How to have an English day in elementary schools?
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rum hera ria
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How to have an English day in elementary schools?
in our elementary schools, English is taught from the first grade for 2x35 minutes per week. There is a discourse to improve the students ( and teachers) ability in using English by having an English day every week. Can anyone suggest or share their experience what to do to make the English day happen whereas most of the elementary teachers themselves are not good in their English ?
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Sally Olsen
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We put English songs on the walls of the halls in poster form and changed these regularly. We would play the songs on the sound system before school, at recess, at noon and after school for awhile.
We had a regular kind of newspaper on one wall with stories from magazines that might be interesting to the children, a picture or two drawn by the children and labeled in English and a fun word wall with unusual sounding words then translated into the chlldren's language.
We had an English Day with games for each class for points and they won the English tea cup and got their class name on it.
In the staff room we had posters with every day comments in English and the language of the teacher. "Please walk. Don't litter. That is a nice sweater." kind of comment and the teachers tried to learn one a break.
We would watch English movies or TV programs at noon on rainy or snowy days with subtitles in their language, in our case it was in the hall but a room would have been better if it is available.
In some schools, we did have an English room where the children could drop in and use computers, tape recorders, play games and just look through magazines.
I always buy a ton of magazines at the airport because by then you have gone through the baggage check and they don't count on your weight.
We had a regular kind of newspaper on one wall with stories from magazines that might be interesting to the children, a picture or two drawn by the children and labeled in English and a fun word wall with unusual sounding words then translated into the chlldren's language.
We had an English Day with games for each class for points and they won the English tea cup and got their class name on it.
In the staff room we had posters with every day comments in English and the language of the teacher. "Please walk. Don't litter. That is a nice sweater." kind of comment and the teachers tried to learn one a break.
We would watch English movies or TV programs at noon on rainy or snowy days with subtitles in their language, in our case it was in the hall but a room would have been better if it is available.
In some schools, we did have an English room where the children could drop in and use computers, tape recorders, play games and just look through magazines.
I always buy a ton of magazines at the airport because by then you have gone through the baggage check and they don't count on your weight.