Eliciting: Speaking

Okay, Last time we have talked about "how opening the class". Now i will share about eliciting. Firstly i will tell you about eliciting (in my words) ;) . Eliciting is something like activities before we start the lesson. Usually eliciting consist of games or fun activities. But you have to consider that eliciting must has connection with the lesson. eliciting become part to introduce what is students learn today. Analogy, in sport eliciting is a warming up, in eating eliciting is a appetizer. See?

Now, i will share eliciting for speaking skills. but I narrow the topic become Simple Past tense. Check it out:

Ball of Sentences

Tools and Preparation :
1. Mini plastic ball
2. Marker


Steps :
1. Ask each student to think one verb, any kind of verb.
2. Throw the ball to the students randomly, student who gets the ball has to tell their word in past verb.
3. Teacher write that verb in the board.
4. Repeat it again, throw the ball to the students randomly, and the ask the student who gets the ball to tell their own verb.
5. Limit the the verb word, 10 or 15 verbs.
6. After that, throw the ball again the the students, this time student who gets the ball has to make a sentence from the first word.
7. Repeat it again, but the second student has to make word that has connection with the previous sentence.
8. Do it until the last word, and we will have one story consist of 10 or 15 sentences.
9. Ask two students to go to in front of the class. one student read the story and the others act like artist appropriate with the sentence.




What are they doing?

Tools :

1. Papers
2. Old newspapers or magazines
3. Scissor
4. Glue

Preparation:
1. Find picture that show someone is doing something.
2. example; picture of someone is smoking, cut it and glue it in the papers.
3. make 15 or 20 picture.


Steps
1. Teacher divided the group become some group.
2. Teacher shows one picture to one group, and that group has to make one sentence use past tense with that picture example; smoking person picture; sentence my father smoked in my bedroom.
3. If that group can answers so they will get the score, if the group can not answers the question, it will be throw to the others group.
4. group that have the highest score will win the game.

Hope it useful !!!