Нова українська школа: методика навчання англійської мови у 3-4 класах закладів загальної середньої освіти на засадах компетентнісного підходу - Крістіна Карпюк 2020

How to end a Lesson
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How you finish your lesson also plays a significant role for your students. Before giving them homework, you need to summarise and ’closure’ what your students have learnt as well as say your ’goodbye’ in a positive tone, so that they would exit your classroom with a smile, looking forward to the next lesson with you.

1 Revision activity: quiz game

A fun way to finish your lesson is to play a game which summarises all of the learnt material. ’Jeopardy’ is one of such games (you will need a dice and some fake money/cards):

✵ choose a few topics and make some questions on each one which your students will answer. For example -

a) guess the word by miming/gesturing it;

b) give your students the word to draw it or vice versa;

c) show a flashcard for them to name or spell the word;

d) give students the word and they should make a sentence with it.

✵ pick up five words for each topic;

✵ divide the students into two teams. Each team rolls the dice. The team with the highest number goes first. The team chooses a box on the Jeopardy board. If they guess the word correctly, they win the money in that box. The team with the most money in the end wins the game.

2 A ’puppet discussion’

Get students to sit in a circle. Wear a puppet on your hand and let them tell it what they remember about the lesson and have learnt and liked today.

3 Game «Snowstorm»

✵ Each student writes what he/she has learnt in this lesson on a piece of paper and then wads it up.

✵ Given a signal by the teacher, all students throw their wads away in the air.

✵ Each student picks up a nearby wad and reads it aloud to the whole class.

4 Self-evaluation

Put on a chart on your board and let your students fill it in by drawing smiling faces on it.

(suggested by Esteves, 2016)

5 A «Goodbye» song (everyone waves hands):

«Goodbye, goodbye!

It’s time to go!

Hurry up, hurry up!

It’s time to tidy up!

Goodbye, goodbye!

See you soon!

Goodbye, goodbye!

See you soon!»

(suggested by Esteves, 2016)

6 A «Goodbye» riddle (everyone waves hands):

«Clap your hands!

Bye, my friends!

We all are done!

We had some fun!

Blink your eye!

Goodbye, goodbye!

See you soon,

in this classroom!»

7 Activity «Draw and Guess»

Each student draws a picture on the board and everyone else guesses which word it presents (words should not be repeated). If there are any words left, the teacher can draw them him/herself and the class should guess.

This activity is especially useful to sum up all of the new vocabulary learnt in the lesson and check how many words students remember.

8 Task «The Jar»

Each pupil writes on a piece of paper what he/she has learnt in this lesson and what he/she would like to learn more. Everyone throws their papers in a big jar. Later, the teacher checks the students’ replies in the jar and notes what the students have learnt and would like to learn. This can help the teacher to check learners’ knowledge as well as their wishes and use this information to plan the next lesson.

9 Game «Pass the Ball!»

✵ Students stand in a circle.

✵ One student holds a ball.

✵ He/She asks one question and passes the ball to the other student whom he/she wants to answer it.

✵ The student receiving the ball, quickly answers, then asks his/her own question and passes it to another student.

✵ The game continues until all of the pupils have given a question and an answer.

The questions should be related to the topic of the lesson or the teacher can write down one or a few topics on the board (for instance, topic: «Food», questions: «What is your favourite food/drink?», «What did you eat/drink for breakfast?», «What do you want to eat/drink for dinner?», «What food/drinks do you not like?», «What is your favourite dessert?», «What ice cream do you like?», «What cafe is your favourite?», «Which fruit/vegetables do you (not) like?» and so on).

10 Game «Piece the Puzzle»

This game is especially useful to remind and sum up the vocabulary of today’s lesson as well as to practise word order in questions.

✵ Students are divided into groups.

✵ Each student in a group receives a piece of paper with a word.

✵ Pupils put all of the pieces together to form a question.

✵ Having seen it, each student answers it.

✵ Each group talks for about 1-2 minutes.

✵ In the end, a representative of each group tells the whole class what their group has talked about.

For example, the topic of today’s lesson is related to hobbies. Therefore, the questions can be, «What do you do in your free time?», «Do you do sports in your free time?», «What clubs do you go to?», «What films are your favourite?», «What games do you play?» and so on.