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Once you have selected the activity or activities which you are going to use in class, you can keep this general checklist of tips in mind:

• Prepare the language.

• Use a familiar signal to get the children's attention.

• Wait unitil everyone is quiet and attentive before starting to explain what to do.

• Announce the general nature and purpose of the activity.

• Establish or create a context.

• Divide the class into pairs, groups or teams, if this is relevant for the activity.

• Give clear instructions.

• Demostrate how the activity works in practice.

• Check that the children understand what to do before they start the activity.

• If appropiate, model aloud procedures or thinking processes that children will need to go through themselves in order to be able to carry out an activity or task successfully.

• Give a signal to start.

 

During and after the activity:

• Allow the children to carry out the activity independently and responsibly.

• Monitor discreetly.

• Train the children to look up in order to let you know when they have finished doing a task or activity and always be ready with something esle for them to do.

• Give feedback, check answers or invite individual children to report back or tell/show the rest of the class what they have done.

• Conduct a learning review.