The aim of this presentation was to teach first-year primary education majors the benefits of TPR in a bilingual classroom setting. Students were asked to create TPR style activities in response to the scenarios.

1. Michelle C. Bishop
Universidad de Murcia 2019

2. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LEARN?
1. What is TPR?
2. Benefits of TPR
3. How do we use TPR?
4. How can we incorporate TPR in the classroom?
5. Practicing TPR methods

3. WHAT IS TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE?
 Total Physical Response (TPR) is a method of teaching language or vocabulary
concepts by using physical movement to react to verbal input.
 The process mimics the way that infants learn their first language, and it reduces
student inhibitions and lowers stress.The purpose of TPR is to create a brain link
between speech and action to boost language and vocabulary learning.
 It is an effective strategy to use with English Language Learners as well as with
native speakers when learning new words.

4. WHAT IS TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE?
“The instructor is the director of a
stage play in which the students are
the actors”

5. BENEFITS OF TPR
Instant understanding of the target language,regardless of
academic aptitude
Stress-free environment/storytelling
High Speed Long-term retention
Can be used for any age group

6. HOW DO WE USE TPR?
1. Prepare
2. Teacher Modeling
3. Student Modeling
4. Student Participation
5. Writing
6. Repetition and Practice

7. HOW DO WE USE TPR?
What gestures would we use to express these statements?
 You are asking for two of something
 You are promising
 You are telling the other person to stop talking
 You are telling someone that they are crazy
 You are asking for the bill in a restaurant
 You are showing that you don’t like something
 You are showing that you don’t know
 You are telling someone not to be nosy/ to mind their own business
 You are complaining about someone being late

8. HOW DO WE USE TPA?
Put Get/
take
Pick Turn Walk
Throw Look Fall Lie Run
Break Fill Grow Go Give
Sit Ask Sort Move Come

9. CLASSROOM AND TPR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=120&v=rIIVWLLFxEo

10. PRACTICING TPR
Scenario:
A new teacher has to teach the present continuous to a class
of 5th graders. In the previous unit, the students learned
about travel vocabulary.

11. PRACTICING TPR
Scenario:
You have a 2nd grade English class right after recess.The students are less
concentrated,but their oral exam is next week.You have to create a small
story using the following phrases and do a TPR storytelling routine with the
students.
1. Act out the story and have the students mimic.
2. Have a student volunteer to mimic the gestures while you repeat the
story
3. Repeat the story again without using the gestures
4. Finally,pick out different parts of the story and have the students guess.

12. PRACTICING TPR
Scenario:
The students need to learn the following phrases:
wash
your hands
your face
your hair
the cup
look for
a towel
the soap
eat
an apple
soup
sandwich
brush
your teeth
your hair
the cat