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[roym]

I've come across a really bright 6 year old kid in the Philippines. I'm not interested in being paid, only giving this kid a hope for the future. His English is extremely minimal. Where can I get / what do I need to give him 30 mins a day education? thanks...and Happy New Year to all..

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[artemisia]

I really don�t know a thing about your teaching background so you may be getting the obvious from me. He�s quite young and kids generally respond well to pictures, stories, songs and games as the above poster suggested. With pictures, there are a lot of sources but you could collect a series of flashcards which you can download online. There are many sites and other posters might be able to suggest the best ones. Otherwise do a general google search under young ESL learners.

A picture dictionary would also be good if you have access to one. After he�s learnt some basic vocabulary, you could play pelmanism with him with the relevant picture and word cards. He needs to learn basic vocabulary (nouns for food, family, rooms, colours, days, months, seasons, animals, sports, etc. and action verbs) and numbers, basic sentence constructions, introducing himself and saying his likes/ dislikes (food, interests). He�s only six and I guess not from a privileged background so he probably hasn�t done much. Anyway, once he�s got a reasonable basis you could take this into very simple children�s picture stories for reading and pronunciation. (Do you have access to a library with English books?). If it�s possible to copy stuff so he can do some homework reading later on then that would be good.

If you have ready access to a computer that you can use with him, he could try online puzzles, word find games etc. for kids or you could print things off. If you know any kid�s songs, you could do these as well. I have no idea what resources you�ll have access to but kids also like activities such as mask masking which you can do quite simply and quickly (cut up paper shapes, string, coloured pencils). This could be as part of vocab to accompany songs (eg; Old MacDonald) or have as an ongoing project you spend a certain amount of time on. A half an hour is probably not going to be enough time for that but IMO a small daily dose of English is quite good for that age group - to begin with anyway.