English For Young Learners

QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES CHAPTER 1

The Young Language Learners

1.    Think back to when you went to school. What do you remember about your first years? Do you remember the teachers, the teaching, smells, sounds, your physical surroundings, other pupils, feelings? How do your memories fit in with what has been said in this chapter about learning in general?

Answer:

I still remember when I was in the elementary school. I started my first day with very happy. It was so fabulous. I and my friends were enjoyed the class, especially when the teacher came in and played us a song, I mean a childhood song. We sing the song together. The teachers taught us patiently and tell us everything we need to know at that time.  I felt so happy at that time and my friends were laughed together when the teacher did something funny in front of the class.

2.    Go back to your own learning days again, this time when you started learning a foreign language. Was it good or bad experience? Why? Can you draw any conclusions from it about what you should/should not do in your language classroom?

Answer:

It was in the elementary school when I get my first foreign language class. It was English that I learnt. I felt so shy at that time because I didn’t know how to speak English. It was because the teacher who taught us was a friendly teacher. He taught us a simple way to learn English. He also used a simple language to made us all understood about what he explained in front of the class. The things that we should did in the language classroom at that time were listen what the teacher explained to us and tried to do the assignments he gave us every day. But in the same time, our teacher taught us very carefully and patiently. They gave us everything we needed when we were in the first foreign language class, in the English class.

QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES CHAPTER 2

Class Management And Atmosphere

1.    Think back to when you went to school and try to think about the teachers you liked best. Why did you like them? Try to make two lists under the headings Abilities and Attitudes. Do the same with the teachers you didn’t like. If you are working with others, compare your lists.

Answer:

List of teachers I liked.

Teachers’ name	Abilities	Attitudes
Mr. Budianto	Make us laugh	Understandable teacher.
Mr. Ahmad	Speak English fluently	Familiar teacher and always make us comfortable in the class.

            List of teachers I don’t like.

Teachers’ name	Abilities	Attitudes
Mr. Andi	Speak English (not enough fluent)	Sometimes angry to his pupils.
Mrs. Rahma	Speak English	Sometimes said his pupils as a stupid person.

2.    What abilities do you have that will help you in your teaching. Can you play a musical instrument, sing, tell stories, etc.? Is there anything you would like to be able to do that is not on your list? Can you do anything about it?

Answer:

If I was a teacher, I will teach my student with a very pleasure way. I can sing a song and I’m good in it. I will in invite my student to learn in a fun way and invite them to sing a song with me. As we know that song can stimulate student to learn English well. It is because, with a song, we can invite student to refresh their mind and learn happily.

3.    Make a list tasks which pupils can do in your classroom, like changing the calendar.

Answer:

List of activities:

-       Greetings

-       Make a morning prayer with my students

-       Sing a song with them

-       Tell them a funny and meaningful story

4.    Let’s say that you have a class of ten-year-old beginners. Which classroom phrases would you like them to be able to use at the end of the first two weeks? If you are using a textbook, look at the first lessons there and see what classroom language you think would be useful for these lessons.

Answer:

If I have a class of ten-year-old beginners, I would like my pupils to be able at the usual phrases. I will make them arrange the desk according to what I say. And I will make them feel comfort with what I’m saying. In the first two weeks, I predict that they still bored and don’t know how to create a pleasure situation and they will fill anxious what will happen next.

If I also use a textbook, I will search a new material which suitable with their mind and their thinking. I don’t want to make them fill confuse with the material that I give, but I will make it simple with designing a new material because they are still a young language learners. A happy study process, can make them fell comfort and relax to attend the class.

QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES CHAPTER 3

Listening

1.    Look back at the mime story on page 23. Underline the words which you would act out on this story.

Answer:

The words that I would act out on this story are:

-       Sitting

-       Row

-       See

-       Dragging

-       Sleep

-       Lie down

-       Close our eyes

-       Asleep

2.    Can you write another short mime story? If you are working with other teachers, you might like to tell them a mime story at their level.

“Sam go to the lake for fishing. His friends come with him, because they really like to fishing in the lake together. Sam say to walk and clap their hands because they will get a big fish. Sam say to clap their hands. Clap your hands. Clap your hands. Clap your hands. Sam say to jump down also because they will feel the sensation of fishing in a lake. Sam say jump. Jump. We all jump together. Finally they got to the lake and started fishing together. “

3.    Can you remember a favorite story from your childhood? Think about it now. Try to divide it up into sections as we started doing with Little Red Riding Hood on page 29. Find a keyword for each section so that you can remember it, then tell it to an audience.

Answer:

Setting:

In a village. His mother’s cottage.

Episodes:

-       Bawang Putih lives in a happy family with her parents.

-       Then, Bawang Merah came with her mother to his her house.

-       Bawang merah and her mother blend the poison to the meal and give it to
Bawang Putih’s mother.

-       Bawang Putih’s mother died because of the poison and she lived now in a broken family.

-       Bawang Merah and her mother always ask Bawang Putih to do everything in the house.

-       Bawang Putih felt sad and pray for a miracle.

-       Finally, Bawang Merah and her mother were explelled from the house.

4.    Look through all the activities in this chapter again. List them under the headings Quiet activities and Noisy activities.

Answer:

Quiet Activities	Noisy Activities
Instruction	Moving about
Put up your hands	Mime stories
drawing	Putting things in order
Identifying exercises	Rhymes
Listen for the mistakes	Songs
Listen for the mistakes	Exercises
Questionnaires	Telling stories
Listen and color	Independent listening
Filling in missing information
Listening to stories
Creating stories
Reading stories