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Classroom Management for Young Learners

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Controlling your class is essential to create a learning environment. If you are unable to guide your students through the class smoothly havoc ensues. Take control of your classes by following these simple steps.

English Basketball - created to bring some of the 2006 World Basketball Championship excitement to the classroom. This interactive conversational game gets the students speaking and excited. Use it to review or practice Q&A, new grammar, reading, or vocabulary. With foul cards and limited 3 pointers, strategy is a big part of why the students are so captivated!

This entry was posted on Monday, April 17th, 2006 at 9:00 am and is filed under Podcasts. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your site.

13 Responses to “Classroom Management for Young Learners”

  1. Evan Simpson Says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 11:10 pm

    Is there a way to subscribe to your podcasts so I can download them onto my ipod?

  2. Eric Says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    Of course, just look us up in iTunes and you’ll find us there. Hit the subscribe button and then set up your iPod preferences so that ESL Teacher Talk is downloaded to your iPod.

  3. David Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 1:45 am

    Great site man!

  4. Eric Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 1:49 am

    Thanks, David!

  5. livinginkorea Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 1:59 am

    Any ideas for TPR? Is their any website that has different actions for TPR?

  6. Eric Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 2:03 am

    http://www.eslhq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165
    http://www.eslhq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325
    http://www.eslhq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53
    http://www.eslhq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=298
    http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2006/04/game-of-the-week-slam/
    http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2006/04/gotw-line-jumping/

    I hope that helps!

    Eric

  7. mesmark Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 4:52 am

    http://www.eslincanada.com/tpr.html
    That’s a pretty detailed discussion on TPR
    http://www.englishraven.com/TPR_main.html
    this has some ideas for starting out.

    Start your own thread at any forum and you’ll see the TPR teachers come out. http://www.mes-english.com/forums/

    - Mark

  8. ece Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 5:18 am

    It was really one of the best audios regarding ESL teaching strategies that I had listened. Thanks for that. I have been teaching English to young learners for about 6 years in Turkey and I believe that the strategies you suggested here will be helpfull.

  9. Felipe Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 10:02 am

    this is an incredible site, I’m from chile and I’ve been teaching for 4 years.I’d like you to send me some information and activities to teach pre-school students and primary students.
    Best wishes, bye bye

  10. mesmark Says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    Felipe - I have a site full of ideas and materials
    www.mes-english.com there’s also a forum with some game ideas and teaching advice.
    I recently came across another site which looks very good for teaching young learners www.teachingchildrenesl.com
    - Mark

  11. livinginkorea Says:
    April 20th, 2006 at 6:59 am

    Thanks for getting back to me you guys. I used TPR a lot in class as an introduction for the younger grades, just to get them excited and settled at the time. I should use it more in class to be honest but my classes are jammed packed as it is!

    Livinginkorea

  12. Amir Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 3:10 am

    Thanks a million! Your job helps teachers a lot. I wish i could download them free. I am a teacher of young learners, and a university lecturer in Iran. The thing is that it is quite difficult for us to buy those stuff here. Is there any way i could download them for free?

  13. Mark Says:
    December 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    Amir - Thanks for the comments. This is a free podcast and you should be able to download and listen to the podcsats for free.

    What problems are you having or is someone trying to charge you for these?

    Happy teaching,
    Mark

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