Hello. Hello, guys.
Last minutes of the class are just important as first ones.
Closing activities help students and teachers to reflect and tie
up learned concepts, and to give a continuity in future lessons.
Want to get a few examples on how to it?
Today, I’ll share with you three ideas for activities
to close a lesson.
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This traditional game is ideal when you have some vocabulary
during the class and you want them to practise it.
Ask students to write down some categories.
Let’s say you saw some animals and verbs during the class.
You select an animal, action and place for categories.
Provide a letter from the alphabet.
First person to write an animal, action and place with that
letter will scream stop, and everyone else will
have to stop writing.
You can check a couple of examples from the people
that finished.
If you wanted to make the game more difficult,
you can ask your students to make a sentence with
the words they wrote.
It can be with a specific grammar tense they saw in class
or any they want, you decide.
This is a reflective activity very similar
to an exit ticket or slip.
An exit ticket is a brief activity that
students complete at the close of class.
Exit tickets give the teacher a quick way to
evaluate what students have learned on that day,
and who might still need some extra support.
For onsite lessons, you can ask students to
draw a stoplight or provide them with a picture of it.
For online lessons, you can facilitate
a space like Padlet, where the students can
share their answers in the different colours
from a stoplight.
For the green light, you will ask your
students to write down something they
already knew about the lesson’s topic.
For example, I already knew some of the verbs that we used today.
For the yellow light, they will have to write
about something they learned that day.
For example, I learned how to give and take advice.
And for the red light, they will write something they
found difficult and not so clear yet about the lesson’s topic.
For example, I’m still confused
with the difference between may and might.
This will help you, as a teacher, on how to
continue your future lessons to solve the different doubts.
This is a fun and exciting activity that you may know
but sometimes forget as a closing activity for a lesson.
For onsite lessons, you pick an object like
a bowl, a pencil case, the board eraser,
or whatever you have in the classroom,
and pass it around a circle.
For online lessons, you can simply use
a random name-picker online, like miniwebtool, and enter
the name of your students to get one of them randomly each
time you click.
Whether you are the one that created the questions or your
students created them, the person who ends
up with the ball, or with his or her
name on the random-picker, will have to answer a question
related to the content or the day as a whole, you decide.
Those were some of the closing activities you can make, but I’d
love to hear if you know more.
Please, share them in the comments section.
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