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Description
Many classrooms face issues like boring lessons, low student participation, and repetitive textbook structures. When students lose interest, teachers often find it hard to stay motivated. This presentation introduces four fun and practical activities—Gallery Walk, Writing a Story, Board Game, and Head Up!—designed to keep students active and engaged. These activities offer many ways to engage students: Gallery Walk gets students moving while practicing language, Writing a Story encourages creativity, Board Games make review sessions more enjoyable, and Head Up! boosts vocabulary and speaking skills. This presentation is aimed at English teachers working with learners at A1 to B2 levels. Participants will explore how to use these activities to make their classrooms more interactive and enjoyable. The goal is to create a learning environment where both students and teachers feel excited and motivated to teach and learn.
Biography
Seng Seavmeng is an English lecturer at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). He holds a B.Ed (Hons) in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from IFL, RUPP. Alongside teaching, Seavmeng supervises student research projects and collaborates on research with his institution and international NGOs. His main research interests include learning motivation, cooperative learning, and the use of ICT in education. Drawing on his teaching and research expertise, he strives to help teachers create more interactive and engaging classrooms that boost both student participation and teacher motivation.
HENG Makara, holding a Master's Degree in TESOL, has been working extensively in the field of English language education for non-native speakers for years. Currently, in addition to teaching English at the Department of English, IFL, he is also conducting action research in the field of English Education. He is an active member of Community of Practice (CoP) and one of the speakers in CamELT conference. He puts much attention on learner autonomy to mastery of language acquisition and on AI integration in ESL classrooms.
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