Early childhood is the most suitable time for the comprehensive development of the child's skills. Learning English in early childhood is the key to a child's success in the future. For young children, a foreign language is very easy to give. An example of this is bilingual families, where parents talk with the baby from birth in two or even three languages, and children then easily communicate with each of them.
With junior schoolchildren, English is taught in a playful form, with drawings, counters, songs and educational games in English. Although the classes remind us of a simple game, they have the skills to read, write, express their thoughts in English. The duration of each lesson and their total number per week are as follows: for class 1 - 40 minutes twice a week, for grades 2-4 - 60 minutes twice a week.
Features of language perception of younger schoolchildren
Mastering the English language presents certain difficulties for students of lower grades, caused by spelling and graphic features of the English language. Some children do not remember the basic rules of reading letters and letter combinations, misread the words, applying other rules for reading them. Often there are difficulties caused by the psychological characteristics of children of this age, their memory, thinking and attention. At perception of a teaching material younger schoolboys pay attention to brightness of giving of a material, on its visibility and emotional coloring.
Game training tasks
According to the new method, children learn the language with the help of the "Look and say" reception. Recognition and memorization of new words and their writing occurs in gaming tasks. They can be used for group, front and pair work. Below are some of them.
Flashing a card
To develop the speed of reading, quick response of students to the printed word the teacher can use cards with written words. First the teacher holds the card with the picture to himself, and then quickly shows the class and turns back to himself. Disciples guess the word and call it.
Memory pairs (remember the pairs)
Students play in groups or break up into pairs. A set of cards with words on one theme is used. The cards are placed upside down. The task sounds like this: read the word and find the picture. The winner will be the most couples. If the children are still reading badly, you must first perform on the board a training exercise "connect the word and picture."
Three in a row! (three in a row)
Children choose 9 cards and arrange them on a previously prepared playing field consisting of nine squares. The teacher draws the card out of the pile and calls it aloud. If the student has such a card, he turns it over. Anyone who folds a row of 3 inverted cards, stands up and says: "Three in a row" (three in a row). The game continues until the students have turned over all the cards. In the end, children call on their playing field all the words.
Whispers (spoiled phone)
Pupils are divided into two equal teams. The teacher puts the pictures on the piles on the table for both teams, and the cards with the words lie on the other table. Children line up, then the student standing in front takes the top picture, whispers her name to the next and so on until the very last student. At the end, the last student takes a word from the table for the picture and fixes it on the board. Then he chooses the next picture, whispers the word to the student ahead of him from his team and gets ahead. The team that correctly assembles pairs wins: the picture is the word.
Pass the ball (pass the ball)
Children are in a circle near their desks. A merry music is playing, the children are passing the ball in a circle. As soon as the music stops, the pupil, left with the ball in his hands, takes a card with a word from the stack and calls it. You can not show it to other children. The remaining students show the corresponding card with the picture.
The above exercises and games contribute to the rapid memorization and consolidation of the learned rules of the English language. Games allow teachers to use a variety of forms of teamwork (group, frontal, steam), which is very important when conducting a lesson in primary school.