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T&T - Fast Learners - Tips For Teachers
T&T - Fast Learners - Tips For Teachers
before moving on to the next. You can start checking an activity once half the students
have finished. Reassure the ones who haven't finished that it is ok - at Kids&Us we
keep a swift pace!
If all the above is not enough, you can give the student extra work. These are examples
of tasks a fast finisher could do:
o (Animal Planet) Write the description of an animal, to be read to the class for
the rest of students to guess (as a riddle)
o (Animal Planet) Depending on the Vocabulary Units we have worked on:
▪ Write a riddle for the class: a garment "you wear this on your... it's made
of...”, a type of food "you eat this for breakfast, it is sweet...”, a job "I spend the
day...”, etc.
▪ Write one item in a vocabulary category starting with each letter of the
alphabet. For example, if we have worked on Food: "Apple, Broccoli, Carrots,
Drinking chocolate, Eggs..."
o (Animal Planet) Write letters to Alex (the course character) telling her about:
▪ your daily life
▪ your home
▪ your family
▪ your hobbies
▪ your school
o AP2 Teacher Guide: PHC#44 A&B (Yes, you can!)
a.2 it can be used for FT1 and FT2 students by making it a bit more difficult:
instead of asking for words, the teacher can ask for sentences that contain this
specific word.
o T&T Guides: Crosswords. They can be adapted and different versions can be
made with vocabulary being worked in class at that moment. By preparing 3 or
4 crosswords at the beginning of each term would be enough. You can find
crosswords creators on the internet as for example:
https://www.education.com/worksheet-generator/reading/crossword-
puzzle/; https://crosswordlabs.com/
o Irregular verbs (AP1-FT2): make different versions of PHC#43.
o Writing tasks (FT2-T6): Give them a white sheet and tell them to write about
something. Depending on the text typology being worked on that specific
course, children will have to write one type of text or another. For example, a
short informal letter in Teens 1.