Tips for Teaching English to Children

Tips for teaching English to children
If you have never taught English to children before, the idea of spending time with pupils who do not understand a word you say seems daunting. The best way to teach is to be creative, and even to behave a little like a child yourself. Make learning English fun!

Teaching English is not limited to having your pupils read from the textbook and fill in worksheets. There is no limit to how you can teach. Look for new and exciting ideas that will keep your pupils involved throughout the lesson

1/ Use plenty of tangible teaching aids
Pictures are excellent for supporting learning. A child may not understand that the word “pencil” means a pencil, but they will recognise what a picture of a pencil is. By combining text with pictures.

children will be able to develop their understanding better. Adding pictures and some colour to the classroom makes it more engaging and a better learning environment.

2. Mix different teaching aids

A child loses interest if the same teaching aid is used over and over; but by using different learning formats, whether worksheets, games or PowerPoint, the child stays enthusiastic.

3. Break lessons up and group vocabulary

Pupils need a graded learning structure. Try to design lesson plans with small activities broken into parts, so that your pupils find them easier to remember. To make this easier, teach your pupils English in vocabulary categories: you can group vocabulary into categories such as animals, eating, directions, or things you find in the supermarket.

4. Repeat everything
Listen, read, write, look, stand up, sit down.

Focusing on repeating the same words in the instructions you give your pupils means that pupils with no experience of English will learn those words quickly and understand them better.

You can also extend the idea of repetition to classroom routine. Try starting every lesson with a vocabulary revision game (going back over words from the last lesson) and ending every lesson by setting homework and tidying the classroom.

Even if pupils do not understand every single word you say, over time they will become familiar with the routine and will understand what they have to do.

5. Use the simplest sentences at first
Use simple sentences at the start of learning when giving instructions, such as
“Take out your textbooks. Okay?”.
“Close your book”.
“Open your book”.

Gestures are also very important and help beginners to understand better.
6. Always check that pupils have understood
Do not assume that pupils have understood the lesson. They are often embarrassed to admit that they do not know in front of the rest of the class and prefer to stay silent, and pupils do not put their hands up when they have not understood.

Instead, when teaching English to children, you need the skill of reading your pupils' body language to gauge whether they have understood the lesson, and you should keep asking questions to make sure they have understood it fully.
7. Give them plenty of time to practise
In English-as-a-second-language lessons for children you need to give plenty of examples, check that they are understood, and give pupils enough time to practise what you have taught them.

(Have them listen and repeat after you several times) then have them practise on their own or with other pupils.

8. Do, don't just tell
Practise how to teach English grammar to children by giving clear examples of the rules, with simple drawings, pictures, short videos and gestures using your voice or your body.

9. Always use positive reinforcement
Here is another step: give the correct form yourself, so that you do not embarrass the pupil and the rest of the class hears the right way to say it.
10. Don't be boring
When laying the foundations of English for children, use plenty of games to encourage your pupils to practise the language you have taught. Build in your pupils' own interests too, so that they want to learn! For example, do not use the busy bee character if what they like is Tom!

Teaching English is not limited to having your pupils read from the textbook and fill in worksheets. There is no limit to how you can teach. Look for new and exciting ideas that will keep your pupils involved throughout the lesson.

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