Teaching Young Children

Teaching simple vocabulary – Kindergarten level

A colorful picture will always help you to get your pupils’ attention in foreign language teaching. You can simply name the objects from the pictures and try to get your pupils repeat them. Yet it seems more appealing and persuasive to imitate their sounds too; or explain how they taste, and smell and look like.

Try to take one group – for example animals – and make the most of it by cutting out the images and placing them on the floor (about A4 format). There are numerous variations on how to teach them. Below some inspirations.

Exercise

Teacher :

-stands on the picture and makes the sounds of the animals

-asks the pupils to repeat the activity

Pupils:

-follow teacher’s instruction

Teacher:

-stands on the picture and says the name of the animals

-asks the pupils to repeat the activity

Teacher :

-hides the images and gives each pupil the role of one of the animals

-imitates the sound of the animal, or shows a random picture,

Pupil: 

-the pupil whose animal is mentioned stands up and says the name of it.

Follow up activities:

You can make a MEMO game out of all kinds of images; DOMINO game with colors and shapes;

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Autor: AL