[tracey777]

I am in the same boat too. Two of my classes are awful...many students turn up for weeks and when they do they are eiter so far behind or have no interest in learning! Many of them are disruptive and simply can not understand that the more they learn the more fun we can have in class.

Sometimes I try to play games with them and it works for apx 5-10 minutes (if I am lucky) after that they start to chat and lose interest. There are a few who want to learn and I feel so bad for them, instead of having a fun teacher who makes English fun they have a teacher who can only get the class to work when they are copying or searching for words in a dictionary. Stranegly enough if I give these activites the sit and do it quietly all lesson.

So my advice would be to try a few of these lessons and then build up to adding some simple vocabulary games in, then a little more talking and so on. THis is my next step,I hope it works for me and that the children can see English can be so much mre fun with a little effort from everyone.

[Sibela]

Hi!
I'm facing the same problem as you but with younger kids, as I teach 1st,2nd and 3rd grades.
With younger kids there are things that we could do, such as: talk to them alone, tell them that you will talk to their parents(this is something they fear) and I also use a behaviour chart.
In each lesson every student gets a face on the chart( a sad face if they don't behave or a smiling face if they behave and work).By the end of the month the students with more smiling faces get a prize( candies or something small but they enjoy it).
So far my students are getting better behaviours.

Good luck!