Kinaesthetic Intelligence.

Kinaesthetic  Intelligence.

If you are not good at understanding formulas or structures, don’t think that you are not intelligent. I have heard a lot of people say, ”I am not intelligent” .I always replied saying “ Why?”.They usually say “I am not doing well at school, I don’t understand well or at all the teacher’s explanations.” I want to say to those people that they are intellingent. The only thing that make them feel like that is that they don’t understand; however it doesn’t mean that they are not able to understand. Of course they are smart. The problem is that thay have other kinds of intelligence that don’t adjust to the teacher methods.

Those people are probably kinaesthetic (body-smart). Not only do Body-smart people think and feel through touch and movements, but they also enjoy lots of sports and physical activity. If you are good at dancing, acting or sport, you are kinaesthetic. The more skin and muscles you use, the better you remember. It means that in a classroom teacher should consider this fact. In general body-smart people  may welcome opportunities to get up and move around the class.

 Kinaesthetic learners can use gestures to learn the information. For instance in a language class, you can give the meaning od a new word by using gestures rather than using a long sentence. It may sound odd, but it is a good idea for kinaesthetic learners to chew gum while studing. Also listening to music while studying is a great idea as the more senses you can involve in learning, the better you will remember it.

Lexicl approach.

First, I wild like to tell you what skills students can improve by using this approach. Students can improve speaking, listening, reading and writing. You may wonder why.

We must know that lexical approach focuses more prefabricated items or chunks that represent a significant portion of a native speaker’s spoken and written output. So you should not pay attention to the grammar, the structure or the vocabulary, if so you won’t get confused. I don’t think that translating a chunk word by word  is not good idea.

 I remember the time when I was in basic. I had trouble understanding some questions. For instance, “How old are you?” ,etc. Definitely, You will have problems to understand If you translate the chunks, You had not better do it. When you find a chunk on a reading, you should believe that grannar and vicavulary are false.

The focus of lexical approach is on the real English. Guessing the meaning of vocabulary items from context is a great way to come up with the meaning of the chunk. Personally apeaking, lexical approach must be applied in higher level (imtermediate…higher)....

Enjoy meeting each other (icebreaker activity)

Funny icebreaker activity.

The aim of the activity is to help the students enjoy meeting each other. As everybody knows, some students are a little shy becauce they do not know each other. Using this activity helps to deal with this problem since there are funny questions that students ask each other. When students asks this questions to a partner, the student will feel that he has met his partner before.

 The studens have to make a group and then the teacher will provide them  some those icebreaker questions to each student. They will have to choose a partner an then ask one of the question. The other student will feel comfortable to answer tthat question because it does not require much effort to answer but a lot of honesty and confidence...Here are a list of questions that atudents can use.
-If you woke up tomorrow as an animal, what animal would you choose to be an why?
-If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be?
-What favorite color are you and how deos being that color make you feel?
- Are you spring, summer, fall or winter? Please share why.
-etc....
Answering these questions, you will laugh with your classmates and at the end of the activity, you will know each other and also you will feel like talking to your classmates. Not only will students do that but they will know aech other more deeply. For Instance, when a person answer the fist question above, he/she will describe his/her personality traits and characteristics.... Enjoy the activity.

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