Advice needed with very young learners
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 1:58 pm
I'm in China and have been tutoring TOEFL and IELTS to teenagers and young adults since the beginning of the year. My employer has just kindly "hired me out" to a local primary school. So in 4 days time I have to teach a class of 45 six year olds!! I will be giving 2 lessons per week (with two different classes - so 4 classes a week) - each class is 40 minutes. I taught early childhood briefly about 20+ years ago, but have zip experience with ESL pupils of elementary age. It would seem that these pupils are absolute beginners!
I've checked online resources and I know there are plenty of great ones out there. I can use powerpoint (apparently), and can also hand out resources - colouring in etc. I'm thinking of breaking the activities into 4 x 10 minute blocks with songs, alphabet, vocab themes and a game etc. My problem is the first lesson. Do I start with a welcome song, followed by the alphabet (with big pictures etc on a PPT), or numbers? Do I teach the whole alphabet, or just ABCD? Transitions could be a problem too!
Any advice or hints (beyond the obvious) would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you in advance
I've checked online resources and I know there are plenty of great ones out there. I can use powerpoint (apparently), and can also hand out resources - colouring in etc. I'm thinking of breaking the activities into 4 x 10 minute blocks with songs, alphabet, vocab themes and a game etc. My problem is the first lesson. Do I start with a welcome song, followed by the alphabet (with big pictures etc on a PPT), or numbers? Do I teach the whole alphabet, or just ABCD? Transitions could be a problem too!
Any advice or hints (beyond the obvious) would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you in advance