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4. How to teach young learners
Objective: to help participants explore the methods of teaching young learners
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: Handout 2, the board / flipchart
Interaction: plenary, pair work
Procedure:
 Say to participants that they are teachers now and they will analyze how they worked with the rhyme ‘Butterfly’. Ask them what kind of rhyme it is.
Possible answers: The rhyme is short, simple, words are repeated.
 Ask participants if it is important for young learners to have short activities. Why, why not?
Possible answer: It is important, as young learners cannot concentrate on something for a long time.
 Ask participants if they repeated the words of the rhyme and how they did it.
Answer Key: They repeated the words of the rhyme in different ways.
 Point out that the repetition was a meaningful drilling.
 Ask participants the following questions:
1) Did you like this activity? Why, why not?
2) Will your pupils like the activity? Why, why not?
3) What else did I ask you to do when you repeated the words?
Answers to questions: 1) and 2) may vary, 3): Participants were asked to do some actions.
 Say that it is very helpful for young learners to imitate actions to remember verbs better. Ask participants which verbs they can ask their pupils to show.
Possible answers: Swim, sleep, sing, see, hear.
 Explain that this method is called Total Physical Response, or TPR. It is a very useful method because most children are kinaesthetic learners.
 Ask participants why you did not explain any grammar rules but asked the participants to repeat some phrases after you.
Possible answers:
With the pupils of this age it’s easier to say a phrase in English than to explain rules how the phrase is made up. So, it’s easier to say the phrase ‘Butterflies fly’ without explaining the Present Simple Tense.
 Ask participants what else they did.
Answer Key: They coloured and counted their butterflies, asked and answered questions.
 Ask participants about any advantages of these activities.