Hello and welcome to my new post, in this post I will tell you the six essential tips that you should always keep in mind when you want to teach English to children, before we start I like to tell you that I created a complete guide that includes all the steps, stages, instructions games that you will need to deliver your very first ESL lesson with young learners.
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Tip No.1: keep the language as simple as possible
When you speak keep the language as simple as possible like:
Hi kids, How are you?
Hi kids what’s up?
Hi kids How’s it going?
Hello kids How have you been?
Hello How are you?
How are you? Are you happy?
Are you sad? how are you?
Every time you talk to children every time you speak to your students try to use repetition try to develop a certain language awareness for children it’s really difficult to understand what you’re asking them in fact English, it’s not their first language so my advice is to keep structures simple try to use always the same expressions in order not to get them confused.
Tip No.2: Be fun and dramatic
Examples:
Children here we have a spider it’s a spider, how many legs does the spider have?
Oh my gosh kids oh no, I’m too scared.
Okay okay all right, it’s a spider, it’s a spider oh my gosh.
Look one leg, two legs, three and then four, oh i’m so scared.
when you introduce new vocabulary it’s always very fun more fun for children if you bring in objects and not just flash cards but also you want to entertain them all right the best way to entertain them is to create a sort of suspense that will really engage them pretend to be scared, pretend to be overexcited, pretend to be overtired that will really really help you during the lesson to keep their attention.
Tip No.3: Always change the tone of your voice
Examples:
What is it?
It’s soup.
It’s soup what is this?
It’s fish.
It’s fish.
One two three it’s soup now let’s see fast one two three it’s soup one two three soup.
Now slow one two three it’s soup.
Again one two three it’s soup and now very quiet one two three it’s soup.
Changing the tone of your voice will really help you to keep the attention of all of your students and also you can use it as a way to have them practice so for example after they whisper the target language they can say it very loud one two three it’s soup and they will all scream.
Tip No.4: Be in control of the class
Don’t be shy, Examples:
Come on kids, sit down kids , please, be quiet.
Please kids come on, be quiet, be quiet.
One two three zip your mouth, zip it.
Okay you unzip your mouth okay what do you want to say?
To be in control of the class is essential. every class is different all the students of course are different but you want to find some ways that will be fun and they will be very effective. they can be very effective for example: Pretending to zip their mouths will work I promise.
Tip No.5: keep the lesson student centered
For Example:
Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy and every day the boy would Come and he would gather her leaves.
All right, let’s begin
Once there was a ……….
What is it? it’s a tree
Yes
Please, tom turn the page, turn the page.
And she loved a little …………
Sam, Sam, turn the page oh
Is it a boy or a girl, is it a boy or a girl?
It’s a boy.
And every day the boy would come
So what’s this?
The tree and the boy
What’s gonna happen?
oh and he would gather her leaves.
keeping the lesson student centered will be a great opportunity for your children for your students to practice the language so you don’t want to do a frontal lesson you don’t want to be boring again. you want to involve them in the learning process. it will help you and both.
Tip No.6: Be sensitive be a nice person
All right
um Sally, What color is this?
No No It’s not red No come on No No No
No hey Sally what color is it?
Red
No it’s not red what is it?
Think about it.
Yeah yeah
Yellow
Good job one two three high five.
When a child makes a mistake try not to make them feel bad about it otherwise they will stop talking and they will stop trying so always try to praise them and
encourage them to try again and just be very flexible in general be nice. All right be sensitive they’ve got feelings you don’t want to hurt them.
So, I really hope the six tips were useful for you again if you’re interested in
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