GIMMICKS

//Note: for these gimmicks to be most effective, it is necessary to teach the desired responses and reinforce the first few times until it becomes habit. //

a. what better way to psych a kid up for a presentation than a theme song...just like the baseball players that go up to bat! b. www.mp3cut.net will also help you or your students create their own 10 second theme song from any mp3!
 * 11. Theme Songs (Noah Geisel) **

c. Noah Geisel has great ideas for doing this for individual students as well. He also has a tutorial at []

a. Remind your kids that everything you say is the most interesting thing they’ve ever heard. Request ‘oooh’s’ and ‘aaaaah’s’s when you make statements or reveal new information. b. select a student in the class to act as the ‘tv audience’ coach, holding up the ‘oooh! sign at the appropriate times.
 * 12. ****Ohhhhh! Aaaaaaaaaahhh! (Blaine Ray) **



a. Anytime you need to add meaning to a particular word, have a student who responds in a way that makes the meaning clear. For example, in a second language class, whenever you say ‘who’ in the target language, a student pops up and says ‘means who’ in English. b. This also works with sound effects. In my class, we inevitably have a cow in a target language story so we had auditions for moo-ing, and now each time I say ‘cow’ in the target language, the student moo’s. In history class, each time something ‘bad’ is discussed, ‘du-du-duuum’ is exclaimed.
 * 13. One-Word Responses (Ben Slavic) **



a. keep the kids practicing numbers by asking ‘how many?’ and following up with a little more or a little less until they have guessed some random number like 37.5
 * 14 .5 **