How to start teaching kids English - #1
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2017
- If you're thinking about starting to teach kids or you're considering becoming an ESL tutor, here are my 3 tips to help you feel a little bit more confident for that first lesson!
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I loved your tips. I was terrified here cause I am going to teach a 6 years old boy and I hadn´t idea how to start. Then you give me one way to follow. Thank you so much
Me too
You came like a miracle to me. I was challenged to teach little kids and I was kinda panicking. I have no idea of how to interact with small children and tomorrow I'll have my first class with them and I had no idea of what to do. Most of the videos, here on CZcams, are with kids in a "advanced" level of knowledge. Your tips were everything that I needed. So, Thank you a lot.
Hi Arthur! Your comment made me so happy! I really hope this vid helped! How did your class go? How many kids did you have in your group? First lessons are always scary - especially when you don't know your students. If I'm not sure what to do I usually just try to have fun and this creates the mood for the lesson and all the kids end up having fun - even if we're doing just simple tasks. 😬Let me know how it went! 🙌
Hello, can you tell me what age your learners are ? Whether they know the English Alphabet or not? And how do you start teachinh them? Orally first? Or teaching writing along?
Hi! I've taught all ages! From 3 year olds and up. It's hard to answer your question because it depends on the learning. If it is a 3 year old child I start orally first. Songs, games, talking and showing - so being very expressive in what you're doing, kind of like a mime so that they can guess what you're saying by your actions. I usually start with introductions. Hello, my name is... ect. And repeating with the child, adding other toy animals to join our group - so you introduce yourself to a teddy, and you reply as the teddy, gives the child and example to copy. But usually I do most of the talking. Writing you can use if the child is older and already knows how to write. But pictures and drawing to communicate always works best. With adults, sometimes I join oral + writing so that they can see the word while I say it and once it's written down they can practice it later. Maybe you could give me a specific example? That would make it easier for me to explain. Also check out my video How to use drawing to teach. czcams.com/video/hGd9d_vLXtA/video.html
Maybe it will answer some of your questions. :)
Hi! I’m a nine year old, and my first language is English, my grandma in law is chinese, and we’re moving to US, so I have to teach my grandma english。😂
Wishing you the best of luck! Your grandma is going to love having you as her English teacher! ☺️
Did u say grandma in law?... Huh?
Good luck to you
you are a sweet teacher , good luck
Könül Aslan
What she wrote is perfectly correct.
I'm nine years old>I'm a nine year old girl>I'm a girl and I'm nine>My age nine and I'm a girl>I'm a young girl who is nine etc.
Puppets usually work pretty well for me (especially for kids who are too young to focus on drawing etc). I love to get kids to feed a puppet with a mouth that opens. It can be as simple as touching a food flashcard on the wall, and then giving it to the puppet. Thanks for the nice ideas.
I'm a teacher of English myself from Algeria, and you had me at " sit on the floor"--kudos to you and thanks for the videos.
please contact me i need u
Thank u for advice. I work in kindergarten and searching the ways of making educational process understandable and of course, want to rise their interests to English.
thabk you, great advice and your energy is lovely
I love you! Thank you so much I am going to apply as children's teacher tomorrow and this helped big time!
Shari! I’m so happy to hear that my video helped! I hope it gave you the confidence you need for tomorrows meeting!! Good luck!! 🍀👍 Fingers crossed! 🤞
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I have been searching for something like this for ages! In a way, I have come up with the same ideas (being an artist as well) but was not sure about it. It is called integrated approach in teaching and I find it wonderful, even more, the only valuable and worth to use!! Thank you so much. Here is my courage to start practising it. From Russia with love.
Elena!! Thank you so much for your comment! I've been a little bit slow with posting videos lately but your comment has given me extra energy to carry on making new videos. So here we are encouraging each other! :)
Yes, integrating the two makes me feel more comfortable as a teacher and it helps make a quick connection with the people you teach. Wishing you the best of luck and fun with your teaching and I promise to get back to work making new videos!!
I love your content. Help me so much as a parent who try to teach my kid English
You are a really good teacher! Please tell us more! :)
I have to take a few lessons for primary and secondary tomorrow. Thank you your video helped me boost my confidence!
I was looking for tips to help me teaching in the primary school thanks for your ideas ❤
My parents tells me that I have to teach my 4 year old little sister and they will pay me if I do. I just want the money😂
Nice
Great! 4 year olds are cute! I hope you guys have fun on your lessons. I find that the best kind of lessons with 4 year olds is just playing with them with their toys...in English! And extra pocket money is a great motivator. Good luck!
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi ty!
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Hahaha, I can't believe it, I'm in the same situation now. Happy to know I'm not the only one! 😂
Hi Suzi, I will be a English teacher in primary school next month, but I am an introverted person, I'm worried about my class makes my students feel boring.
Hi Vee! I believe that the most important thing is to be yourself and to teach in a way that YOU'RE comfortable with. If you look at different activities online, do the activities that you know you'll feel comfortable doing or adjust them to suit you. If you're enjoying your lesson your children will too! You can try to spend more time one on one with kids to get to know them better but also so that they can get to know you better.
