fun ways to teach english for very young learners
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Fun Ways to Teach
English for Very
Young Learners
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Passing Activity
• Divide the students into groups
• Hold an object
• Say the target language, for example: It’s a banana
• Pass the object to the students
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Shooting Letters
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• Write some letters on the board
• Mention one of the letters
• Ask the students in turn to shoot the letter with something sticks on the board
Do What I Say
• Give an instruction to the students like “Jump” but at the same time the teacher does a different action like “Walk”
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Find the Difference
• Prepare two different pictures – A and B that has similar pictures
• Find and circle the differences
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Fishing• Draw and cut out paper fish
• Write something on them and put paper clips on each fish
• Scatter the fish on the floor or on the box
• Give a fishing line with a magnet for each team
• Compete to catch the fish
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Find Someone Who
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• Prepare a paper with questions “Do you …?”
• Ask the question to other students until the answer YES
• If a child say YES, write down the name of the child next to the question
Hopscotch
• Draw hopscotch with a chalk on the floor
• Write words or numbers in each square
• Throw a stone to the square
• Hop to the square and read the word
• Pick up the stone
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Paper Airplanes
• Make an airplane from paper
• Fly the paper airplane to the object in the classroom by saying what they hit
• For example, chair
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Listen-Color
• Prepare a worksheet with many pictures on it
• Ask the students to listen and follow teacher’s instruction
• For example, color the duck with yellow
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Miming
• Give a card to a child that contains a picture
• For example, dancing
• Ask the child to mime the action to his classmates
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Chopstick• Prepare chopsticks,
bowls, peanuts and flashcards
• Teacher shows the flash card and asks “what is this?”
• If the answer is correct, pick a peanut up by using chopsticks and drop it in a bowlHertiki
Role-Play
• Organize the children to be buyers and sellers
• Give some stuffs to be displayed, money, lists to the sellers and buyers
• “I want a … please” and “of course”
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Memory
• Divide the class into groups
• Lay out cards on the floor
• Ask the students to memorize all the pictures and find the same pictures
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Snowball• Hold a ball and throw it to a child by
saying “I want to eat pizza”
• The child repeats the sentence and adds one more sentence
• For example: “I want to eat pizza”, I want to eat rice”
• The sentences get longer and difficult to remember
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Running Dictation• Divide the children into
two groups
• Two students from each group come forward and face to the white board
• The second child dictate something to the first child like draw two triangles for the eyes
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Musical Chair
• Arrange eight chairs in a circle for nine students
• Play the music and have the children dance and sing around the circle
• When the music is stopped, the children try to sit on a chair and only one child will not get the seat
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Blindfold• Divide the students into two teams and get
a child to be a leader from each team to paste a picture on the board
• Give one child a blindfold and a picture
• The other members call out left, right, go straight to get their leader to the board and touch the target with the picture
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BINGO
• Each child is given a BINGO card which consists of numbers, letters or pictures
• Mention a number and ask the students to cross out on their cards
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Whispering
• Prepare some words
• Divide the students into two groups
• Whisper the words to the first child of both group A and group B
• The first child whispers the message to the next child until the last child gets the message
• The team which can repeat the message first gets a point
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Guess Who• Think one family members such as Father,
Mother, Sister, Brother
• Call a child to sit on the hot chair
• The rest of students in turn ask YES/NO questions to find out who the person is
• If the answer YES, the students can try to guess the answer
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