This document provides guidance on teaching English to children. It notes that children learn best through watching, listening, imitating, and doing hands-on activities. As learners, children are not able to understand grammatical rules and need non-verbal clues. The document recommends making English fun and encouraging for children by using gestures, pictures, games, songs, and stories. It also stresses the importance of variety in lessons to match children's short attention spans.

1. TEACHING ENGLISH TO CHILDREN

2. Group discussion:How do childrenlearn a foreignlanguage?

3. What are childrenlike as learners?They:

4. Learn in a variatyofways, for example, bywatching, bylistening, byimitating, bydoingthings

5. Are notabletounderstandgrammaticalrulesandexplanationsaboutlanguage

6. Trytomakesenseofsituationsbymaking use of non-verbal cluesCangenerallyimitatethesoundstheyhear quite accuratelyandcopythewayadultsspeak

7. Arenaturallycurious

8. Love to play and use theirimagination

9. Arecomfortablewithroutinesandenjoyrepetition

10. Have quite a short attentionspanandsoneedvarietyHow canyou as a teacher, help them?

11. MakeEnglishenjoyableandfun - rememberyou are influencingtheirattitudetolanguagelearning.

12. Don’tworryaboutmistakes. Be encouraging. Makesurechildrenfeelcomfortable, andnotafraidtotake part.

13. Use a lotofgestures, actions, picturestodemonstratewhatyoumean.

14. Talk a lottothem in English, especiallyaboutthingstheycansee.

15. Play games, singsongs, sayrhymesandchantstogether.Tellsimplestories in English, usingpicturesandactingwithdifferentvoices.