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Fun Thoughts and Creative Ideas for Teaching Children English
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!