English for Primary Teachers

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In this post, synopsis from the book " English for Primary Teachers" by Mary Slattery and Jane Willis. The editorial is OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Unit 1: TEACHING YOUNG LEARNERS

• The how children acquire first language, how they can acquire English like the second language.
• Exercise about Easter 
• Using English for start lessons, to organizing and to ending.
• Teach young learners and very young learners, the differences that appear.
• Topic talk: Introducing yourself, how to make a short personal presentation.

Unit 2: LISTEN AND DO

• Learn English listening instructions. Give instructions in English, like sit down or stand up  listening and identifying activities.
• Sounds /s/ /k/ and /f/.
• Be active and enjoy doing things in English.
• TPR ( Total Physical Response) : Simon says, miming.   
• Recalling routine.
• TOPIC TALKS: Sports, hobbies and clothes. 

 

Unit 3: LISTEN AND MAKE

• How children learn listening English, using “Listen and make activities”. 
• Listen and colour activities.
• Listen and draw.
• LANGUAGE FOCUS: Useful phrases, asking who wants a turn.
• Make an Eater card.
• TOPIC TALK: The circus, festival and celebrations.

UNIT 4: SPEAKING WITH SUPPORT

• Using classroom phrases.
• Introducing new vocabulary using pictures, gestures...
• Singing songs to practise pronunciation, stress and intonation.
• TOPIC TALK: Spiders, beetles, small creatures and animals.

UNIT 5:

• How you can help children to speak more fluently in English.
• Speaking games: Pass the ball.
• LANGUAGE FOCUS: Asking children to guess or remember.
• TOPIC TALK: Families and rooms.

UNIT 9:

• Use activities from the units 2-7 and adapted for use with stories.
• Things to do after retelling a story; adapting a story, a “make and do” activity based on the story, making up a story, story structure, using stories for project work, reading with feeling.
• Story: ALVA AND THE ROBIN.
• Getting children to add to a story.
• Sound / s /.
• LANGUAGE FOCUS: Reading with feeling, from speaking to story writing.

UNIT 10:

• Effective use of English in the classroo.
• Helping children learn and improve. How you can use English to: begin the class, ending, during, organize the children and tell them what to do, tell them how to do things, tell stories, new topics, talk to them about their personal lives.
• Using the mother tongue, responding to mother tongue talk.
• Game: “What´s the time?
• Planning your lessons; before the course, general lesson preparation, specific language planning for a lesson.