9: Use the whiteboard for key words and phrases - Top 10 tips for teaching english conversation

49 ESL Conversation Games & Activities - Jackie Bolen 2020

9: Use the whiteboard for key words and phrases
Top 10 tips for teaching english conversation

Just because students have seen some vocabulary or a new grammar concept once or twice doesn't mean that they're going to remember it or be able to recall it when necessary. A way that we can help them is by writing the key vocabulary words or phrases on one side of the whiteboard and leave them up there for the entire class for students to refer to if necessary.

This is especially important for beginners because they often don't have the scaffolding in place in their brains to connect new material to, as our more advanced level students would. Gradually, as students become more proficient at using those particular words or grammatical constructs, we can stop putting them on the board and challenge students to recall them on their own.