Teaching English As A Foreign Language Case Study

Introduction
A course of English as a Foreign Language is usually assumed to be based on a text book, possibly on a few units where the stress is on the listening and a few other units looking in details at grammar improvement.

However, what happens if the school lacks one of the above tools? Maybe the school does not provide some of those and the teacher is required to develop from scratch a method to teach a specific topic. How many times it has happened that, for example, the modern tool do not want to work? Developing an original source to teach English as a Foreign Language is not an easy task; it is challenging because it tests the power of flexibility.

Nevertheless, this is precisely the moment when a teacher can think “out of the box”. There are theoretically never-ending possibilities, as long as this is correctly presented and worked out.

Setting the classroom like a social laboratory

Task 1
Let’s find out what has changed Fred? who is Fred
Ask students to walk around the classroom for 5 minutes trying to take notes of some details of the arrangements; then let them all waiting for 5 minutes outside while the teacher will change something. The teacher will take a note of what has changed. After this, let them in again and ask them to verify if and what has changed in the classroom. This will allow students to

For those students not very motivated or kinetic the teacher can show how much better and fun it is embodying and “acting” tenses. If they are particularly shy teacher can always get very close to them and listening carefully when taking notes of what Fred has changed or when asking about past experiences. By contrast for those more extroverts this will be the opportunity to give room to their theatrical