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3.1 Creating and using materials in teaching English for young learners?

Materials for teaching young learners :

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  audio-visual equipments
  
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  wordless books
  
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  magazines
  
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  newspapers
  
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  fiction books
  
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  novel sets
  
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  dictionaries
  
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  lists
  

3.2. Activities for encouraging young learners

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  Some activities which useful and funny to play in the classroom:
  
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  1. Telephone. Split the class into two teams. Have students stand or sit in a line and whisper a sentence to the first student. Each student then whispers what they heard to the next student until they get to the end of the line. The last student then says the sentence aloud. The team who is closest to the original sentence wins.
  
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  2. Basketball. Using an empty waste paper bin as the basket and a screwed up piece of paper as the ball, the students have to try and throw the ball into the basket. Before they can take their shot, they must answer a question from the teacher correctly. If they get the ball in the basket, they get 2 points. If they hit the basket but don’t get the ball in, they get 1 point.
  
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  3. Bingo. This classic game can be played with numbers, words or pictures on the students’ bingo cards. The teacher calls out a number or word and the students mark off the corresponding number or word on their card. The first person to complete their card shouts out ‘BINGO!’ and wins the round.
  
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  4. Can you…? The teacher asks students if they can do certain actions. If they can, the student answers ‘Yes, I can’ and then performs the action. If they can’t, they say ‘No, I can’t’ and the teacher asks them if they can do another action. Be sure to have some actions that are easy for shy students to do, e.g. ‘Can you smile?’
  

3.2. Activities for encouraging young learners

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  5. Add one out. The teacher writes four words on the board, three of which are related to each other in some way, e.g. banana - apple - car - strawberry. The students have to say which word is the odd one out. This activity can be done with objects or pictures in place of words.
  
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  6. Stand up please. A version of Simon Says where the phrase ‘Simon says’ is replaced with ‘please’. The teacher, or a student, asks the class to do certain actions but they must only do them if the teacher says please. Anyone who does the action without please being said is out of the game.
  
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  7. Blindfold Obstacle Course. Create a course in the classroom using chairs and desks, etc. (make sure that students won’t hurt themselves if they bump into them). One student wears a blindfold and the rest of the class has to guide them through the course with directions, such as ‘turn left’, ‘go straight on’, ‘climb up’, ‘stop’, etc. Rearrange the course for each new blindfolded student.