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TEACHING ADOLESCENTS

Contents
1. Characteristics of adolescents
2. How to attract adolescents
3. Teaching method
4. Problems when teaching adolescents

I. Characteristics of adolescents

SHORT ATTENTION
SPAN

I. Characteristics of adolescents

VERY ACTIVE

I. Characteristics of adolescents

ENJOY LEARNING THROUGH


PLAYING

I. Characteristics of adolescents

IMAGINATIVE

II- HOW TO ATTRACT ADOLESCENTS


1. Basic principles:
Keeping discipline.
Their interests are key.
Hone your empathy.
Create a strong rapport .

2. Activities:
Appropriate
Fun, effective
Not too long, easy
Diversified
Curiosity, challenge
Flexible
Games, quizzes, jokes
Storytelling
Group work
Role-playing and acting
Exercises-test
Seminar, presentation, discussion..

II- HOW TO ATTRACT ADOLESCENTS


3. Materials:
Pictures, songs, video, movies, short stories-poems, fun drills,
newspaper-magazines
Various and relevant topic.
Life connection.

III. TEACHING METHOD


1. Communicative Language Teaching
2. Direct Method
3. Audio Lingual method
4. Techniques for teaching pronunciation

III. TEACHING METHOD

III. TEACHING METHOD

III. TEACHING METHOD

III. TEACHING METHOD


TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

- Drills
- Making Stress
- Correcting Adults
- Demonstrating how sounds are made
- Pronunciation homework

IV. Problems when teaching adolescents

Students may not pay attention for long


Students challenge teachers authority
Students are inactive in class activities

IV. Problems when teaching adolescents


Students may not pay attention for long
Day dreaming or disturbing the teaching process
Change Ts teaching style and method to avoid boredom.
Games: make learning fun
Songs: arouse the students interest
Topics: associated with their interests, likes and dislikes,

IV. Problems when teaching adolescents


Students challenge teachers authority
For example: students break a minor rule by

throwing rubbish around and are caught.


Teacher can give punishment to impose
discipline and show of authority.
Creating resentment and being challenged
by adolescent students.
They need reasoning. Explain to them that
it is wrong.

IV. Problems when teaching adolescents


Students are inactive in class activities:
Giving positive feedback
Allocate a percentage of their final grade to participation in class activities & let students know about it.

Students feel shy

Class activities: boring or pitched at wrong level

Re-design your activities.

REFERENCES
Cameron, L., 2001, Teaching languages to young learners, Cambridge

University Press.
Harmer, J. ,2007, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson
Longman.
Lindstromberg, S., 1996, Language Activities for Teenagers,
Cambridge University Press.
Puchta, H., 1993, Teaching Teenagers: Model Activity Sequences for
Humanistic Language Learning, United Kingdom, Longman.
http://farwaniya03.tripod.com/id6.html
http://pearsonclassroomlink.com/articles/1212/1212_0202.htm
http://really-learn-english.com/teaching-english-to-teenagers.html
https://teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-speaking-skills-2overcoming-classroom-problems

Thank you for your attention

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