Aged from 6 - 10 English Lesson?

[guthmann]

I will be teaching Korean students very soon, but I have never had ages from 6 to 10. I was wondering what type of lessons you would give the students? could someone point me to a site that has activities for this age group? Any help you give me is GREATLY appreciated, thank you.

[gfell]

How many students in your class? The class size will also depend on the type of lesson to give. Let me know the class size and I can then give you more accurate feedback.

You may also want to take a look at lessons for children

[guthmann]

There will be about 10-15 students, thanks for your help so far

[gfell]

Seems a fairly large class. Anything larger than 10 students per class, you really need to set down class rules, otherwise students can get the better of you and turn the class upside down.

Be fair and lay down the rules from the start.

I would recommend the following lesson plan (in order from start to end):

1. Check previous lesson's homework. Get students to pass their homework to the student next to them for marking. That way, each student is marking another student's homework.
2. Verbally test students on the previous lesson's content. Choose students at random and ask them questions. Use the sentences and grammar used in the previous lesson.
3. Sing a song. (eg: ABC song, Head's Shoulder's Knees and Toes, etc.). To make it fun, you can even assign students to sing only a certain part of the song. The challenge then is to sing from start to end without 1 mistake. The student who makes a mistake, then would need to sit out, and the song would start again.
4. Text work - Complete the next lesson in the student text.
5. Assign and explain homework.
6. Play a game. Hangman would be good for a class of your size. Hangman can be played as 1 large group. If using a board game or flashcards, then divide the class into 3 groups. Each group may be playing a seperate board game, and you can then rotate them in future lessons. This is providing you have ample floor space for students to spread out on.

I sure hope your school has set text books for students, otherwise it would be very difficult to teach them.

Good luck and I hope the above leads you in the right direction.

[Hypiereon]

I like what gfell already posted as a really good guide.

I usually begin every class with this skeleton to hang things on.

1. Review (tough on the first day, but try to find out what they should have learned last year and just go over it again - for a first lesson, this could end up being a whole day's worth of teaching, but don't - you should cover new material.)
Review is good for every day. Repetition is the key to learning, so if you preview today, teach tomorrow, and review the next day, they have a better chance of "gettin' it".

2. Cover new lesson material through repetition exercises - repeat after me for the whole class, one by one around the room (gives them a chance to speak and hear other students; gives you a chance to determine student levels pretty quickly).

3. Cover new material. Curriculums are very lacking in China, at best you get thrown the most popular selling English book on the shelves that year. Lot's of creativity required.

4. Assign homework and go over your expectations so that students understand how to do it.

5. Preview the next day's lesson. Something brief, but something they can take with them. A game that can introduce the next days lesson is great - games can also be used to review at the end of class, but I prefer to preview tomorrow's lesson today, and review today's lesson tomorrow. (That come out right? )

[Margy]

Nice! Thank you Hypiereon!