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Sometimes teachers get tired. At the end of the day give your younger students a sheet of paper and some crayons and ask them to draw something. When they have finished ask them to tell you about it. This is very simple, but very effective. Younger students love to colour, they always appreciate a colouring activity. I have put a table cloth on the wall before and got the students to colour in pictures to put on the picnic. If they can put their names on their pictures, so much the better.

I often look for the odd new in http://news.yahoo.com when a suitable article is found I will photocopy it, cut it into strips and let the students piece it together.

If you make up cards for your students, use A4 paper, laminate it to make it last longer. A corner cutter will round off the corners and make them last longer.

Try and get a set of gaming dice, not all dice have 6 sides, some have 4, 8, 10, 12 or 20 sides. They can be used to randomize events. If you have a big class give each student a number and role a die to decide who is going to answer. The student who answered can role the die to select the next victim.

If you are able to use You Tube videos in the classroom, do not rely on the Internet, save the video to a flash RAM. Firefox has add-ons that can do that. Click on the More from: button on You Tube, there may be more material there.

If there is a singing activity a plastic microphone will help the quieter student. Pens, bananas and pencil cases make good substitute microphones.

If you need to tire students out get them to do jumping jacks to this !


If students will not stop speaking the L1 in class get them to do 10 jumping jacks, it might not stop them speaking the L1 but at least they will get fit ! Or get them to dance to the Wiggles.