Principles of Oral and Listening English lessons 2 Maximum of students’ involvement. Encouragement students to talk regardless if they want to. Students may be shy, lazy, tired of playing online games for a whole night, used to stay passive, listening a teacher or just pretending to be listening, regardless of this, our goal remains the same – to make them talk, practice English, use their vocabulary. During oral English lessons, not a teacher, but students are supposed to talk and talk as much as possible. Possible methods: - Persuasion, admonition. Try to explain what should students do and, the most important, why they should do it. Why English is important and they should acquire English language to survive in modern world. Why practice is crucial to acquire English and so forth. - Personal example. Teacher must look like role model for students. Alpha male, flock leader. A person they wish to listen and follow and would ever respect. - Award bonuses for activeness and sanctions for passiveness. - Build up creative, trusted, friendly atmosphere. - Select topics, mostly actual and interesting for students. If necessary, ask their opinion. - Proper teaching materials, as said above. • Maximum of conversation work. As most of language use is conversational, lessons must include as mush conversations as possible. As a base of reading class is a text, a base or speaking class must be a dialog, conversation. • Modeling real-life situations. Conversations must be helpful for students to be prepared to situations in a real life, everyday life. • Encourage students, apply all the possible incentives. Reward them for activeness, regardless of their speech correctness. It's not grammar lesson. There is a number of encouragement methods like - public oral praise, - written praise, - applause, - point and ranking system with prizes, presented in given time and so on, - even threat to complain their parents may be effective • Minimize direct grammar mistakes correction. Only pronunciation errors matter and sometimes need to be corrected in a soft manner. • Strive to overcome cultural trait of "face" at least, during English lessons. Except of methods, given above, also proverbs and quotes of old Chinese wise men may be used as well as evidences if famous polyglots (e.g., show interviews of famous people and polyglots, speaking about importance of mistakes in learning, including learning languages).