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| Title | Suggestions for Teaching Young Learners |
| Body | Here are some ideas recently submitted to the FLTEACH listserv for a new teacher of 7- to 8-year-olds. Although these were intended for use with young learners of French, they can be used with any language, and some might be appropriate for enlivening classrooms with learners of all ages. Look for more of these next week. ---- Get an old suitcase (or large box) and fill it with different pieces of clothing (it's spring cleaning time!). Teach the students the names of the clothing little by little. Start with three items, and add only two items each class session. Teach the students the words for carpet and floor. After two sessions of going over the words for the clothing in the suitcase, throw (yes, throw!) each on the carpet or the floor (all in French). Call up a student to pick up each piece either on the floor or on the carpet. My students love throwing clothing around! When you teach "carpet" and "floor", have a student jump back between the carpet and the floor: floor, floor, carpet, floor, carpet, floor, carpet, carpet..... Wow! My students love to see if they can keep me from tricking them! Be sure to teach PREPOSITIONS: sur, dans, devant, derrière. You need to have your students engaged, active, up and about. Have a handful of something: pencils, flags, pieces of colored paper. Call on a student to take an item. Tell the student to put that item somewhere: behind the suitcase, in front of the desk, in the backpack, on top of the box or whatever you have in your room. All hands are in the air to volunteer. All students are on task and eager to participate. Of course they want to move! After you have sung a song, choose one student to stand up in your place and lead the others. The rest of your students will die to do it! Let up on reading books to them. Get a cheap microphone. Interview a few of them (not all): Qui es-tu? Quel âge as-tu? (Who are you? How old are you?) My students actually talk into the microphone! Number game: Buy some index cards and a few markers. Pair up the kids. Call out a number and have them write it on the card; the first pair to show you the number is the "winner". Moyer, C. Re: teaching French to 7-8 year olds. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (20 Apr. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-06-18 13:35:00 |
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