What’s New with Dream English – Week of September 14, 2020

I love this time of year! The weather starts to cool, coffee gets tastier, and I really get down to work. I’m starting a new weekly blog post of all of the new songs and videos I’m releasing. I hope some of these will be helpful for your classes and young learners! Here we go:

  1. Learn Some Words Episode 1: Animals.

    This special new series from Dream English Kids teaches six words each episode with songs, repeat-after-me, and a quiz. Join Matt, Tunes, Bell and our friend the Pencil in this exciting learning adventure!
    YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/eHSTJuUpVQs

  2. ASL Phonics Video:

    Over the years I’ve received many request to make some sign language videos. I do use a little sign language in many videos, but this is the first time I am using the alphabet. More to come in this series.
    YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/pI1ZjdZd62o

  3. New Songs on Spotify and Apple Music: As more people use Spotify I will only put links to the Spotify releases here. Please search on Apple Music for the titles. Halloween Songs Album (Six Songs), Halloween Shake Song,  I See A Car Vehicles Song, Dinosaur Chomp to Ten

That’s the wrap up for this week. Please follow Dream English Kids on YouTube and Spotify to get notified of new releases right away. Or, stay tuned for the next What’s New! Thank you for your support! – Matt

Learn Some Words Episode 1: Animals New Original Learning English Show

New Show on YouTube: Learn Some Words! 😀
Perfect for the ESL/EFL Children’s English Classroom!

Learn Some Words Episode 1: Animals. This special new series from Dream English Kids teaches six words each episode with songs, repeat-after-me, and a quiz. Join Matt, Tunes, Bell and our friend the Pencil in this exciting learning adventure!

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/eHSTJuUpVQs

Count to 1000 by 1s Video

Counting is really important for young English learners (ESL, EFL). Numbers are useful in every day life (shopping, cooking) and numbers also contain many important phonetic sounds of the English language. More below video:

It takes a bit over 23 minutes to count to 1000 by 1s in this video. That is a long time to sit through a video! However, you can use parts of this video to practice. For example, try counting from 1-100 one day, and the next 101-200.

Put it on in the background before class, and let your students listen to the numbers. These are just a few ideas. I hope you find this video useful for your classes and students! Happy Teaching!

Live Concert With Matt At School or in Concert

Due to Covid-19 Live Shows are currently not possible.
If you would like to be notified when we are opening up applications again, please scroll to the bottom of the page and send us an email. We will get in touch when it is again possible to have shows. Thank you.

Matt has done school concerts in Japan, Thailand, USA, France, Italy, Spain, and Morocco for over 1000 students. Get the best experience with a Matt Live Show!

Price

In Person Concerts fee is airfare + hotel + concert fee depending on school size. For more information, and to see if Matt is available to come to your school please send an email with the subject “In Person Visit Inquiry” to
shop @ dreamenglish.com no spaces between like this: email-shop

Virtual Classroom Visit with Matt

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Matt has visited classrooms in Japan, Thailand, USA, France, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. Now he can visit your classroom virtually with Zoom!

Virtual Classroom Visits

Matt can Zoom in to your classroom for a 25 minute visit, sing-along and chat with your students. Choose your class favorite Dream English songs, or Matt can help you choose a program. Matt can ask and answer questions from students.

Price

$100.00 USD for classroom visit up to 30 students. Matt can only do a visit if it works with his time zone. For more information please send an email with the subject “Class visit Inquiry” and your country and time zone to

shop @ dreamenglish.com no spaces between like this: email-shop

Online Zoom Teacher Workshop With Matt

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Matt has done teacher workshops in Japan, Thailand, and Spain. Now Matt is doing live workshops online!

Topics for Workshop

Topics can include lesson planning, teaching English with songs, or Q & A about teaching with Matt (No personal questions please). Have another idea for a workshop? Email us and let us know! (email address below)

Prices

Minimum 10 participants at $10.00 USD each or $100.00 USD for session. For more information please send an email with the subject “Teacher Workshop Inquiry” to shop @ dreamenglish.com no spaces between like this:

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Feel free to email with any questions about an online workshop!

Online Teacher Workshop with Matt Registration Details

I’m trying to do some new things and decided to hold an online teacher workshop and Q & A Session with Zoom. The workshop will be on May 7th at 11:00 AM Paris, France Time Zone.

Participants will learn my method for teaching with songs, and we will sing some Dream English songs together. Space is limited to 10 teachers.

For more info, fee details, and to register go here: https://www.dreamenglish.com/onlinemeeting
Happy Teaching! Matt
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New Song: What’s Your Favorite Food? Song for Kids English Class

Food is a very important topic in Children’s English Classes (ESL, EFL).  The new Favorite Food Song teaches 10 food names. More below the video:

How to Teach

Pre-teach the vocabulary in the lyrics using flashcards, or pictures. Then, watch the video and sing the song with your students.

Lyrics

What’s your favorite food? (repeat)

I like hamburgers
I like hot dogs
I like pizza
I like eggs

What’s your favorite food? (repeat)

I like rice
I like salad
I like sandwiches
I like spaghetti
I like soup
I like cake

What’s your favorite food? (repeat)

After the song, you can practice the vocabulary by asking the students, “What is your favorite food?”

Flashcard Game

Put the food flashcards on the floor or table. The students ask the teacher, “What is your favorite food?” The teachers answers, “I like pizza” for example. The students who touches the pizza flashcard first wins the round. Ask each students their favorite food so that they all can have a turn answering.

I hope this is helpful! Be creative, and make a great class using your own ideas and I hope this song can be a part of what you do. Happy Singing!

New Sight Words Song – Learn 10 High Frequency Words

I use sight words, along with phonics, to teach my students how to read in English (ESL, EFL) .  Sight Words are commonly used words that young learners are encouraged to memorize by sight.  More below the video!

Sight Words Song Series

I started using sight words a few years ago when I wanted to give my students a boost in their reading skills. Phonics are great, but it can take a long time to get students to begin reading. Encouraging students to memorize words that occur often in text help them read faster, and gain confidence in reading.

I chose the words for my song series from the “Top 150 Sight Words” list, with some modifications based on my experience teaching English to young learners.  The basic idea is like the lyrics to the song, “Listen. Read. Remember.”

How to teach

Show the students the video, and then on the second or third try ask them to read the words with me. You can also write the words on the board and pre-teach them before watching the video. The list of the words for this video is: the, I, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it.

Game Idea

You can play a simple touch game with the words. Write each word on a separate sheet of paper. Put all of the words on a table and have a group of 2-4 students sit around the table. Call out one of the words, for example “the.” The student who touches the word first wins the round.

These are just some ideas to get you started with sight words. Stay tuned for the remaining videos of the series on the Dream English Kids Youtube Channel!