How to teach your child English

English is a base that any self-respecting person should possess. More than half of the globe speak English; it is considered universal and to some extent international. To instill in the child a love for the language and the process of its learning, it is very important to study English at home. Often parents shift the responsibility for learning the language to teachers in kindergarten and at school, to tutors. However, you need to understand that in school a teacher has 20-30 children and only 45 minutes. He can not pay enough attention to everyone, hence the quality of education. The tutor often deals with the child individually, but only 1-2 times a week. For high-quality language learning this is not enough. You can visit an experienced teacher, but the process should continue at home.Parents should not let the child’s learning take their course - you have to check, control and guide.

A very important condition in which a mother can teach a baby a foreign language is her own knowledge. If she studied German in school as a child, it would be more difficult to start English from scratch. You can even harm a child by grafting a wrong pronunciation, which will be difficult to get rid of. But if mom has a certain school base, this is quite enough for early language learning. You can invite home an English teacher for a couple of classes that will help you remember your past knowledge and talk about the methods of teaching English for young children.

When can I start learning?

Before you start learning, you need to understand whether your child is ready for the creative process. If the child freely speaks sentences in his native language - the learning process can begin. In addition, you need to consider the availability of free time for regular classes. After all, a couple of hours a week will have no effect. To accumulate at least some vocabulary, you need to practice regularly and daily for at least half an hour for kids and an hour for older kids.

Starting to teach the child yourself, be ready to prepare teaching materials, films, cartoons, various cards and pictures. The creative approach should be shown by the mother, so that the training is easy, comfortable and in a playful way.

How to teach a foreign language to a small child

Children of the first five years of life are not ready to study grammar, build complex sentences, understand connecting phrases and analyze them. Learning the language of young children should be built in the same way as you taught the child's native language.Everything should be very clear and consistent. Here are some ways to help you accumulate a small supply of English words in a child’s head for 3-4 years.

1. Cartoons. This is something that any kid of a similar age cannot refuse. Find online, buy or rent cartoons with simple English phrases. At first, children may not understand speech and guess the meaning of the plot only by context and intonation. However, regular browsing leads to the fact that the child begins to understand the simple phrase “Hallo”, “Bye-Bye”, “Thank you”. It is very important not only to listen to these words, but also to ask the child to repeat them in order to train the pronunciation.
2. Cards. This is another way to teach kids. In stationery stores there are special cards on which the names of furniture, animals, vegetables, body parts and other groups of words are written. Under each picture there is a name in English. You can repeat these names with the child, and then try to find these objects on the street or at home. That is, you show it on the table, but not the one in the picture, but the one that stands in your house and ask the baby “What is this?”.The baby must answer in English "Table". To make the process more memorable, you can not buy cards, but make them yourself with your child. While the child draws another object or animal, say its name in English several times.
3. Use phrases in everyday life. If you have already learned a few words, you need to use familiar phrases in everyday life. Tell your baby “Have a nice day” when you leave him in kindergarten, “Good evening” when you send him to bed and “I love you” when you want to express your emotions.
4. Give the child a toy "Englishman." It can be a hare, a doll or a teddy bear. Tell the child that the bear speaks and understands only in English. This will not only allow you to separate the speech, but also make the child speak if he is still shy about his pronunciation. That is, when the baby says to the bear: “Go to bed,” tell the baby that the bear does not understand and ask them to say the phrase in English, after telling it to him. In the future, the tips will need less and less. This method of learning the language is also successful because together with the bear you can find yourself in different life situations - at the doctor’s reception, in the canteen, on the playground.A wide range of everyday situations will allow you to expand your knowledge of the English language and use phrases that may be needed in a particular case.
5. Poems, riddles, songs. Kids best remember small and capacious phrases, most often in rhyme. Therefore, adopt short phrases that are easy to remember. On the walk, invite the child to sing together those songs that he liked. And when dad comes home from work in the evening, by all means make one of the riddles he has learned.
6. All parts of speech. Many parents, studying with a child on their own, make one common mistake. They teach him only a noun - dog, cat, apple. As a result, the baby can not express only objects. It is very important to learn adjectives, but do not speak so clearly about parts of speech. Just tell the baby that “beautiful” means “beautiful” or “beautiful.” Sit down, get up, run and accompany all these actions with English words. In general, use in learning all parts of speech that may come in handy in a simple conversation.

In a conversation with a small child do not try to build too long and complex sentences.For simple phrases and initial speech, three times are enough for you - Present, Past and Future Indefinite. This knowledge is enough to help your child learn simple conversational phrases that are used most often.

How to teach the student language

If your child is already in school, simple phrases will not get off here. In addition, you need to start learning grammar and spelling. But you must understand that the whole process should be interesting, so that the kid does not lose his curiosity about learning a language.

Start learning grammar stands with the alphabet. It is not difficult to learn letters, act in the same way as with your native language - we show a letter, we talk about words that begin with this letter. Special attention should be paid to the letters Sh, Ch, C, etc. Work out all the options - in which cases the pronunciation of the letter changes.

When the child learns all the letters, teach him to read simple words. Be attentive to the pronunciation and proper reproduction of sounds. It is very important to prepare not only for the child, but also for the mother, regularly filling the gaps in knowledge. After all, if you once miss the wrong pronunciation of a word, the kid will be sure that he is speaking correctly.This leads to a habit that is quite difficult to eradicate.

After reading the simple words go to the simple texts. As you read the text, ask the child if he understood everything that remained to him unknown and incomprehensible. You should not constantly prompt the child to translate the word, give him the opportunity to learn independently. Suggest together find the word you are interested in in the dictionary and find out its meaning. When the baby begins to understand small simple texts, ask him to tell him what was discussed. In the process of studying grammar is very important to pay enough attention to oral speech, which is usually always lame.

To attract a child to read in English, buy him an interesting book. These may be simple fairy tales, but it is best to acquire a detective story or children's adventures. If the child is about 8-10 years old and has sufficient English vocabulary, give the child Tom Sawyer in the original. The book itself is very fascinating, the child will try to find out what will happen next, even if some words are not yet clear to him. Interest and curiosity is what learning should be built on.

In the future, it is only advisable to teach a child independently if you yourself know the language at a professional level. A more serious skill in speaking and writing will be helped only by an experienced teacher or native speaker. Your task, as a parent, is to give your child the base you are capable of. If classes are interesting, and most importantly, regular, you will be able to achieve impressive results.

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