While teaching the name of the fingers, we teach the song called “finger family”
While teaching the name from Sunday to Monday, we teach them the song “Sunday”.
On Christmas Day, we teach them “jingle bells”, the words are not very difficult:
jingle bells
dashing through the snow
on a one-horse open sleigh
over the fields we go
laughing all the way
bells on bob-tail ring
making spirits bright
what fun it is to ride and sing
a sleighing song tonight
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-horse open sleigh
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one horse open sleigh
a day or two ago
I thought I 'd take a ride
and soon miss fanny bright
was seated by my side
the horse was lean and lank
misfortune seemed his lot
he got into a drifted bank
and we, we got up sot
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-horse open sleigh
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one horse open sleigh
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one horse open sleigh
jingle bells, jingle bells
jingle all the way
oh what fun it is to ride
in a one horse open sleigh
5.2 English movies
The students like watching TV. They also like watching movies, especially cartoons. There are many English movies, and they are interesting and useful. Maybe the students cannot understand every sentence, but I only ask them to listen carefully. They need not catch every word, but only the words or sentences they have learned in class. That’s what I want.
There is a lesson in Junior English for China Students’ Book 2B (PEP) called Miss Evans. It’s a story about the accident of titanic. When they learn this lesson, I let them watching the movie Titanic.
I ask them to write down at least ten sentences they heard in the movie. This stimulates them to listen intently. And this is also not very hard. Most of them can write down more than ten sentences. So it can make them more confident.
Most of the time, we let them watch cartoons. Because they are children, cartoons are more suitable for them. We have watched “Snow White”, “Beauty and Beast”, “The Incredibles”, “Shark Tells” and so on. Through those movies, we increased the students’ English levels, fostered their interest, and perfected their intonation.
6. Organization of various of competitions
We learn English, and then we must use it. So we must give the students the chance to represent their English. Competition is a good way. We can hold some competitions like handwriting, speech story telling, short play performance and handwriting newspaper and so on.