Fun Ways to Teach

English for Very

Young Learners

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Passing Activity

• Divide the students into groups

• Hold an object

• Say the target language, for example: It’s a banana

• Pass the object to the students

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Shooting Letters

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• Write some letters on the board

• Mention one of the letters

• Ask the students in turn to shoot the letter with something sticks on the board

Do What I Say

• Give an instruction to the students like “Jump” but at the same time the teacher does a different action like “Walk”

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Find the Difference

• Prepare two different pictures – A and B that has similar pictures

• Find and circle the differences

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Fishing• Draw and cut out paper fish

• Write something on them and put paper clips on each fish

• Scatter the fish on the floor or on the box

• Give a fishing line with a magnet for each team

• Compete to catch the fish

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Find Someone Who

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• Prepare a paper with questions “Do you …?”

• Ask the question to other students until the answer YES

• If a child say YES, write down the name of the child next to the question

Hopscotch

• Draw hopscotch with a chalk on the floor

• Write words or numbers in each square

• Throw a stone to the square

• Hop to the square and read the word

• Pick up the stone

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Paper Airplanes

• Make an airplane from paper

• Fly the paper airplane to the object in the classroom by saying what they hit

• For example, chair

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Listen-Color

• Prepare a worksheet with many pictures on it

• Ask the students to listen and follow teacher’s instruction

• For example, color the duck with yellow

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Miming

• Give a card to a child that contains a picture

• For example, dancing

• Ask the child to mime the action to his classmates

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Chopstick• Prepare chopsticks,

bowls, peanuts and flashcards

• Teacher shows the flash card and asks “what is this?”

• If the answer is correct, pick a peanut up by using chopsticks and drop it in a bowlHertiki

Role-Play

• Organize the children to be buyers and sellers

• Give some stuffs to be displayed, money, lists to the sellers and buyers

• “I want a … please” and “of course”

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Memory

• Divide the class into groups

• Lay out cards on the floor

• Ask the students to memorize all the pictures and find the same pictures

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Snowball• Hold a ball and throw it to a child by

saying “I want to eat pizza”

• The child repeats the sentence and adds one more sentence

• For example: “I want to eat pizza”, I want to eat rice”

• The sentences get longer and difficult to remember

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Running Dictation• Divide the children into

two groups

• Two students from each group come forward and face to the white board

• The second child dictate something to the first child like draw two triangles for the eyes

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Musical Chair

• Arrange eight chairs in a circle for nine students

• Play the music and have the children dance and sing around the circle

• When the music is stopped, the children try to sit on a chair and only one child will not get the seat

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Blindfold• Divide the students into two teams and get

a child to be a leader from each team to paste a picture on the board

• Give one child a blindfold and a picture

• The other members call out left, right, go straight to get their leader to the board and touch the target with the picture

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BINGO

• Each child is given a BINGO card which consists of numbers, letters or pictures

• Mention a number and ask the students to cross out on their cards

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Whispering

• Prepare some words

• Divide the students into two groups

• Whisper the words to the first child of both group A and group B

• The first child whispers the message to the next child until the last child gets the message

• The team which can repeat the message first gets a point

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Guess Who• Think one family members such as Father,

Mother, Sister, Brother

• Call a child to sit on the hot chair

• The rest of students in turn ask YES/NO questions to find out who the person is

• If the answer YES, the students can try to guess the answer

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