Teaching number

How to teach young learners about numbers

Assalamualaikum.

Teaching numbers to the beginner is always chalenging . Especially, those who live in non english speaking country, like in Indonesia. The main thing a teacher should understand is that our students must have concept of number in their mother language. They must be able to count numbers in their own language first unless we will get stuck in teaching them in the future.

Well, just start our lesson joyfully. Enter their world first and take them to our world. Ask the students the number of chairs, tables, or anything in the classroom using their mother language. Ensure that all students follow us and keep attractive.

Teacher : Repeat after me (use this frase in the beginning of our teaching and stress our intonation in this phrase or we can translate into the students' language. using this frase also means that we speak in target language and in the future they will understand while we speak it again)

Teacher : one (write the symbol on the whiteboard)
Students : one
Teacher : Two
Students : Two, etc

Ensure that we have each students' pronounce the words correctly. I find that they mispronounce three, five six, eight, thirteen,fifteen. I suggest to teach them 1 to 12 first.
If they are geting bored, we can use songs or quiz. Remember that we must keep the learning interesting.

We can use the modified songs they have known. I usually sing 'one and one'.
Now, if the students are good in this step, ask them in group or individually.
Teacher : Bayu, What number is it?
Bayu : one
Teacher : Good, what number is it?
Bayu : Six

Do this to the rest of the students. To check their understanding, we can random the number. We can also ask them the number of the things in the classroom.

Thanks.
Wassalamualaikum.

Time Worksheer Creator

When I surfed the internet yesterday, I was looking for a worksheet about telling time in English. I need the worksheet for my students who will be holiday for five days. To fill the holiday, the teachers should give worksheets. I found an exciting site. If I usually just downloaded the worksheets available free. This site offered me something different. Here, I can create the time myself then print it whenever I wish.

In the sreen shot above, you just need fill the time you wish.



After filling out all the time, it will appear like the picture above.

Or If you want to show the digital clock, you just need to click the 'show digital' button.



Thanks for the creator. If you are interested, just click HERE.

ICE BREAKERS; activity to cool down the class situation

Well, sometimes when I am teaching, i get bored or, even, my students get bored. To avoid this many things to do. The most important is never teach in a mere way. You just stand in the center of the classroom, holding a marker and a ruler. 'Shut up', you suddenly scream out seeing your noisy students. Or, you just ask your students to write and write. Hmmmm... If you always do this during teaching. I 'm sure not only you but also your students will get bored. Ok, I have some activities to make the class situation interesting and exciting. You can find ten ice breaker activities to apply in your class. This site provides some games and activities helping you to cheer up the situation. The activities do not require certain equipments. In my opinion, the ideas are very helpful in my classroom. Thanks alot. If you're interested, Plese visit HERE

Let's play Hangman

When I teach my students for long time and they start to get bored, I offered them to play a game. One of the games I often play with is "Hangman". This is a word guessing game and very good for students, first, to avoid their boredom during studying and, second, to test their vocabulary mastery. This game could be done in a group but it will be more challenging to play individually. This word game does not need special media, what you need is only chalk or marker and a board.
This is the rule of the game:
First : Draw a picture of a pole with a rope.



Second: Write the alphabet from A-Z under the pole.

Third : Write some words on a piece of paper and fold it. The words can be food, colour and so on. Put the paper in a bottle and ask your students to take the paper. This means that the student himself choose the word he is going to guess. Take the paper from the studens. Don't let him open it.
Fourth: Make underscores as many as the alphabets of the words. For example the word 'rabbit' have six alphabets.

Fifth : Ask your student to guess the word (e.g:rabbit) by saying the alphabet, not guess whole word directly. Whenever he says one of the word you have (e.g rabbit) for instance 'a', you write the alphabet 'a' in the correct order of the word.

But, if he say the alphabet is not one of the alphabets in the word you have (a.g rabbit), for example he says 'c'. Cross the false alphabet and draw a head under the pole.

Fifth: The game ends when the student is hung because of failing in guessing word or he succeeds guessing the whole word.

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Present perfect continuous – form:

The present perfect of the verb 'to be' (have/has been) + the present participle of the main verb.

