English in Pre-primary

1. Print Motivation Being excited about and interested in books. For example,  books have sound of different animals, because animals is interesting topic for children. 2. Print Awareness Understanding that print on a page represents words that are spoken, knowing how to follow words on a page, and knowing how to hold a book. 3.  Phonological Awareness Understanding that words are made up of smaller sounds. Hearing and playing with smaller sounds in words. Phonological Awareness comes before phonics. 4.  Vocabulary Knowing the names of things, feelings, concepts, and ideas. Knowing the meaning of words and connecting words to objects, events, or concepts in the world. 5. Narrative Skills Being able to describe things and events. Being able to tell and understand stories. 6. Letter Knowledge Understanding that letters are different from each other. Recognizing letters and knowing that they have different names and sounds. ...

GREETING Good morning, everybody. I’ll be teaching you English this year. DATE We will write the date of today on the board. DAY/TIME We will learn the days of the week with a weeksong in this link: THE LESSON ATTENTION GETTERS - Teacher : “Hocus Pocus” (moving an invisible magic wand). - Students : They look at the teacher with her hands over the eyes like binoculars. BRAIN BREAK Sing with me: I like to eat, eat, ear apples and bananas I like to eat, eat, ear apples and bananas I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys I like to ote, ote, ote oh-ples and bo-no-nos...

What are the main topics to be taught? Clothes    Numbers  Colours    Animals Food  Body    Family  Seansons  Weather   Select an activity related to one of the topics from “Topics and resources”.  You will have to explain your selection. We select the activity about the animals that it's called Snap. This activity for children consist in press the correct animal photo and they hear its name. In our opinion, this activity is very useful for children when they are learning the animals as they associate the name of the animals with the photo and this help them to develop listening and pronunciation. Moreover, it is a fun and attractive way to learn the animals. On the slides  “Best practices for teaching English to young learners” you may find information about the different routines (slides 63 to 80). Please,  classify “Classroom language: a list of expressions” into these routines followin...