The ONLY WAY to BECOME FLUENT in A LANGUAGE is BY USING IT. I have therefore created A SONG TO MEMORISE EXPRESSIONS regarding housework, A CARD GAME TO CONSOLIDATE these expressions and A FILM WITH QUESTIONS TO TEST how well they have been retained.
The results are surprising: students are constantly engaged, having fun and learning a lot! I hope you find this useful. Please leave any comments below and if you like this blog, please subscribe for more updates. Susan 
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GETTING TEENAGERS INVOLVED in English LESSONS is a difficult task since this is an age when many lack motivation for things which they are relatively interested in. In fact my best students are the ones who love watching YouTubers in English, listen & sing songs in English and are generally active on social networks with people they ‘meet’ from around the globe.
So this lesson on Social Media worked surprisingly well in my class of 13 year-old teenagers, some of whom do not usually like participating actively in English conversation.
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The students participated actively and it was an overall successful lesson. Try it out for yourselves! I hope you find this useful. Please leave any comments below and if you like this blog, please subscribe for more updates. Susan
 How can we GET STUDENTS to LEARN A LANGUAGE BY USING IT so that they BECOME CONFIDENT and FLUENT? First of all LEARNING has to be FUN for younger students and at least ENJOYABLE for adults.
    
 The results are amazing because they not only create sentences easily but also practise the use of the 3rd person and consequently have to remember the addition of the ‘s’. The games I have been using recently are a complete success in the amount of fun the students have not only playing but managing to create a lot of correct sentences with the pronouns I, he & she, the frequency adverbs and a time expression. I have introduced affirmative, negative & question dice for older and more proficient students. I recommend trying it out for yourselves! Check out my latest Household Chores Routine Song for some language to make playing cards with, as well as my recent Morning, Afternoon, Sports & Clothes Routine Songs I hope you find this useful. Please leave any comments below and if you like this blog, please subscribe for more updates. Susan
 LEARNING A LANGUAGE BY USING IT is really the only way to become confident and fluent – so ACTION-SONGS represent a fun, repetitive and meaningful way to learn natural expressions easily. Even adults enjoy them if they can overcome the feeling that they are too old for this kind of activity.
As a follow-up to the latest new ACTION songs I created a couple of weeks ago, I decided to involve my students in creating flashcards for the expressions so as to consolidate them in their minds. They subsequently played SNAP with the cards with the added fun of a bell when they could think of a complete sentence using this expression. The results were amazing because they not only created sentences about themselves but also about their family members, resulting in the use of the 3rd person and consequently having to remember the addition of the ‘s’. The games were a complete success in the amount of fun they had not only playing but managing to create a lot of correct sentences with the pronouns I, he & she. I recommend trying it out for yourselves! See my ACTION-SONGS on my YouTube Channel. For example: MORNING ROUTINE song for kids AFTERNOON / EVENING ROUTINE song for kids SPORTS Routine Song for kids CLOTHES Routine Song for kids PREPOSITION Chant DAILY ROUTINE Song DIRECTIONS Chant I hope you find this useful. Please leave any comments below and if you like this blog, please subscribe for more updates. Susan  Years of experience teaching students of all ages and levels, I find recurring basic mistakes even in fluent adult speakers such as “I’m sorry I didn’t make my homeworks .” My quest is therefore to instill a natural feeling for the correct language by creating ACTION SONGS which should be so repetitive that students will come out with the correct expressions naturally, like a native would. Obviously the best starting point is with children. I have therefore created various new ACTION songs, the first two of which I’d like to share here, apologising for my terrible singing voice on the videos but the objective is to teach language and get the students to learn spontaneously having fun. There is nothing new in the words of these action songs compared to already existing versions except that I get them to shout out the previously sung actions after each line of the song so as to revise the words and pronunciation, fixing them in their minds. The final step is to get them to draw the pictures of the actions they have just learnt, thus consolidating the expressions. I hope you find this useful. Please leave any comments below and if you like this blog, please subscribe for more updates. Susan
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