CEFR level: A1 | Recommended Age: 6-12 years | Duration: ~15–25 minutes
Vocabulary: to read, to do, to use, to listen, a book, homework, a computer, music | Grammar: present continuous tense (affirmative and negative) | Speaking skills: describing currently occurring actions
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It would be better to have each vocabulary word with a picture on a separate slide so that students can focus on one piece of vocabulary at a time
Hi Andrei, thanks for the suggestion!
These trial classes are intended to provide an insight into the main core curriculum lessons, so are laid out in the same format. We usually have multiple new words per slide (3-4 or so), as this allows you to more easily make comparisons between words (e.g. identifying common prefixes / suffixes), encourage students to make sentences combining multiple words, review multiple words with active recall activities (e.g. cover up the words with boxes, ask the student to say what each picture means in turn, without having to keep switching slides), etc. It also keeps the number of slides per lesson more manageable and easier to move through, thus keeping up a sense of pace.
You can use the zoom function to zoom in on one particular word if you would prefer to draw your student’s attention to a single word at a time.
I hope this helps!
Katie