Reading_Teaching aids in the
classroom
READING 1: TEACHING AIDS IN THE CLASSROOM
1. Definitions
Teaching aids are any type of object that can be used in the educational
environment to enhance the learning experience of students and make it
easier for teachers to teach topics in an interesting manner.
2. Importance of Teaching Aids
- Make learning fun: colorful visuals, interactive games, and interesting
videos, ...- Teach complex concepts easily: visual aids, videos, and
whiteboard, ...
- Help students remember information longer: models, graphs, audio, ...
- Improve students’ language skills: listening skills (audio, videos, ...);
writing skills (writing prompts, ...), ...
3. Types of Teaching Aids and Their Uses
3.1. Visual aids
a. Presentation slides, images, diagrams (graphs, charts, maps), videos,
flashcards, ...)
- Benefits: clarify by visualizing concepts, attract students’ attention
- Recommended uses: to introduce new concepts or new vocabulary
b. Interactive whiteboard
- Benefits: promote interaction between teachers and students
- Recommended uses: to give examples, explanations, or introduce
contents derived from the original materials that have not been prepared
in advance
c. Writing prompts
- Benefits: provide writing guide, make writing tasks more interesting.
- Recommended uses: to teach writing skills
3.2. Audio teaching aids
- Examples: audios of texts, songs, videos, ...
- Benefits: improve listening and understanding skills, help students learn
attentively
- Recommended uses: to introduce new vocabulary, organize a warm-up
activity, teach listening and speaking skills
3.3. Interactive aids
- Examples: educational apps, quizzes, or fun games, ...
- Benefits: make the lessons more interesting, and make students more
engaged in the lessons.
- Recommended uses: to design quizzes or mini-tests, to practice or
review grammar and vocabulary
4. How to Use Teaching Aids to Teach
Recommended
Steps Pur
aids
Visual aids (Images, - To visualize the concepts to
Presentation Flashcards, Videos) contents more easily without u
Introduce the new content
Audio teaching aids - To introduce the contents ora
- To make practice fun
Practice Interactive aids
- To help students remember b
Give students controlled tasks
to practice newly learnt
Interactive - To check students’ works
content
whiteboard - To explain further
Production - To give students instructions
Writing prompts
to produce writing pieces
Recycle the newly learnt
Interactive aids
content - To produce language in an in
Examples: (Học liệu trong chương trình do Edupia đặc biệt thiết kế)
Lead in
- For question 2 in Exercise 1, teachers can collect
Vietnamese people’s meals from the Internet and
food Vietnamese people often have for breakfast,
teachers to provide some hints to students withou
as activate students’ prior knowledge better.
Pre-listening
In order to pre-teach the vocabulary before listeni
and pictures of the words in Exercise 2. It will help
vocabulary without using the first language.
Listening
Teachers use the audio teaching aids (the audio o
practice and improve their listening skills. When c
teachers can pause the recording several times an
they have just heard. It could improve students’ li
their pronunciation.
Writing
To help students, especially weak students, to wri
teachers should provide them with writing prompt
1. What time do people in your area have breakfa
2. What time do people in your area have lunch? W
3. What time do people in your area have dinner?
4. How do you feel about the eating habits in your
5. Do you recommend anything to people in your
their eating habits?