That’s very important. Always bear it in mind!

TEACHING GUIDELINES

MY LITTLE ISLAND

Course for pre-school children

Author: Anna Burda

Editor: Natalia Baskanova

Unium

Dear teacher!

You are going to become the first English teacher for your young students. Isn’t it exciting? You know how well people remember any first events happening in their lives. Remember your first day at school, first journey abroad, or first love. You will to become the brightest memory for your little students.

It’s a great responsibility to become their first guide into the world of English. Their future motivation for learning the language depends on you.

The most sincere, honest and energetic audience is waiting for you! For just a half an hour, the children will charge you with only positive energy. You’ll have wonderful opportunity to come back to the brightest time of one's life – to childhood.

Be open to your little students and their pure emotions. They are your best guides throughout the whole course. Listen to them and be confident, positive. It always works!

Good luck!

Content

Introduction. 3

Peculiarities of work with pre-school children. 4

Course structure. 5

Course components. 5

Course objectives. 6

Lesson structure. 14

How to…... 15

How to use stories. 15

How to adapt the language. 16

How to check students’ comprehension. 19

How to talk to parents. 19

Games. 19

Games with flashcards. 21

Games with a ball 24

Games-energizers. 26

Useful links. 29

Lesson plans. 31

Introduction

My Little Island is a three-level pre-primary course that starts children on their journey of learning English! Children will be inspired to learn with engaging characters and fun activities.

The key features of the course are:

• Child-centered themes develop the cognitive, emotional, and social skills of the whole learner.
• Links to daily life through useful vocabulary, language, values, and cross-curricular connections immerse students in English.
• Guided communication, fun characters, and engaging stories motivate children to listen, speak, and start reading and writing English more than ever before.

Total Physical Response (TPR): Children learn to attach meaning to the new language through TPR activities. Associating gestures with new words builds confidence and lets children move – which they like and need to do!

Rich Vocabulary Development: Each unit’s target vocabulary is presented in a scene, along with a thematic song accompanied by meaningful gestures and actions. The vocabulary lesson presents target vocabulary with real-life photographs that help reinforce the language.
Motivating Stories: Children look at and listen to a picture story, which presents one new language structure. This prepares them for reading stories with simple text later in the program.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): My Little Island introduces children to new skills, such as simple math that is practiced through numbers and counting, and provides even more opportunities to practice new vocabulary, listening and speaking.

That’s very important. Always bear it in mind!

1. Realities of the child's world must be at the core of the program and the basis for materials chosen.
2. A learner who is engaged will learn better.
3. Each child is unique in personality, interests, and learning styles and will benefit from materials that reflect this.
4. Successful learning only occurs when skills presented build on each other and are reviewed meaningfully.

Visit My Little Island Companion website and find a variety of materials that have been designed especially for the course http://www.pearsonlongman.com/mylittleisland/

We also have the Unium English teachers group in a popular social network vkontakte - http://vk.com/uniumenglishteachers. There you can also find current information, useful materials, make posts on our subject.

Дата добавления: 2015-10-26