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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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“Teaching English as a foreign language to high school students is not a matter of writing some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs, although these are important activities than can not be ignored”… it is well known that this said before it is happening nowadays, but this way of teaching English as a foreign language may turn into a boring experience for students because they loss motivation, which result very difficult for a teacher to catch the attention of the students. The teacher should get the attention of the students and the way to achieve that is by teaching an interactive and dynamic class. Therefore, it is advisable to plan the class by applying dynamic strategies (games, work shops, speeches) using audio visual resources (videos, songs, internet, overhead projector).

new introductory paragraph


The world nowadays it is changing and also our kids are changing with these technological revolutions, the way we used to learn it is not the same today, because we have several way to teach using tools as internet, dvd, videos and music, because of all these changes the way of teach should change in order not to stay behind for instance: Teaching a foreign language to high school students is almost consider an art in some cases, and a hard work for some teachers because it is very difficult to teach a whole new groups of words an also give to the students a way to use these new words, that is why most of the time this learning process may turn into a boring experience for student because they get bored and saturated by all the information given by their teacher in a traditional way, it is not easy to stimulate the students to pay attention in class but there is a way to stimulate them by using dynamics strategies like games, internet sources and music therefore we have to apply dynamics strategies to teach a foreign languages strategies like games, internet ( web pages) and music in order to stimulate the student to pay attention.

Introductory paragraph

First version of the introductory paragraph

..."Teaching a foreign language to high school students is not a matter of writing some grammar rules on a black board and memorizing some verbs, although, those are important activities that can not ignore "...But, most of the time this learning process may turn into a boring experience for student .Due to, it’s important to take into account other strategies in order to catch the attention and help the student to develop their learning skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, it's advisable to use Audio -Visual resources, group dynamics, and a good planning because these factors can improve teaching English as a second language.