CROSS THE LINE

by Laura Antolin Antolin

If you are a trainee teacher like me. I recommend you to this activity that it will be useful when you start a class with new students.

Across the classroom you have to paste a piece of tape that separates the classroom in two parts. After this you have to show your students that they have to cross the line when you say a question that is related with their life. Give an example how they have to do the activity.

Then, you have to tell your students that the halves of the group have to stay far from the line, and you as a teacher have to say: Cross the line if you like to go to the cinema? , and if their students consider that the question is according with their life they have to cross the line, and their partners have to see where of their classmates like to go to the cinema. You can ask for different things

This kind of activity is flexible because you could use all kind of questions, obviously it will be according with the topic that you are teaching. But when you start a class you could see the interests of your students. I used this amazing activity when I went to practice in the Secondary School and my students love it.