Rosy rosado would like to know too
I’m Japanese and I want to be an English teacher in the future. It’s good to know the tips. Thanks!
Are you now?
any news on this @Sioklis gentleman's/lady's question ma'am?
This is going to help me so much, I’m going to be teaching my nephews English and I need help so I’m definitely going to use this video to help them:)
Great! I'm glad you found this useful. Good luck with your nephew! :D
Lovely! Many thanks!
Thank u so much a like the way u talking and everything about u
yep, in two days from now ill give my first lesson in primary school, I am terrified. Good luck to every teachers wanna be coming to this video.
I did it, I survived three weeks of primary school. The teacher assistant is an angel who understands me. I am more confident now and planning on a halloween class.
@@TheNealzarka Ah congratulations!!! And thanks for the update! :D I hope the Halloween class went well!
@@TheNealzarka Halloween class? Cool
Amazing teacher your tips are actually great
Thanks for your tips
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Thank you so much for the video, I might be working as a tutor in an english teaching program in Italy and I’m so scared that I will make a child feel uncomfortable because of my English language. I will try these methods!
My objective when teaching kids:
Make it FUN! English will eventually become a stuffy, but my goal is to get the kids to get excited and about English! Associate it as a positive
Drawing skills comes in super handy! This is true especially for me. I'm sure dancing is also a great teaching skill.
Always research games and tools and tips. This is a mental battle between you and the kids. They will quickly let you know when they're bored.
I'm struggling with discipline. One of my student is very high strung and quick to tears if she is not winning. I can't just keep changing my lesson plans to fit her whims.
Is this high strung student of yours an individual student or do you teach her in a group? If it's a group lesson and everyone else is having fun but her, I understand it can be difficult to adjust the lesson to her needs, but maybe you could give her another option to do? Or if the group is bust put her into a "team" so she won't be an individual player?
Teaching English with Suzi
I teach her in a group of two girls. I had to (reluctantly) tell them not to squabble if they didn’t want to pay a quarter. I wish I had a better method.
But today was a very good class. I love my students.
@@hbanana7 I'm glad to hear that today went well. That must be a very satisfying feeling. And I know how difficult some lessons can be. I had one very competitive student who if she saw she was losing she would just lose interest and wouldn't want to play anymore. I had to think of games that didn't have a winner. Story games worked great for her - we created stories together and put them into a book, she also loved teaching (and said she wants to be a teacher on day) so I got her to teach me things I didn't know, the only rule was she had to try explain it to me in English. ;)
Hi! Thanks for those amazing tips.
Im only 14 and i've been asked to teach children, since here in my city we dont have that many possibilities of getting free English classes.
Thanks a bunch for this tips ♡
Im looking forward to learning more languages and teaching them :3
Hey! I'm in a similar situation to you(tho I'm a tad bit older) and i was just wondering how things were going?
Suzi thank you sooo much.I start teaching english my little sister and your video is so helpful for me.
Hi Suzie, what a wonderful video, so encouraging. Good luck to you!
haha! :D Thank you for the kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. All the best to you too! :)
Thank you this was really useful and you're such a sweat person 😸
You are very inspirational... Thanks for the videos.
Thanks David! That just made me do a little jig! :D New video should be out soon! :)
Hi Suzi I am graduating this year from English language teaching department and I am going to apply for a job I was little bit nervous how can I start with kids 🙂So thank you so much for informing 🙏Now I have some ideas for demo lesson you saved my life 🙂
Thank you, Miss.
Thanks for sharing these important teaching tips, I really treasure then.
Thank you for this comment! :) I'm glad you found them useful! As soon as I have time again I will make more. Fingers crossed! :D Wishing you all the best!
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi Thanks Suzi, enjoy yourself.
Well, this was really helpful to me! Thank you for making this video. I was struggling for a little. I'm only 13 years old and I'm teaching my neice online. At least I get some run for my money.
Omyghod thanks it helps me cause im about to teach a child later and I'm a bit nervous because it was my first time to be paid. Btw I'm just a high school student and the kid was elementary (primary) student thank you very much it helps me calm and got some idea
Thank you so much!!
I really enjoyed watching your videos😍😍😍
You have been amazing for the first time good luck teaching👍
Thank you! 😃
You're such a rock star Zuzia!! xxx
Aurelia Lambrechts & your smile is beautiful let's be friends my WhatsApp is 0092 302 4210300
Thanks very much for ur tips they really workouts uot 💪💪💪💪💪💪
Hello any chance you can advise me on what programs and material I can use to be english teacher CZcamsr for kids? also I want to know if I can use something like vocaloid or similar Im not a programmer and I cant draw.
Such a wholesome video
Thank you!
Thank you so much! This is really helpful.
You're very welcome! :)
Good work
Wow great tips
You' re 100% right.
Great tips, thank you!
You're welcome! :)
I'll have a class with young children in two days.I was finding some tips to build an interesting class for the kids and I found this You helped me gain my confidence! I was wondering if you could make/share a lesson plan of yours for me to follow! Thank you.Subscribed
I'll try put something together for you! How did your class go???
