Using practice activities to consolidate children's language learning
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Additional resources-selecting, adapting and supplementing
Additional Resources
Coursebook and supplementary materials
Practice Activities
Activities
These are excerices to enhance students' linguistic knowledge and performance that can be used through the adoption of:
1. Games
Guseesing Activities
Animal guessing
Animal Guessing
Teachers describe an animal using a set of adjectives for students to guess.
Ex: It is a furry animal that has a long tail and sharp claws (cat)
Object Guessing
Object Guessing
Students get to touch an object with their eyes closed and guess what it is.
Ex: the intended object is put inside a mystery box for students to guess
2. Stories
Stories
Students share stories improve their speaking, listening, and pronunciation skills.
Benefits
Title
- Tests students comprehenshion
- Builds their vocabulary
- Introduces students to action words
- Activates their imaginantion
Memory Activities
Memory Activities
Memory games are attention-grabbing activities used to both improve and test young learners' memory abilities.
Information-gap activities
This type of activity is motivating and effective as it provides oral practice and collaborative.
Information-Gap Activities
Problem-solving activities
Problem-Solving Activities
- This activity pushes students to put their thinking caps on and think outside the box.
- It sets them free to use the language that they already know to resolve problems.
Chants
They are rhythmic and repetitive type of activity where students can acquire many skills from