Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom Practical ideas and advice for teaching English to children to engage and inspire them throughout their primary schooling

by Roland, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781913414535
• ISBN10: 1913414531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-05-19
• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd

Summary

Structuring fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom Practical ideas and advice for teaching English to children to engage and inspire them throughout their primary schooling Teaching young learners can be a huge amount of fun. As teachers we can introduce all sorts of games, projects and variations on traditional exercises. All this needs careful structuring if the resulting activity is to be manageable and, more importantly, if it is going to help students learn and practise words and sentences in English. In Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom you’ ll learn about the principles behind that structure with a roller coaster ride of colourful ideas, examples and anecdotes as their vehicle. There are over three hundred diagrams and photographs to help explain exactly how the described activities work and give you the flavor of language classes at primary level.

Author Biography

Chris is a teacher, trainer and ‘ ideas man’ , well-known for his lively but practical sessions on the international conference circuit. He has taught in both the private academy sector and mainstream education system in Spain as well as holding posts with the British Council in Damascus and Barcelona. He works with teachers across a wide range of contexts. These include in-house training for ELI, the language school where he is based in Seville; intensive courses on methodology for Lexical Lab, London and tutoring on Trinity Diploma courses for Oxford TEFL, Barcelona.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1: Working with groups of young learners – the basics Chapter 2: Classroom management – some more little tricks Chapter 3: What is creative young learner teaching? Chapter 4: Language content 1 – Teaching words and sentences Chapter 5: Language content 2 – Scripting events Part 2 Chapter 6: Exploring Fun 1 – Novelty objects Chapter 7: Exploring fun 2 – Using space, our senses and time Chapter 8: Exploring fun 3 – Playing with text and truth Chapter 9: Exploring fun 4 – Movement and moving tasks Chapter 10: Task design for games, stories and crafts Chapter 11: Personalisation and agency Chapter 12: The massive potential of clips and images Chapter 13: Themed lessons – Potatoes, turmeric and stickers Chapter 14: Providing support in the classroom Chapter 15: Making better use of the coursebook Chapter 16: Observed lessons and professional development Bibliography