CELTA Classroom Management Giving brilliant instructions

One of the areas that trainee and novice teachers often struggle with is giving effective instructions for activities. Here are some helpful hints on how to ace this area of classroom management and some of the pitfalls to avoid. If you like this, check out the FREE CELTA Toolkit at 00:00 An antiexample 01:09 Introduction why are good instructions important 03:05 Starting off 03:31 Don t say it s tricky 04:00 Overpoliteness 05:29 Commentating 06:11 Being longwinded 06:54 Too many instructions 07:44 Tricky language 08:04 Do you understand 09:14 How to give better instructions 09:18 Plan 09:40 Get attention 10:53 Be clear 11:38 Be succinct 12:06 Checking understanding 12:22 Task or instructions first