The teaching of English as a foreign language is now, in many places, expanding into primary (elementary) school settings

The Topic Approach

The topic approach begins with a subject that is of relevance and/ or interest to the learners and then designs activities for learner that will involve them in investigating that topic and using language as an integral or central part of that investigation. Advocates of the topic approach suggest that learner will be more likely to be motivated to use the new language if their attention is focused on a topic or subject that they have an interest in or care about. Language objectives are thus integrated with content study (14).

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   Penny Ur’s activities
   

Penny Ur (11) offers a variety of types of oral activities, including communication games, but also including a wider variety of group activities. These she classifies into three main types: brainstorming activities, organizing activities, and compound activities.

There are several subtypes under each category. We offer some examples of each in the accompanying list.
Brainstorming activities
– Guessing games: guess the object/ profession/ country; (clues: first sound or letter; a piece of mime; strange picture; a puzzle clue).
– Finding connections: between incongruous prompts (verbal or pictorial); combining elements into story; finding things in common.
– Ideas from a central theme: listing objects with the same qualities; listing different uses of the same object; associations; what will you need; characteristics (e.g. of a good teacher, or a car).
– Implications and interpretations: doodles; pictures; sounds; faces; foreseeing results; explanations for strange situations.
Organizing activities
– Comparisons: odd man out; categorizing.
– Detecting differences: picture differences; alibi.
– Putting in order: picture sequence; sentence sequence.
– Priorities: rating; survival games; features and functions.
– Choosing candidates: grant-winners; heirs; prisoners; victims; teachers.
– Layout problems: animals in a zoo; dinner placings; marital pairings.
– Combining versions: combining two or more similar texts into one which will make sense.
Compound activities
– Composing letters
– Debates
– Publicity campaigns

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  Surveys
  
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  Planning projects.
  

The most useful and important for elementary students are Organizing activities and Brainstorming activities.

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   Practical part
   

There are some practical activities and parts of different lessons, which show how to use tips from theoretical part of the work.

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