Visual Aids

1. Create a list of visual aids that teachers can use in the classroom.

• projector
• video
• iPad
• tab book
• map
• poster
• chart
• Realia

2. What is the value of using visual aids in the language classroom?

3. Using the Board

• Basic Principles:
  Finger writing/ Arm writing
  alian             Alian           ALAIN(대문자는 강조시에)
  
  

4. Realia

• Real objects in the classroom or brought into the classroom.
• Easiest kind of visual aid; no special preparation required.
• Used to teach vocabulary, practice a structure, or used as prompts for developing a story or dialogue. 
• Often more interesting than material from text books and can be on objects that will really engage the students. 
  
• Students can see, hear, and in some cases touch the objects.

What realia could be used to help teach the following:

~Introducing students to the topic of Christmas

~Presenting the present perfect tense

~Reviewing expressions of colour, shape, size

~Practicing functional language in a dialogue/role play asking for a bus schedule

5. Pictures

6. Flash cards
   : review for student remember, prompt, several sentence word, picture, create conversation. 

A picture is with worth a 1000 words. 

7. Worksheets

• Worksheets should: 
  They can write lots of things they can do as a reference

8. Multimedia (cartoons, power point, iPad)

• Advantages: 
1. resourceful
2. help to understand easily (effective)
3. stimulate interesting 
4. eye catching
5. alive
6. motion
7. colorful
   
   
• Disadvantages: 
  
1. limit opportunity thinking
2. less interaction
3. strict imagination
4. electricity

9. Teacher : to be the visual aid. thinking, imagination.