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At the moment of teaching English as a second language to high school students,it has to take into account the motivation as a relevant factor into the learning process of any language. According to Crookes and Schmidt (1991), "Motivation has been identified as the learner's orientation with regard to the goal of learning a second language". It is well known that students who are most successful when learning a foreign language are those who like the people that speak the language, admire the culture and have a desire to become familiar with that language. However, nowadays some teachers consider that teaching English is a matter of writing some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs or repeating some phrases, without take into account that this way of teaching English may turning into a boring experience for teenagers. In order to make an interesting class in an interactive and dynamic way without monotony. teachers need to put a great deal of thought into developing programs which maintain the students interested and then they will obtain more goals. To do so, it is advisable to plan the class, to make dynamic strategies and the audiovisual aids.

First of all, teachers must gain the learner's attention by planning stimulating activities and using a variety of teaching strategies. Teachers must design a great variety of teaching strategies adapted to the necessities of high school student in order to keep their attention, in a confident enviroment to obtain as a result the satisfaction of the teenagers. An excellent teaching strategy, could be some form of reward for students when they do their work well,for example, a reward can be candies, stickers, gifts like pencils, an eraser a little or making them happy by showing that the teacher see their effort to succeed teeenagers feel far more motivated to come class, to participate and as they see that their teacher loves them and values their effort also students feel rewarded when they teacher say Congratulations¡. This is excellent work¡ or something like that in the class book and at the same time parents can take notice of them too.

Second of all, there are a lot of dynamic strategies like games, songs, workshop, speeches, etc, that increase their motivation. For instance, when students sing or translate their favorite song, they feel identified with the content or the topic of that song and also they get familiar with some phrases and while they get a meaningful learning of English language. Also, the speeches serve to encourage the teenager to speak without fear to commit mistakes and the same thing happens with games because teachers can use this strategy to explain some grammar rules in a very interactive way in class into a funny experience .In a friendly enviroment for high school students which is a very profitable for the teacher, because teachers catch the attention of the young students by simulating while the students feel pleasant.

Third, there are different audiovisual aids as computers, DVD player, CD player and overhead projector, etc, that can help the teacher to make a more dynamic class. Also, these resources can let the high school student opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting way without monotony. For high school students it easier to relate an image, a movie, or music and read a grammatical structure. But the audiovisual aids are also profitable for teachers as a tool.For instance if a teacher has a strategy as a role play and teacher can take photos which later are given to them or film the situation and the students and teachers may see the video together and share opinions about their performances in order to create a narrow link between teachers, students trough and audiovisual aid.