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The school year is over and the teachers are thinking about professional development courses or looking at the materials for their classroom environment.

This site offers you lesson plans, tips and ideas how to encourage your students to lear English more effectively. Go to www.tefl.net

Here is a tip about eliciting:

Instead of giving information, ask if anyone in the class can provide it. When a student asks "What does this mean?" or "What's the past of this verb?" etc. say something like "That's a good question - what do you think?" Can you guess? Can anyone help Maria here?"

If you want to teach some vocabulary, for instance, then rather than giving it to the students, try to get them to give it to you. For example: I want to teach the word "cow". I could draw a little picture on the board. I could explain what a cow is. Or I could elicit the word from the students along these lines: "What do we call/What's the word for an animal which makes milk and goes "mooo"?! With any luck the students will say "cow". There you go - I've elicited the word "cow" from the students. I didn't say it to them - they said it to me; that's eliciting.

[ekena]

Thank you! It's interesting and useful.

[men]

Thanks a lot! It's really very useful!