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The Engage-Study-Activate (ESA) Method of Teaching, Edgar Rolando Sanum…
The Engage-Study-Activate (ESA) Method of Teaching
Engage-Study-Activate (ESA) is the most effective teaching methodology. Teachers who use ESA can productively organize their lessons. Through ESA, students are focused and highly motivated to learn.
The Engage Phase – Warming Up
It is essential to always start a lesson with the engage phase. It is here where students start starting and thinking in English.
The Study Phase – Learning New Things
This phase is mainly the board work of the lesson. It is here where students will learn or review English language topics. Teachers can use textbooks, study materials, videos and drilling exercises to help students learn and use the English language accurately.
The Activate Phase – Using English Practically
The final aspect of an ESL lesson is the activate phase, where students use what they have learned in activities such as role-plays, dialogues, debates and surveys.
Straight-Arrow ESA Lesson
The most common application of the ESA method, teachers simply start with the engage phase and end with the activate phase.
Phases
Engage: Discussion of different jobs and occupations.
Use pictures to elicit adjectives based on appearance. As students say adjectives, write the opposites.
E.g. tall-short, fat-thin, young-old, etc.
List around 10-12 words on the board.
Explain that adjectives can be used to describe appearances and then give an example of a comparative adjective.
Activate: Role-play as different types of people e.g lawyer, police officer, firefighter, etc.
Activity #1
Each student gets a card with a random name and fact.
Each student gets a fact sheet headed with “name” and “fact”.
Teach students how to ask these questions.
What is your name?
What is your fact?
Students go around the class and ask their classmates these questions, filling in the sheet as they go.
Study: Use boardwork and worksheets to enhance students’ vocabulary and understanding of different jobs.
Activity #1
Create three columns and write the list of adjectives in the first column.
Ask students for the comparative forms of the adjectives and write them down in the second column.
In the third column, explain how to create the comparative form by writing (adjective + er) or (more + adjective)
Edgar Rolando Sanum Marroquin
