Interaction in the ESOL Classroom
Jan 21, 2016
Interaction in the ESOL Classroom
Aim
• Develop trust through interaction• Utilise emotions to increase interaction• Encourage students to improvise• Develop a fictional space• Suggest ideas for collaborative storytelling
Warmer Game
• Letter and a gesture!
How well do you know your classmates?!
• Look at the grid• Fold over
Ring TonesListen to your partner’s ring tone
• What does it tell you about your partner?
• What emotions does it trigger?
• In which situations do you feel it is rude to use a mobile?
• Have you ever forgotten to turn it off?
• How do you feel when people talk loudly on the phone?
Round the world
Compass points
Continents
CUE CARDS• Where are you from? Country, continent
• How do you say ‘hello’ in your language?
• What’s the weather like in your country?
• What names are popular in your country?
• What colours are in your national flag?
• What is your national dress?
Hot Seat
• Choose an emotion card• Think how you walk and talk when feeling like
this• Sit on the hot chair and answer the questions
your classmates ask using ‘the emotion tone’• Your classmates have to find out which
emotion is on your card.