Lesson VI

Today a lesson for a teacher. Yeah, teacher is a person who also need to spread its knowledge till he-she can!

How to get your students to stop translating and start thinking in English?

Students do not often translate things in their heads before answering you. You do not hear often students who provide a natural-sounding reply, spontaneously and automatically. Chances are most of your students still translate in their heads. Your point and goal is to teach them think in English not to translate everything from their mother langauge into English. This is really hard thing to achieve. In this post I will explain to you how to teach them thinking in English, that is why they will no need to tranlsate everything in theirs heads. They want to learn to speak English, not become translators. Even though thos basics will be very usefull to became a translator someday, because this ability will introduce them to the world of translation. KEY WORDS  It is very uncomfotable and very tiring to think in their native langauge and translate it into the Engslih, is the most common reason why students are making mistakes.
It stops spreading a flowing way in speaking English.
Some things are simply too hard to translate.


TIPS
1
English Dicionary
Try to give to your students an English-English dictionary. The explanation of the definitions will quickly stay in their head.

2
Actors
You can use other tecnics to learn something your students. Instead of writing words on the blackboard try to act with them. Show them a sad face while speaking about bad mood, they will remeber the gestures and mimics much faster than what they wrote in the note books.

3
Context
Most of the time teacher have no idea if the class or a group is understanding everything what is on blackboard or what he-she says. That is why ithis is important to ask them about the words they have in the lessson and reapeat with them at least twice or more. Ask every of them about at least one word you will sure that even they will not remeber them all, one word is better than nothing.

4
Phrases

Apart from the separte word the whole phrases are much imporant. With help of them they will faster get English as fluent and flowing language.

Share with me in the comments what do you think and what is your way to teaching!