TO

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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 Todays 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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• Tagores views on education
• Stress strain
• No all-round growth of children
• Teachers personality does not mould the child
  anymore
• Result restlessness and frustration
• Tagores 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 Einsteins 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 Whats your
  father? Whats 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 dont
• 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