2018/08/05 Aleda Krause

Simple Activities to Engage Students

by Aleda Krause

The best classes are almost always the simplest ones. Teachers are not stressed, students are confident and involved, and everyone knows what's happening and what they're supposed to do. Teachers need a set of successful activities that they can adapt to different classes in order to have these simple lessons. Gunma JALT attendees were introduced to not one, not two, but 17(!) simple activities for English lessons with young learners.

Aleda Krause is a teacher and teacher trainer. Her students are all ages: preschool to senior citizens, including university students learning to be teachers of children. She is the author of SuperKids, a 6-level EFL series for elementary-school children, SuperTots, a 3-level EFL series for kindergarteners, and the Longman Children’s Picture Dictionary.