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TEACHING WITH OUR WORLD
English Time
English, (clap) English, (clap)
English (clap) today! (clap, clap)
English, (clap) English, (clap)
Hip, hip, (clap) hooray! (clap, clap)
• After the chant, students are ready to engage in
English with a beginning activity that generally
reviews material from previous units and lessons.
Teachers use picture cards, mini picture cards, the
mascot stick puppets, and short games to recycle
vocabulary, structures, concepts, or the sounds of
English.
• Present After students warm up, it is time to
present the new language. This means teaching
new vocabulary words, language models, or
content concepts through visuals, realia, examples,
or using the Classroom Presentation Tool. Teachers
should take time on this step and provide numerous
activities to give lots of meaningful listening input.
This will help students gain comprehension of
the new language. The Our World Starter Lesson
Planner suggests multiple activities to present and
check comprehension of language to support the
activities in the Student’s Book.
• Practice An important step focuses on students’
first efforts to use new target language. For Young
Learners, practice is guided, meaning that students
are provided with the structures and vocabulary
needed to produce the target language. While
students are not expected to create new language
independently, the goal is to provide opportunities
for them to try out new language in order to
prepare for real communicative contexts.
• Apply At this stage, students should be able to
use new language in realistic contexts, as well as
personalize the language with respect to their own
lives. Application further develops students’ abilities
to use language communicatively.
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• Extend Extension activities are additional
communicative activities that help students
personalize new language and use it in realistic
contexts. These activities are not found in the
Student’s Book and are designed to provide
additional opportunities for real communication
among students in the classroom.
• Wrap Up Concluding the lesson or class with a final
activity is always important, as students need to
leave the class knowing that they have completed
an activity and learned something. This might be
a worksheet, a game, or a chant. The Our World
Starter Lesson Planner provides wrap-up activities
for each class, as well as The Goodbye Chant.
The Goodbye Chant
Good work, class.
Hip hip, hooray!
Goodbye for now.
Have a nice day!
• Three-Step Routines In addition to the explicit,
guided instruction provided in the Lesson Planner,
Our World also offers a series of three-step teaching
routines as an alternative or streamlined approach
to lesson planning. These routines can be used for
any major lesson type and contain all of the major
elements of successful lessons in consolidated form.
Lesson Adjustments
Teachers must keep in mind many different
elements as they plan their lessons. They identify
learning objectives and match appropriate activities
to them. They plan how they will use their physical
space and seating arrangements for individual, pair,
and group work. They collect the materials and
equipment they will need. They think about time
management and pacing. But no matter the plan,
teachers know to expect the unexpected as the day’s
lesson unfolds!
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In a classroom full of Young Learners, there are
many factors teachers cannot control. Successful
teachers learn to be creative so that they can adapt
to unplanned events, whether they be a surprise
fire drill, equipment failure, or unexpected student
behaviors. This includes adjusting instruction based
on students’ unique personalities, their mood swings,
their varied interests, and their diverse personal,
cognitive, and emotional needs.
In mixed-ability classes, for example, teachers
spend more time with some students than with
others. When this is the case, they have ready a
number of other activities for the rest of the class
to do. These may include starting homework in
class or choosing something from an activity box
that includes worksheets, puzzles, board games,
vocabulary cards, comic books in English, and class-
produced books. In the Our World Lesson Planner,
teachers have a variety of activities to choose from,
including extension activity suggestions that are not
in the Student’s Book.
In addition, many additional activities and games
are available in the Classroom Presentation Tool
and Online Practice activities.
Successful Activities
Activities have meaning and purpose Activities
for Young Learners should above all be meaningful
and purposeful. Engaging students in authentic
and meaningful contexts helps them recognize and
remember language patterns.
Instead of presenting language as isolated
grammar structures to be analyzed, teachers do well
to present language in realistic contexts and provide
plenty of opportunities for students to repeat,
recycle, and use English in order to communicate
meaningfully with one other.
Activities are supported and scaffolded
Scaffolding is used to describe the exterior support
structure around a building under construction. As
the building is completed, the scaffolding is taken
away, and the building stands on its own. In the
same way, teachers provide scaffolding to students
in order to help them construct knowledge and learn
language effectively.
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Our World prepares students for success by
supporting and scaffolding the learning process and
by breaking tasks down into small, achievable steps
that help build student achievement.
Activities are active and hands-on Our
World materials promote an active and hands-on
classroom. Because so many students are kinesthetic
learners and like to move their bodies and move
around the room, it’s important to make instruction
physically active whenever possible.
Activities are enjoyable and interesting The
photographs and activities in Our World will capture
students’ attention and interest. Each unit is full of
activities that Young Learners find fun and engaging,
such as singing songs, listening to stories, and playing
games. In addition, the video program and the
Classroom Presentation Tool contain a wide variety of
motivating and enjoyable activities.
Repetition and Recycling
Teachers should provide plenty of opportunities to
practice the language. Using repetition and recycling
is important when working with Young Learners. If
children are interested in a story or chant, they will
ask to hear it again. Repeating is a natural part of
children’s learning process.
Our World provides plenty of opportunities for
meaningful repetition, especially if the Classroom
Presentation Tool and video are used in conjunction
with the Student’s Book. Students will get the chance
to hear, repeat, and use both vocabulary and
structures multiple times. Recycling happens within a
unit and also across units to help with retention.
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
As teachers everywhere know, real learning
requires a well-managed classroom. Expectations
of proper classroom behavior can vary from culture
to culture, but in all cases, effective classroom
management goes beyond dealing with misbehavior
only. Many aspects of teaching can affect the
behavior of students in the classroom.
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