1 WELCOME TO WORKSHOP ON TEACHING OF ENGLISH TO PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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WELCOME

TO

WORKSHOP

ON

TEACHING OF ENGLISH

TO

PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

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Spontaneity & Children

• Children – gifted with spontaneity

• Present education system – stunts growth of

mind

• Too much stress on ranks & marks

• Creativity of children gets suppressed

• Unhealthy competition – parents

responsible

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• “Man is born free but everywhere he is in

chains”

• Who said this?

• Society – curtails freedom

• Psychological blocks – fear – created

• For a healthy child, healthy atmosphere is

essential

Rousseau

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Creativity

• Innovativeness in child should be encouraged

• Ability to create a thing of beauty. Ex: a painting, a poem

• New angles, new perspectives – to be welcomed

• Every child – a genius

• “ A genius does not do different things; he does things differently ”

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Learning

• Learning – a dynamic process

• Can take place in a free and congenial atmosphere

• Rapport between teacher & children

• A teacher should become a child and play, sing and do things with them

• Advt. Children fly paper rockets in the classroom

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“ Heaven lies about us in infancy”– Wordsworth

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Can a teacher create a star?

• Stars – not the shining things in the sky

• Achievers – transform dreamers into achievers

• Teachers can do it, if they have patience and perseverance

• Identify the spark, nurture it and then you will have ----

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Tare Jameen Per

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Task : Today’s Education system

Activity: Group work.

• Discuss and make a list of the salient

features

• The group leader can present the views of his

group

• There can be a discussion

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Eliciting :

Who is this person?

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Tagore’s views on education

• Stress & strain

• No all-round growth of children

• Teacher’s personality does not mould the

child anymore

• Result – restlessness and frustration

• Tagore’s views – relevant even today

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Mother tongue – its role in teaching English

• a very effective tool in imparting

communication skills

• Use of mother tongue – easy way to learn

English, target language

• Mother tongue – to be judiciously used

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APJ Abdul Kalam – Dream and work hard to

realise your dream.

Four golden principles:

1. Goal setting

2. Positive thinking

3. Visualizing

4. Believing

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M.K Gandhi: Tolstoy Farm

• Taught Indian children from different states

• Taught shoe – making , carpentry after he

learnt them

• Sincerity and commitment

• Gandhi – against segregating his children

from bad boys in “Tolstoy Farm.”

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• Visually challenged, deaf and dumb

• Perseverance and determination of her teacher,

Anne Sullivan – paid rich dividends

• Struggle, pain and frustration

• Ultimate result – success, fame and recognition

• Anne Sullivan – came into limelight – honours,

awards etc

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Einstein at school

• Considered a rebel

• Independent out look

• Did not give much importance to mere

acquisition of facts

• Did not believe in the efficacy of traditional

education system

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Education: Einstein’s view

• Should give ample scope for imagination

• Free thinking is essential

• Mugging up and mere reproduction of

information is not education

• Ability to think, create new ideas and analyse

them is education

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Eliciting:

Can you identify this celebrity?

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• Path – breaking effort

• Novel method to teach children

• Play way approach adopted

• Enjoy freedom & curiosity – aroused

• Inhibitions are dropped

• Free exercise of imagination & creativity

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Family and Relationships

• Teach the child all the names of relationships in the

family Eg: uncle, aunt, cousin etc

• Teach them the distinction between the two relations

– maternal and paternal

• Tell them a few interesting things about family

traditions.

• Make them draw their family tree

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Great grand parents

paternal maternal

grand parents grand parents

parents parents

you you

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Know the Professions

• Ask the child questions like “ What’s your

father?” “ What’s your mother?”

• Encourage them to prepare a chart

containing details of their relatives and their

professions

• Also motivate them to know a little about

the nature of various professions

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Colours

• Significance of important colours like

blue, green, red etc

• Colour – days eg: Red Day, Yellow Day

• How they stand for different ideas

• They can identify colours using pulses,

flowers, vegetables, fruit etc

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Colouring the Picture

• Children enjoy colouring pictures

• Let them colour the pictures they like

• Check whether they are using the right

colour

• Ask casually simple questions and derive

answers in the target language.

• Ex: What are you colouring?

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Balloon Bonanza

• Take a bunch of balloons to the class

• Ask the children to identify the colours

• Ask them which colour they like most and

why

• Teach them how to answer such a

question ex: I like blue colour because ---

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Flower Show

• Take a variety of flowers to the class room

• Teach them the names of different flowers

in English ex: Chrysanthemum, lily,

marigold, lotus, rose, jasmine

• Ask them to identify the colour

• Motivate them to enjoy the fragrance

• You can give them a project – ex: an album

of various kinds of flowers

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Fruit Festival

• Take as many varieties of fruits as possible to the

class

• First teach them the names of different fruits, ex:

Custard apple, pineapple, grapes, plantains, etc

• Tell them a few things about the vitamins,

proteins etc. which the fruits contain

• Talk about their relevance to health – give a few

simple examples.

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Flying Friends

• Show children pictures of different birds with

which they are familiar

• Tell them how they live, their food habits etc

• How they build their nests, how they are

domesticated

• Migratory birds – why they migrate and

when

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Toy World

• Take a few toys to the class ex: train, car,

helicopter

• Ask children to identify them

• Then ask them how they are used as means of

transport

• Play with them for some time

• Relate them to real life experiences

• Give instructions only in English

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Class room objects:

• Show children different objects in the

classroom

• Ex: blackboard, a piece of chalk, bench,

desk, duster etc

• Ask them to talk about their uses

• Add to their information, if there is any

relevant idea

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House hold objects

• Use the same procedure to make them

identify household objects

• Ex: bed, table, chair, sofa, teapoy etc

• Encourage them to talk about each of these

objects

• Use eliciting technique to make them

converse in the target language.

