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Keeping Current with TEFL Buenos Aires
Are you a TEFL teacher in Buenos Aires and missing out on current news from your home country?
Living abroad can make it hard to keep in touch with all that is happening in back at home. Obviously the internet, newspapers, and television are great resources to keep updated daily on current events but maybe for you it is not the lack of information but the lack of time. As a TEFL teacher in Buenos Aires, you are busy with classes, lesson planning, friends, sights, travel, parties, and much more.
Whether you are teaching English as a second language privately, to a group or a class, a great way to stay informed about current events is to make them educational. Achieve this by assigning students to bring in current events that interest them, Then have them talk about these events at the beginning of every class. It would be time consuming to have every student speak, if you have a large class, so just assign one student per day to bring in a current event.
They can describe the events this way:
• where it takes place
• what happened
• who is involved
• when it happened
• why it is interesting to them
Warm-up activities are great for relaxing your students, establishing a group dynamic, refreshing key vocabulary and grammar, and getting your students into ‘English’ mode. They also help your students put aside their daily distractions and focus on English. If they haven’t used English all day, they may take a little while to shift into it. Warm-ups also encourage whole-group participation that can build a sense of community within the group.
With this exercise you can keep updated on current events, benefit your students, and at the same time create a warm up that takes absolutely no prep time.
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