https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PraN5ZoSjiY Bye Bye Goodbye - Super Simple Songs on YouTube To signal the end of class, this song works a treat. The first half of the song has actions that can be followed. The second half is the song without words. I sing the song through with actions the first time around and then when the instrumental part kicks in the students … [Read more...] about Goodbye Song for First Graders
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Greeting Song for First Graders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlcKp3bWH8 Hello - Super Simple Songs on YouTube The really easy song is a great way to get first graders started in their class. Most of them understand it right away and have had at least limited exposure to these words during kindergarten. The actions are so easy there's almost no reason to explicitly teach anything at first. The … [Read more...] about Greeting Song for First Graders
The Seals on the Bus
The seals on the bus go errp, errp, errp All through the town. This book takes the classic The Wheels on the Bus and gives it a twist with loads of different animals on the bus. A perfect book for beginning learners that takes in their most common interests: silliness and animals. I always look for a video to accompany the book, but this one doesn't have one … [Read more...] about The Seals on the Bus
Promoting English in Tainan
In our continuing cooperation with the Office of English as the Second Official Language in Tainan we were invited to check out some of the work that the Economic Development Bureau has been doing. There were five stores in particular that had done a lot of effort to include English in their store marketing. So on 12/9 we headed off to Tainan City proper to see what had … [Read more...] about Promoting English in Tainan
Snapdragons
Snapdragons are a fairly easy activity for any class. They can be adapted to many different lessons and sentence patterns. I did this with grade 6 and it took a whole lesson. I showed them once, then they got to it. They needed a bit of prompting along the way. Dialog: (S1 = snapdragon holder; S2 = friend) S1: … [Read more...] about Snapdragons