good morning class today we're going to be learning about selves if anyone tell
me what a cell is anyone you know people never look at these in my mind have you
experienced the confused look of students like in the video this is
completely normal and natural and don't beat yourself over it it happened to me
so many times in the beginning experience of my ESL teaching career in
this video I'm gonna allow outlined three different strategies and resources
that you can start using in your classroom tomorrow that will help your
students understand the topic that you are teaching them also make sure to
stick around towards the end because I'm going to be sharing with you some free
resources that you can download and start using tomorrow to help your
students understand the type of vocabulary that you are using in the
classroom
I want to welcome those of you who are new to my channel my name is dr.
Hemphill and I upload a new video every week on Wednesdays on tips and
strategies to help teachers in their classroom to teach English learners make
sure you go ahead and press that subscribe button and hit the
notification bell so that you can be notified every week when I upload a new
video the first tip when teaching students new
vocabulary is to make sure that you have that you provide ample background
information on that term for example make sure that if you're talking about a
cell do you have pictures of it and that you may tell a story about it or a short
clip or even just PowerPoint slides but just make sure that they're engaging and
it's very clear what you are talking about and emphasize make them repeat
after you that vocabulary word and write it on the board reason why it's so
important is so that they can connect the sound of the word and what it
actually looks like because in that faculty when they're hearing you speak
they're just putting a bunch of string of words together and they can't really
separate or make out what that word is so showing it to them really helps them
to understand how it's spelled and how it's supposed to be pronounced in the
description below I have included a three example that you can download now
of a Google slides presentation of vocabulary words for a unit that we're
teaching on the novel Hunger Games what's nice is that you can edit it for
your use if you teach math social studies or science you can replace the
words and the description of the words with whatever topic or content that
you're teaching for your students a second strategy that is very helpful
when introducing vocabulary to students is the TPR method or total physical
response total physical response or TPR is just a fancy word of saying that
you're going to use hand gestures motions and so that students can
understand what you are saying for example if I want to say the word
running instead of just say running I can say running and a newcomer to the
country will immediately understand what you are saying it's also a great way to
help students understand the different parts of a sentence for example if I say
in Spain yotaka logic aha that sounds really fast
to you and it sounds like all the words are coming in to each other but if I say
yo doko la guitarra already now you're making the distinction that oh she just
said a sentence that has four words in them great strategy and it really help
your students understand the vocabulary sentence structures and connect meaning
to what you are telling them the third strategy that is very beneficial for
students is to give them an opportunity to interact with the words that you are
teaching them through games I use games a lot because it really helps to ease
the anxiety or the affective filter that students are oftentimes will feel when
they're being introduced to academic vocabulary and it just allows students
to really hone in on the importance of those words in a fun and engaging way
and it's also through repetition and their sociated actions with those words
that locks them into long-term memory I'm going to be referencing four
different ESL youtubers that I have come to know that I think that they produce
excellent vocabulary games that you can start using the has very little
preparation and I'm gonna be linking them below but I just wanted to mention
that one of them is Mike's home ESL ranked eighth English the ESL guy and
guys with games I highly recommend that you check out their videos they're
amazing and you will really love how they introduce games to English learners
I'm also going to be linking in the description below some PDF files of
different games that I have used I have been successful in the past so that you
can start using them right away those are my top three ESL vocabulary tips
that I have for you today I hope you found them beneficial how do you use
vocabulary in your classroom and what other games or strategies that I didn't
mention that you use please comment below I would love to hear about them
also please make sure that you tune in next week on Wednesday for a new
strategy on differential instruction for English learners thank you so much for
sticking to the end and I'll see you next week bye