This document discusses using music, drawings, displays, and movement-based activities in the classroom according to the teaching method of Suggestopedia. It explains that music can help change moods and relax the body. Drawings can help students focus and generate language. Displays in hallways and classrooms can also aid learning. Brain Gym techniques like "hook ups," "cross crawl," and "brain buttons" integrate both sides of the brain through simple movements. The document provides examples of Suggestopedia lesson plans and claims that using this method students can learn a foreign language much faster than through traditional methods.

1. Why to use
Suggestopedia in
English Classes

2. Using
Music in
the
Classroom

3. Bodily Responses to Music
• Used to change a person’s mood.
• Rhythm helps autist children.
• Heart beat and pulse are relaxed when listening
to Classical or Baroque Music.

4. Music on Memory and Learning
• Activates the left brain while the music
activates the right brain.
• Playing an instrument or singing, causes the
brain to be more capable of processing
information.

5. George Lozanov
• Designed a way to teach
foreign languages in a
fraction of the normal
learning time.

6. Neuropsychologist Robert Zattore
• “I can see how rhythm and physical action
would have mutual resonance in the nervous
system. All sound is produced by movement.
When you hear a sound it’s because something
has moved.” The rhythm of song creates a
pattern that the brain can understand and then
organize muscles to join in….
It’s a “social glue.”

7. King George I

8. Handel
• Water
Music

9. Mozart
• Sonata for
Two
Pianos in
D Major

10. Bach
• Air
On the G
string

11. Pachelbel
• Cannon in
D Major

12. Dave Brubeck
• Take Five

13. Using
Drawings
in the
Classroom

14. http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/bldrawing.htm
www.picturingtolearn.org
• A quick sketch helps
students focus and
generate language.
• They also take the
sketches as cues.

15. Using
Displays
in the
Classroom

16. Hallway Displays
http://usefulwiki.com/displays/category/halls-and-
corridor-displays/

18. Using
Brain Gym
in the
Classroom

19. What is Brain Gym?
• “Brain Gym® is an educational, movement
based, 'Learning Enhancement' programme
which uses simple movements to integrate the
whole brain, senses and body, preparing the
person with the physical skills they need to learn
effectively. Brain Gym can be used to improve a
wide range of learning, attention and behaviour
skills.
www.wholebrainsolutions.com

20. 1. Stand or sit. Cross the right leg over the left at the
ankles.
2. Take your right wrist and cross it over the left wrist
and link up the fingers so that the right wrist is on top.
3. Bend the elbows out and gently turn the fingers in
towards the body until they rest on the sternum (breast
bone) in the center of the chest. Stay in this position.
4. Keep the ankles crossed and the wrists crossed and
then breathe evenly in this position for a few minutes.
You will be noticeably calmer after that time.
"Hook Ups"

21. "Cross Crawl"
1. Stand or sit. Put the right hand across the body
to the left knee as you raise it, and then do the
same thing for the left hand on the right knee
just as if you were marching.
2. Just do this either sitting or standing for about
2 minutes.

22. "Brain Buttons"
1. Put one hand so that there is as wide a space as
possible between the thumb and index finger.
2. Place your index and thumb into the slight
indentations below the collar bone on each side
of the sternum. Press lightly in a pulsing
manner.
3. At the same time put the other hand over the
navel area of the stomach. Gently press on
these points for about 2 minutes.

24. Drinking Water In The Classroom

25. Structure of a Class
1. Preparatory Stage
2. First Concert: Active Concert
3. Second Concert: Passive Review
4. Practice

26. Example of a Lesson Plan
• Active Concert: A story
A song
A dialogue
(Read out loud by the teacher)
• Music is also played in the background
• Passive Concert: Students concentrate on
understanding the story .
• Practice: Team work, pair work, individually.
• Summary: Conclusions.

27. http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/lal/japanesemain/private.
kaz.invitation.sp.html
http://www.jalt-
publications.org/tlt/files/97/feb/suggest.html
“Speaking from personal experience, I can say that this
works. I took a three hour demonstration class with Dr.
Donald Schuster. See Schuster and Gritton(1986) for a
description of the methodology used. In the three hours we
learned the Russian alphabet, the basic sentence
structures, and 156 words. On the test at the end of the
class I got 98%. During the following week I did not use
Russian and did not even think much about the class; I
was busy with other things. However, a week later
someone reminded me to take a follow up test, actually a
repeat of the same test. This time I got 99.5%. Other
students from the class reported similar results”

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