How to teach kids(4-6)

1. Pockets
Reza Abedi

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3. All
children
love
learning
English.

4. This is fun!
I want to sit with my friend!
This is boring!
I like this teacher!
I liked that song we sang yesterday.
I want to play!
I’m tired of sitting in this chair.
I don’t understand.
We play games with the other teacher.

5. 1
Children like Pockets.
YN
2
I teach everything in Pockets.
YN
3
Children like singing songs.
YN
4
My classes are too big.
YN
5
Young children must start to read English.
YN
6
Pockets is fun.
YN
7
Young children must start to write English.Y N
8
Children like doing things individually.
YN

6. Five-step method

7. Five-step method
 Application
 Assessment
 Presentation
 Warm up
 Practice

8. Five-step method
 Warm up
 Presentation
 Practice
 Application
 Assessment

10. Objectives
 1 to identify healthy habits
 2 use action words

11. Key vocabulary
 brushing teeth, combing hair, eating
healthy food, exercising, sleeping,
taking a shower, using a tissue,
washing hands

13. What objects could you bring
to class?
 How could you use them?

15. What could you do before using this
page of the book?

17. How can you present the
numbers 20-29?
 How can you practise them?

19. What instructions would you give
the children?

21. What sort of writing activities
can children of this age do?

24. How do you use Tell-a-Story?
Do children like it?

26. What value is represented
here?
 What other values can children of this
age adopt?

28. Projects are a waste of time!
 True
 False

30. What is the purpose of assessment in
Pockets?

31. Homework
 1 Is homework appropriate for
children of this age?
 2 If so, what sort of homework can a
teacher give?

32. Picture cards

33. Pockets
 The sun was shining.
 The boy was happy.
 He drank some lemonade.
 He ate some cake.
 He went to the park.
 He played on the slide.
 He played on the swings.

34. 1 Memory game with pictures on the wall.
2 Teacher fixes pictures on the wall around the room.
Teacher calls out the words. Children point to the word.
3 Give out a few pictures to each group. Describe one of
the pictures. Children have to guess which picture you
are describing.
4 Reveal the word or picture.
5 Telling stories.

35. Agree or disagree
1 A teacher should give instructions first in English, then in Farsi.
2 Children should only speak English to each other and to the
teacher.
3 It’s OK for the teacher to use Farsi if a child is upset or crying.
4 A teacher can use Farsi to maintain a close relationship with the
children.
5
class.
It’s OK for a teacher to speak Farsi to the children outside the
6 Even using gestures it’s not possible to communicate clearly in
English.
7
A teacher should use only English in class.

36. Writing

37.  Write about favourites
 Thank you card
 Party invitations
 Make a class book
 Familiar objects

38.  Fantastic activity

OK activity

Not great activity