When it comes to my teaching techniques, actually in my classroom, there are many activities I would do, like jazz chants, Kahoot games, Jeopardy, and TPR exercise etc. But essentially, the goal of all these activities, is trying to inspire the students to find learning English an interesting journey; is trying to open them up and encourage them to embrace the knowledge with open arms. That’s because, having an open mind that’s ready and excited to learn, is actually very different from having their doors shut down to a certain subject or class. That's actually quite important. If you make a student feel that he's ready to learn, he will absolutely take in more knowledge, absorb and retain more in the longer run. But if a student chooses to shut down their door and decides not to open to you, they're not going to get anything. 

For example, Jazz chants, as an in-classroom technique, is created by an American language teaching expert Carolyn Graham. The application of it is actually very broad, a very practical tool. It allows to turn any vocabulary, any grammar points that students need to memorize into a chant. Some stuff, that can be quite boring and hard to memorize in the first place, can be turned into something very groovy, full of rhythms and fun. This is very helpful to the young learners, because their brains are being very responsive to things that have certain rhythms and patterns. Students really enjoy that and we can even make some music out of it. It helps students intuitively gain the knowledge that they are required to learn.

Another technique that I would use in my classroom is called TPR, which stands for Total Physical Response. It asks students to fully engage all their body parts and use some physical movement to react to certain verbal input. It can enable the students to consolidate the sound of the word to the meaning of the word.