Fun Thoughts and Creative Ideas for Teaching Children English
Happy 2021! Let’s start our classes out this year with the Dream English Happy New Year Chant. A great warm-up song to use after a long holiday break. Get a Free Song Download. See below for the video for link.
Happy New Year Free MP3 Chant Download– Click here.
Check out our Free Downloads page for more songs downloads to get your year off to a great start. Happy teaching in 2021!
I am happy to offer Free MP3 download of beginner English vocabulary chants for adult learners (ESL, EFL). Chant download below video:
Food Vocabulary Chant and Learning Video
Click here to download the Food Vocabulary Chant
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Vocabulary: bread, cheese, chicken, eggs, fish, fries, cheeseburger, hot dog, pizza, salad, sandwich, soup, spaghetti, steak
Jobs Vocabulary Chant and Learning Video
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Vocabulary: bus driver, carpenter, cashier, chef, construction worker, dentist, doctor, pilot, plumber, police officer, student, teacher, waiter, waitress
Check out more Chants below and Visit our Teach English Plus YouTube Channel for more vocabulary chants!
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Learn 14 Food names in this beginner English vocabulary builder video:
Vocabulary:
bread, cheese, chicken, eggs, fish, fries, cheeseburger, hot dog, pizza, salad, sandwich, soup, spaghetti, steak
Phrase:
I like bread. Practice saying “I like ….” and a food.
Check out my Beginner English Video Playlist on YouTube. Colors, Numbers, Phrases and more. Click here!
The Traffic Light Song is a new fun action song for your classes (ESL, EFL). It practices the colors green, yellow, red and fun actions. More below video!
How to Teach
Start by teaching the actions that go with the colors: green is go, yellow is slow, red is stop. You can practice all of the actions before your play the song.
Game Idea
Have the students line up on one side of the room. Call out the different colors, for example “green!” and the students have to go. If they make a mistake they are out. For example, if you say “yellow” and they stop, they are out. If you have many students, only have a few go at a time for safety and judging reasons.
Check out the new video on Youtube, song also streaming on Spotify, iTunes and more! Search for “Traffic Light Song Dream English Kids” Happy Singing!
I’m excited to share the new Today’s Number Song video: Number 1. This is a new series. More below the video!
Today’s Number Song: Learning to Count Numbers and Objects
This fun new series introduces the concept of numbers and counting to young learners of English (ESL, EFL). A children’s English class is not complete without some counting. This video teaches the number 1 and counting one apple, one t-shirt, one dog, and one car.
Activity idea: After watching the video, ask your students to find one object in the room and bring it to the front of class. Each student can take turns saying the number 1 and the name of their object. For example, “1 pencil.”
I hope you find this video helpful for your kids English classes.
Happy singing and learning!
Practice counting numbers 1-10 in this video. This is a new series to help beginning learners, and for pronunciation improvement.
Fruit counting songs are a fun way to practice counting and fruit vocabulary in your young learners English class (ESL, EFL). Teaching tips and lyrics below the video:
Teaching Tips:
This song gets faster and faster, so it is a bit of a challenge. If your young learners are having trouble holding up their fingers, you can replace that with a clap. Practice the song once slowly with no video before trying the video.
Lyrics
1 apple, cha-cha-cha
2 bananas, cha-cha-cha
3 grapes, cha-cha-cha
4 strawberries, cha-cha-cha
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, oranges, cha-cha-cha
(repeat and get faster!)
Have fun and happy singing!
New Fruit Song on YouTube! Learn how to say apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape. Also learn how to ask for fruit by saying, “I want an apple.” Fun for your young English learners. Lyrics Below Video:
Lyrics: Fruit Song -Be A Winner
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
Fruit is yummy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
If you eat fruit, you will be a winner
I want an apple, apple
I want a banana, banana
I want a strawberry, strawberry, yummy!
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
Fruit is yummy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
If you eat fruit, you will be a winner
I want an orange, orange
I want a peach, peach
I want a grape, grape, yummy!
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
apple, banana, strawberry, orange, peach and grape
Fruit is yummy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
If you eat fruit, you will be a winner
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/QQZ03_v3K6Y
Learn how to say red circle, green triangle, blue square, and pink heart. Lyrics and Free Song Download below the video!
Download the Shapes Color Song for MP3 Free: Click here
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Lyrics:
This is a red circle.
I’m a red circle
a red circle a red circle
This is a green triangle
I’m a green triangle
a green triangle, a green triangle
This is a blue square
I’m a blue square
a blue square, a blue square
This is a pink heart.
I’m a pink heart
a pink heart, a pink heart
red circle, green triangle, blue square, pink heart (x2)
Matt, yes, I want to be yellow, ok. abracadabra turn yellow! (the square)
This is a red circle.
I’m a red circle
a red circle a red circle
This is a green triangle
I’m a green triangle
a green triangle, a green triangle
This is a yellow square
I’m a yellow square
a yellow square, a yellow square
This is a pink heart.
I’m a pink heart
a pink heart, a pink heart
red circle, green triangle, yellow square, pink heart (x2)
We love singing this is really fun!
Great job!
Happy Singing! Visit www.dreamenglish.com/freedownload for more free songs!
Practice counting yummy apples from 1-6 in this fun numbers song. Lyrics below:
Lyrics: 1 Apple Na Na NA
one apple, two apples, three apples
na, na, na, na, na na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
four apples, five apples, six apples
na, na, na…
yummy, yummy, yummy
yummy, yummy, yummy
yummy, yummy, yummy, apples
six apples, five apples, four apples
na, na, na….
three apples, two apples, one apple
na, na, na….
I’m hungry. Ohh!
yummy, yummy, yummy
yummy, yummy, yummy
yummy, yummy, yummy,
apples na, na, na…
Song available soon on Spotify and Apple Music!
Original song by Matt. Copyright Dream English