Praise dominant students for encouraging shy ones to speak + get
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Keep your language simple, use a lot of gestures and signals, pause often
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Monitor receptive skills practice as carefully as you monitor speaking or writing tasks
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Praise as much as you can to boost their feeling of achievement
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Use stronger students to support the weaker ones / give feedback / correct errors
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boom
Lose 50 points!
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shark
Other team loses 25 points!
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lifesaver
Give 25 points!
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Think carefully what to correct and when and how you should do it
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heart
Other team wins 10 points!
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gift
Win 5 points!
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fairy
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thief
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Nominate weaker students to answer easier questions
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Encourage learner autonomy and your studentsโ work outside class: e.g. set up Google classroom and share different kinds of of homework for different levels of students there;
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Dominant students can dominate for only a certain amount of time
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Pair up weak with weak and lower your expectations
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Never compare studentsโ performances
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Be sensitive to your studentsโ moods: be ready to sometimes throw your lesson plan out of the window and teach Dogme
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Demonstrate the activity with weaker students several times