Teach English

[EVA MARIA CLEMENTE]

Good Evening! This is my first time here. I have some difficulties to teach English. Because in our Country we speak Portuguese. In this case the students don´t like to learn English. They sad that language is so difficult to us. I have 47 students in the classroom. I think there isn´t possible to learn during the class. But I´d like that they discovered this language. I know that I have a lot of problems to speak and to teach during the class, because there is an horrible noise. Are there ways to change this situation? How can I help them to like this language? This language is very important to their lives. But how? Could you help me? I am askin you something impossible? Thank you so much to lose your time with this teacher. If you didn´t undestand me sorry!

[daiana]

hi, it depends on the age of your students. if they're kids you could try with characters from movies, eg., the lion king, cindarella, to teach clothes or colours, etc. there's a good book called English Adventure with Disney characters.
if they are teenagers you could try to introduce a new topic with a song. 13 year old kids love high school musical.
may be you could tell them that English is not only good for their future but also for their present: they use it in every day language, hear it on tv, on the radio...
and defnetely you could use games: at the end of the class you can play 'hangman' to revise vocabulary
I hope this helps you a little!!!