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Role play

• Role play – fun and interesting

• Gives exposure to certain situations

• Enables children to shed inhibitions and

converse freely

• Teach the basic structures , how to frame

simple questions

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Activity : Role Play

Task : Pair work

• at a police station

• With a doctor

• At the railway enquiry

• In a restaurant

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Task : speaking skills

Activity: pair work

Situations

• At the park

• At the cinema

• At the ice – cream parlour

• At the market

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Task: Things in common

Activity : Pair work

• Children can sit in pairs

• They can ask each other what their favourites

are. Eg: favourite star, favourite colour, favourite

place etc

• They should jot down things which are common to

both

• Later one of them can share them with the class

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Activity : Feel the object

Task : Group work

Keep a few small objects like

eraser,

pen, sharpener, pencil, pin, cell, lid of a

bottle etc. in a cloth bag. Close it before

entering the class. Let the children feel the

objects one by one and guess what they

are. Encourage them to ask questions.

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Know your birthday

Activity : Speaking skills

Task : Group work

Children go about in the room

asking one another their month of birth,

year and date of birth. They should keep

asking till they find someone whose

birthday falls on the same day.

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Guided Tour

• Take children out for a few hours to a place

where nature looks beautiful

• Show them different objects of nature, ex:

dragonflies, butterflies, birds, sky, green

fields, flowering trees etc

• Help them in framing simple sentences

stating their preferences, likes and dislikes

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PICTURE READING

• An interesting activity.

• Provides scope for invention

• Teacher can guide the child at certain

stages

• Help the child by supplying appropriate

words

• Useful exercise – strengthens descriptive

skills

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COMPLETE THE STORY

• The teacher can start a story and continue

up to a point

• Ask children, one by one, to continue the

story

• After the story is completed, the teacher can

ask a child to change the ending of the story

• This helps in sharpening their creative

abilities

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CREATE A STORY

• Show children some pictures which are part

of a story

• Jumble the pictures

• Ask the children to arrange them in proper

order

• Then the children can create a story using

the pictures

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FIND THE DIFFERENCES

• Collect pairs of photos, pictures which look

similar but contain a few differences

• Ask children to look at them carefully and

note the differences mentally

• They should orally reveal the differences

between the two – as many as possible.

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DESCRIBE THE PROCESS

• How to wear the school uniform?

• The teacher can help the child in framing

sentences.

• Can supply missing links

• Can encourage other children to fill gaps

• This can be tried using other situations also

Ex: serving food, making noodles etc

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RHYMING WORDS

• Vocabulary can be developed this way.

• The teacher can give pairs of rhyming

words like loot, boot: class, glass, bind, kind

etc

• Encourage children to gather as many

rhyming words as possible

• Nursery rhymes help in this method

Ex: Jack and Jill went up the hill

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Dumb Show

• The teacher can stand silently before the class

• Without opening his mouth, he can make

gestures, movements with his head, hands etc

• The children can be encouraged to guess what

he is trying to express

• They can ask questions, express opinions

• The child who guesses correctly is the winner

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Profile

• Self – introduction

• The teacher can explain the kids first by

doing it himself / herself

• Family, hobbies, likes, dislikes, goal in life

• Encourage children to come forward and

speak about themselves with confidence.

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Mock Interview

• Imagine that you are interviewing a celebrity

• Prepare yourself well by gathering as much

information about him as possible.

• Choose a friend of yours to play that role

• Have a rehearsal

• This can be done under the guidance of the

teacher

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BE A CREATIVE GENIUS

• The teacher can select a beautiful advt.

• The caption part of it can be deleted

• Copies of it can be given to children in the

class

• Encourage children to give an interesting,

catchy caption

• Let them use only words or phrases, not full

sentences

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Questioning

• It is an attitude

• Is a healthy attitude and it shows curiosity

• It can be cultivated

• There is a way to cultivate it – encourage

children to question

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After teaching the basics like tense and verb

forms, the teacher can

• Announce some topics in the class – ex:

films, sports etc

• Ask students to frame questions in as many

tenses as they can using what, why, where,

when, who, how, whom, whose, which etc

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Yes/No questions

The teacher can

• First teach children how to use modal verbs like do, does,

did, can, shall, will, could, should, would, may, might,

must, used to etc

• Give a few sentences as examples

Ex: Q: Do you like sweets?

Ans: Yes, I do / No, I don’t

Q: Could you please lend me your pen?

Ans: Sure/By all means/certainly/why not?

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Teaching grammar

Nouns

• Show them pictures of people, objects, places etc

• Tell them about different types of nouns – proper

nouns, common nouns, material nouns, collective

nouns

• Teach them how they are used in sentences

Ex: Nellore is a big town

Rice is very expensive

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Adjectives

Match the following:

• Teacher can write a few adjectives on the

black board

• Show children some pictures

• Tell them to match

• Correct them, after the activity, not during

the activity

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Conjunctions

The teacher can

• First teach usage of conjunctions like and,

but, so, or etc

• Encourage children to frame a few

sentences on their own.

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Interjections

The teacher can first

• Teach interjections – oh, ah, hi, hello, alas,

hurrah etc

• Tell the children how they are used

• They express sudden / strong feelings

• Situations in which they are used

• Used for dramatic effect

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THANK YOU