LESSON 1

- - Concepts about language teaching (second language, foreign language, etc).

- - First language – second language (babies and young children). Caretaker talk.
- - Starting your lessons in English (class teacher vs. specialist teacher)
- - Very Young Learners (VYLs) and Young Learners (YLs)
- -. Multiple Intelligence Theory (Campus Virtual)

2. LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Listening
- Giving instructions in English
- Listening and identifying
o Gramatical awareness
- Listening and doing: TPR
- Listening and performing
- Listening and responding games
- Listening and making
o Listening and colouring
o Listening and drawing
o Listening and making things
Speaking
- Speaking with support
o Saying rhymes and singing songs to practice pronunciation, stress and
intonation
o Practicing new vocabulary (guessing, either/or questions or classifying
games)
o Playing vocabulary games (guessing pictures, memory games, finding
pairs, shopping games, happy families)
o Practicing pronunciation of new sounds
- Speaking more freely
o Children as language learners
 Role of teacher
o Starting to speak freely –eliciting personal talk
 Supporting this early efforts
o Speaking games
o Children speaking in groups

LESSON 3. READING AND WRITING

Reading
- Introduction: traditional reading sequence
- Beginning reading: two main approaches:
- 1) Look and say;
- 2) Phonics (letters used to make sounds)
 a) Young learners
b) Activities to help children connect sounds with letters
c) Activities to help children connect sound recognition with clusters of
written letters
- Speaking to reading – helping sound and word recognition
- Helping children recognize phrases
- Reading independently – finding information

Writing

- - Introduction (shape)
a) Handwriting
b) Using computers
c) Writing
- Practising the alphabet: spelling
- From speaking to writing and from reading to writing (meaning)
- Writing with other children
- Children writing freely: activities
o Controlled practice
o Free practice