EXAMPLE:

Subject	has/have been	verb+ing
He	has been	jogging

Affirmative
He has been / She's been	swimming
Negative
He hasn't been	swimming
Interrogative
Has he been	swimming?
Interrogative negative
Hasn't he been	swimming?

EXAMPLE:

to work, present perfect continuous

Positive	Negative	Interrogative
I have been working	I haven't been working	Have I been working?
You have been working	You haven't been working	Have you been working?
He, she, it has been living working	He hasn't been working	Has she been working?
We have been living working	We haven't been working	Have we been working?
You have been working	You haven't been working	Have you been working?
They have been working	They haven't been working	Have they been working?

Use:

We use the present perfect continuous for an action over a period of time leading up to the present. We are interested in the action as well as the result, and this process may still be going on, or may have just finished


EXAMPLES:

1. Actions that started in the past and continue in the present.

a. We have been waiting for you all day.
b. She is tired. She has been working all day.
c. They have been studying since 5 o’clock.

2. Actions that have just finished, but we are interested in the results:

a. It's been raining and my hair is still wet.
b. I’ve been reading all afternoon. I’ve just finished the book.
c. Who's been sleeping in my bed?

Learn English through Songs

Vocabulary needs to be revised again and again. Well, what could be better than studying vocabulary by listening to your favourite songs?

Read the lyrics first and try to understand them. You don’t have to translate the lyrics word by word, just try to find out what the song is all about. (Note: ‘Rap’ might not be practical as those songs usually contain slang words that not even ‘ordinary’ English native speakers know.)

Pick some words or phrases from the song that you would like to learn. If necessary, look up their exact meaning in a dictionary. A dictionary might also be useful to find other interesting phrases with the word.

Now, to learn the vocabulary, all you have to do is listening to the song again and again (that shouldn’t be a problem if it’s one of your favourite songs).

Both, Either, Neither, Nor and So

Expression	Example
both … and …	I like both cats and dogs.
so	Jane likes cats. So do I.
not … either	Jane doesn't like cats. I don't like cats either.
either … or …	Jane either has a cat or a dog.
neither/nor	Jane doesn't like cats. Neither do I./Nor do I.
neither … nor …	I like neither cats nor dogs.

Exercise

Find out why some parents think that their teenage sons or daughters have a lot in common with cats. (Don't take it too seriously, though.) ;o)

1. BothEitherNeitherNorSo cats andbotheitherneithernororso teenagers turn their heads when you call them.
2. You would hardly ever see a cat walking outside of the house with its master. BothEitherNeitherNorSo would you see a teenager in public with his or her parents very often.
3. A cat doesn't share your taste in music. A teenager doesn't andbotheitherneithernororso
4. BothEitherNeitherNorSo cats andbotheitherneithernororso teenagers can lie on the sofa for hours on end without moving.
5. Cats expect you to prepare the food for them. AndBothEitherNeitherNorSo do teenagers.
6. If you tell a joke, botheitherneithernorso your cat andbotheitherneithernororso your teen will laugh about it.
7. If you make a sudden move in their direction, botheitherneithernorso cats andbotheitherneithernororso teenagers get frightened.
8. Cats do not improve your furniture. Teenagers don't andbotheitherneithernororso
9. Cats roam outside and often come home very late at night. AndBothEitherNeitherNorOrSo do teenagers.
10. Conclusion: no matter if you botheitherneithernorso have a cat andbotheitherneithernororso a teenager at home - it's all the same.

Mark wrong ans

Does / Is / Has?

Does / Is / Has?

Please fill in the blanks.
The list of words is at the bottom of the text.
Press the down arrow to see them.

A: My sister very clever.
B: What she do?
A: She a teacher in a primary school.
B: Where she live?
A: She a lovely house in the country.
B: she married?
A: Yes. Her husband's name Ray.
B: she have any children?
A: Yes. A girl called Mary. She eight years old. She a lot of friends.

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I hope i can share my opinion, experince and so on to you all especially about learning and teaching english as foreign language to young learners kin Indonesia.
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