That’s a Wrap; Ending your efl class with an effective wrap-up.

Keep an eye on your timing so that you have around three to five minutes to wrap up your lesson. Wrap-ups stop classes from ending abruptly. They also provide a chance to praise your students and do some final comprehension checks at the end. Do a quick, easy “test”, designed to set your students up for success, so that they end the lesson feeling good about their efforts and the class as a whole. Check for questions at the end and say goodbye.

So that’s the first part of your crash course in how to teach an English class. A practical course with observed classes is by the far the best option. Since it’s not always possible, then reading some practical textbooks and articles like this should stand you in good stead.

8 Вопрос

Communicative Approach in English Teaching

 I. Porblems in the present English teaching and causes of these problems

    As present, English teaching reform has been carried out in schools, some teaching reform has been succeeded, but there are still some problems in English teaching. The students who have had several years of training in English are still unable to actually use the language. For example, the students can’t understand what the teachers have said and they can’t express themselves, their ability of listening and speaking is not up to standard. They can’t communicate with others in English. What they have learned is only used in examination. Many people believe that is is because the teachers do not do their job properly. Actually, many teachers ignore the importance of the students’ ability of listening and speaking. Now the teachers have been faced with the problem of improving the students’ ability of listening and speaking.

    English teaching reform is carried out on a national-wide scale, how do we evaluate it? Most of headmasters and teachers only pay attention to the marks of the entrance examination. It seems that some students have got high marks in examination, but their listening and speaking are very poor, they can’t communicate with what they have learned. Secondary school students have taken six years to master the essential of English and still are not able to speak the language well in many cases. In essence, the students’ language ability is incomplete.

Furthermore, many teachers think that they have taught the basic knowledge of the language to students; it is simple enough for the students to use the knowledge, later, to communicate. However, it wrong to think that knowledge of how sentences are used in communication follows from knowledge of the correct way to make them. The thought of teachers is also a reason resulting in the fact ------- the students’ language is incomplete. Investigating the west education of foreign language, we can find that the teachers never divide the four abilities in their teaching. They always put the training students’ speaking ability at the first place, they drill the students’ listening ability in the whole communicative process. So our teachers face with the problem of changing our teaching methods to improve the students’ ability of listening and speaking.