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How to Give Your English Students Homework (and avoid all the complaining!)
Homework is an inevitable part of learning and yet somehow the majority of us don’t look forward to receiving it. As a TEFL teacher in Buenos Aires, you are bound to come across students that offer you ‘groans’ or ‘rolling eyes’ when you present them with homework. It is good to have an idea of how to present your students with homework, and make sure they are completing it.
Make homework relevant
Don’t just make your students to homework because you feel like its the obvious thing to do after an English class. Give you students something that is relevant to what they just learned and that they will have some sort of interest in completing.
Short homework assignments
Homework should not be really be hours worth of work (depending on your students needs/wants). In general, homework should take your students between 20-40 minutes, sometimes less, sometimes a little more. Just remember that giving homework doesn’t mean loading up you students with hours of work, it should serve as a review of what they are learning.
Daily work
Give your students daily homework so that they get accustomed to always doing some work after their classes. This will get them in the rhythm of doing homework and students will not offer a constant sigh or groan when presented with it.
Homework is the best way to support the English lessons that you have just taught in your TEFL classes in Buenos Aires. Check out more of our Expanish TEFL blogs for more tips on teaching English!
