Here's a reply to Erna asking how to teach the weather and seasons to her group of nine year olds - she does not have my book of games:
OK the free games you are receiving can be used for ANY vocab, including weather and seasons.
I would use JUMP THE LINE to teach the words first - where you put up a line on the board and put some words to the left and some to the right - actually it's much better to put up pictures or draw some rain, a cloud, some sun etc. Then you call out SUN and the children jump to the left or right, depending on whether the sun is on the left or the right of the line. When you see the children make a mistake come back to that word over and over Sun, cloud, Sun, cloud, sun, SUN!! - You say it fast - it's a speedy game - that's what makes it fun - you want to try and catch them jumping the wrong way. If you do it slowly it's dull as ditch water! Gradually add in new pictures and words.
Then play RELAY RACE
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/games/relayrace.htm
Then you could play the Blanket Game where a child who is hiding stands on one of the weather pictures. (That's the first free game that you received)
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/games/blanketgame.htm
You can do some miming games where one group mimes a season and the others have to guess which season it is.
Play a match up game where kids with a type of weather have to find each other in class by saying their type of weather or a sentence like: I love sunny weather. All the children with that sentence have to find each other - but they cannot show their sentence to the others - it has to be done by speaking only.
And so on! Lots of ideas in my book if you can afford it of course.
All the best
Shelley
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com
Thanks - v. helpful and it worked really well with my kids!
ReplyDeleteGood evening. How about 4-6 years old kids in small groups? How can I teach them the weather? Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.
Here are a few ideas:
1. Introducing the new words:
Think up one action for each type of weather with the children then play some music and let the children dance around. Stop the music and call out "It's raining!" The children have to freeze in the position for when it's raining, which could be pretending to hold an umbrella for example.
Play some more listening games until the children have heard the words enough times.
Now move on to a speaking game such as:
- You mime one of the words and the children call out; "It's raining".
- place the weather flashcards in a box or bag. One child reaches in and looks at the picture drawn out secretly, then mimes that weather and the other children name it.
There are many ideas for small groups of young children in my preschool resource.
There is also a short skit on the weather in my book of skits and role-plays:
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/eslplays.htm
All the best
Shelley
hello!my name is Maria and I'm a studying to be an English teacher.I have to prepare a class for six year-old kids about any topic and I was thinking to teach them about THE FOOD, VEGETABLES, WEATHER, COLOR, ANIMALS OR OTHERS but I don't know how to do it!It's the first time I teach children,PLEASE HELP me!! I need ideas of how to develop a classes!! I need help quickly! here is my e-mail: libra466jjt@hotmail.com please answer as soon as possible thanks!!
ReplyDeleteHi Maria
ReplyDeleteSign up for my free games on the site and you will get games that you can use to teach any topic - the games can be adapted to any vocabulary, so you can use them with all the topics that you want to teach.
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/4-12.htm
And for food specifically check out the Hetty and the Lion story here:
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/3-5/2.htm
Kind regards
Shelley