82 |
The third degree about a text | p. 83 |
Simulation and presentations by groups | p. 84 |
Performing stories from sounds | p. 87 |
Mainly listening | p. 89 |
Using your own voice | p. 89 |
Ticking differences | p. 89 |
General knowledge quizzes | p. 90 |
Picture dictation--a basic version | p. 92 |
Using recordings | p. 94 |
Which one was it? | p. 94 |
Who said what, when and why--using film excerpts | p. 95 |
Where do these words go? | p. 96 |
Interactive song dictation | p. 98 |
Mainly reading | p. 101 |
Reading tasks for authentic English | p. 102 |
Mind-map the text | p. 102 |
Listening for the differences | p. 104 |
Put it in order | p. 105 |
Take a good song and make it better | p. 107 |
Quiz with a difference | p. 109 |
Horoscopes | p. 110 |
Students read out or tell stories | p. 111 |
Reading aloud | p. 111 |
What comes next? | p. 114 |
Imagine that! | p. 119 |
Mainly writing | p. 123 |
What's the number? | p. 124 |
ABC sentences | p. 125 |
Writing from a medley | p. 126 |
Connecting the Top 50 | p. 127 |
Fake biographies | p. 129 |
What a story! | p. 131 |
Put yourself in the picture | p. 132 |
Write in the shape | p. 135 |
Draw the text | p. 137 |
Diary questions | p. 138 |
Learning and reviewing vocabulary | p. 142 |
Activities completable in one or two lessons | p. 144 |
Mime the text | p. 144 |
What can I see in English? | p. 145 |
How many? | p. 146 |
Find the words in the picture | p. 147 |
Lists from pictures, pictures from lists | p. 148 |
My schoolbag, and yours? | p. 149 |
The best ... | p. 150 |
What can you hear and smell in the picture? | p. 152 |
Activities that can roll from lesson to lesson | p. 153 |
Acting out prepositions | p. 153 |
Memory poster circles | p. 156 |
Physical action vocabulary and metaphor | p. 159 |
Literature | p. 161 |
Writing poetic texts: learning about basic features of poetic writing | p. 162 |
Writing haikus | p. 162 |
Writing limericks | p. 164 |
Word association poems | p. 166 |
First encounters with poetic texts: preparing for reception, hearing/reading | p. 167 |
From words to predictions | p. 167 |
Find the poem | p. 169 |
Gradual reveal | p. 172 |
Learning a poem really well: reading out loud and/or memorising | p. 174 |
Starting and ending with dashes | p. 174 |
Picture poem | p. 176 |
Technicolour reading: recital in voice groups | p. 178 |
Exploring the meanings of literary texts: reading, thinking, discussing | p. 180 |
Poem picture metaphor | p. 180 |
From sketch to discussion of a short story | p. 181 |
Literature interpretation mandala | p. 183 |
Summarap | p. 184 |
Card quiz game on a novel | p. 185 |
Two short texts on a similar topic | p. 188 |
Building the skills of discussion and debate | p. 191 |
Fluency under pressure and other prerequisites of debating | p. 193 |
Timed topic talks | p. 193 |
Pro and con presentations | p. 196 |
Challenge the assertion! | p. 199 |
Just a minute! | p. 202 |
Additional prerequisites of debating | p. 204 |
Collecting small-scale debate topics | p. 204 |
Exploring small-scale debate topics | p. 204 |
Controversy role plays | p. 206 |
The PMI brainstorm | p. 208 |
Great art debate | p. 210 |
Research notes | p. 212 |
Doing debating | p. 214 |
Single switch debating | p. 214 |
References | p. 219 |
Index | p. 221 |
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