By correcting students after the exercise, you help increase communicative fluency by encouraging a natural flow of conversation that would otherwise be interrupted by frequent correction. Correcting students after the exercise also helps them to focus on the most common mistakes which is useful to all students, not just the student who has made a particular mistake. More on choosing your class materials and approach Use music in class. Music can be incredibly helpful in setting the mood, helping students concentrate, or just improving the spirits of students before they get down to work. Put a recording on before students arrive and watch how students leave their cares behind them as they get ready to concentrate on the learning tasks ahead.
Music provides a wonderful way of refocusing and relaxing at the same time.
More on using music in your classroom Get your students more physically involved in the lesson. Sitting at a desk for a long time can be incredibly boring and cause students to loose attention. Get your students up and walking about, even for just a few moments, and you will be surprised at how the energy level rises in the classroom. Not only do these short breaks help students refocus their energies, but they also improve learning by providing a physical link to the learning taking place at that moment. When all is said and done, most students are learning English in order to be able to communicate in English.