SUGGESTIONS TO ENGLISH TEACHERS

1. Teach all the skills listed in the syllabus.

2. List all the grammatical items that should be taught and make sure students master them.

3. Motivate students to use the language in their everyday activities.

4. Teach simple sentences and ensure they master them before proceeding to compound.

5. Equip students with suggested vocabulary listed in the syllabus.

6. Create meaningful English environment inside and outside the classroom.

7. Make English lessons fun and interesting.

8. Give the students more practices in spelling and dictation.

9. Bear in mind that creative and critical thinking skills are to be emphasized in exercises and practices
given to students.

10. Be a good role model and have a close rapport with your students.

11. Cultivate a love for the language by adopting and adapting a variety of teaching methods and
strategies. This will prevent students from having the notion that English is a boring and difficult subject.

12. Teach English as a language and not as a tool to answer exam questions.

13. Avoid drilling stereotyped sentence patterns. Students should not be made to memorise words,
phrases and sentences. Let them flourish in the language by themselves using simple English.

14. Enhance your own proficiency by using the language yourself.

15. Try model writing for the average and slow learners. Avoid drilling stereotyped sentence patterns.

16. Provide more samples of UPSR format questions and drill the students.

17. Teachers need to stress and train students to read and follow the rubrics and instructions carefully.

18. Teach or encourage highfliers to use more adjectives, adverbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbs and
similes in a variety of sentence structures.

19. Help pupils gain confidence in the learning of English through games, spelling competitions, role-
play, songs and jazz chants. Make learning English fun