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi The first class went well,although I got stuck about what things should i teach in the next sessions.Your tips worked perfectly!
Hi. I am an English teacher. I am Ecuadorian and teach english in Ecuador. Coul you give me some tips to make my classes more fun and enjoyable. The kids in my school are unruly and i have classes with 30 or 34 students. I would appreciate any advice you could give me. ☺
Suzi, thank you for your video! It helped me a lot, now I'm going to start teaching children English, so I was a little bit nervous and confused, didn't know what to do, how to start.. now I learned some things;)
Hi! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck teaching and let me know how it goes!
You can try to tell them story
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Ohh that was really helpful, tomorrow is my first day on teaching English kids at nursery school, I’m so nervous
thanks for posting the video
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:D Thank you for watching! I hope to have a lot more video's out soon!
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You did great😊
Thanks! ☺️
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Hi, I'm still in high school but I really want to become a English teacher for little kids. Do you have any suggestions for me.
Thank you for this video !
You're most welcome! :)
Love your vid ❤️ just subscribed, nice to meet you 😇
Ah! Only saw this comment now! Nice to meet you too! :D I hope you enjoy the rest of my videos! Thanks for subscribing!
My uncle is forcing me to teach my cousin English and I myself can't even speak the language fluently. But thank you for posting this video, it's very helpful
Thank you🫂🤍
Thank you so much , greetings from Wroclaw! ;)
Ooo! Hi! And you're welcome! Wrocław is one of my fav cities! Hope you're doing well! :D
Thank u so much madam for ur great lovely to us i believe we a going to take an action
You are very very welcome! :) Good luck and enjoy your lessons! :D
you look amazing
What about teaching them with flash cards initially ??
I am English and my wife is Thai with a 12-year-old daughter. We live in Bangkok & my stepdaughter needs to pass an English exam to move up to a senior school. I have 10 days in which to teach her the basics!!
Oh man! What a challange! My reply is pretty late but I hope you managed? How did it go?
Far from speaking anything like fluent English but she passed the exam. Very bright girl and knew more than she was letting on. She had been listening to me for the past year and taking it all in. I'm really proud of her. If it is of any use - She could already count to one hundred which is brilliant because we live by numbers - time date years etc etc. I taught her ‘yesterday’ ‘today’ & ‘tomorrow’. Which immediately gave her a vocabulary of one hundred and three words. I stuck to common everyday words; learning words such as Christmas was completely pointless, she is Buddhist and they don’t officially celebrate it. Taking your advice we sat cross-legged on a bed to learn. I take an interest in her interests, trying not to be too invasive (being close to becoming a teenager they need some space) which somehow caused her to have a desire to teach me. That’s good because my Thai is minimal and being language related fitted in very nicely.
Oh wow! It looks like you did a good job! I love the fact that you decided to go for the "sitting on the same level" and taking an interest in her interests. I bet that already gave your relationship an extra boost! The fact that she wants to teach you is perfect and you could use this to your advantage! I taught a very difficult group of 12/13 year olds and every lesson plan I prepared went out the window. I finally gave up because I spent the entire lesson trying to convince them to do what I had planned and failed anyway so we stopped doing my lessons, and I stated becoming curious in what they were doing and got them to try and explain it to me in English. The boys taught me how to do bottle flips and we recorded their "flips" on my phone so we could rewatch it together later, the girls were really interested in this app that lets you record your dance moves and helps you lip sync by slowing down the song and they explained how that works and we tried to record some songs together using the app and it changed my relationship with the kids around! I was letting them teach me, but in doing so, I was teaching them English without them even knowing it! :D
thank you very much for your tips
how did it go? I'm going to start teaching English to kids as well, and I'm having the same fears lol
@@mbrunnen04 Ayyyy firstly congrats! secondly, they would still see you as an adult or a 'big human' and they were soo nice and cute and funny! you just gotta play some English songs and lullabies and umm... Idk be patient? and do A LOT of activities to make them more positive about the subject.
If you see a shy (or a little naughty) kiddo be extra patient with them and focus a little bit more on them when it comes to the activities to make them get used to it.
That's all what I can tell you I guess the rest is up to you and good luck
I have to teach my little sister english she is 6 years old
Hey, I wish you all the best, thanks for this video. I was wondering how did you start from begging to learn kids English as second language? I got so inspired by you . My English is good & I love teaching kids. So i will appreciate you if you tell me a little bit of your method. Do you teach certain books to your students? Can you please tell me how can I start from zero
Hi zahra
I'm about to start teaching a 9 year old child
His mother mentioned that he knows ABCD so i think i'd like to teach him first friend books which i used to study when i was a little kid as well
What are you up to now?
Did you start teaching or not yet?
I guess from my experience
Teaching kids
Is just by let them watch cartoons for long time and speak with them in English even if they are don't know what you say
And after long time like two years or one
Start teaching them how to read and write
I have a niece that's not really familiar with English and my parents wants her to learn but i dont know what to start with. Thanks for this vid
You're welcome and good luck with your niece! She's lucky she gets to learn English AND spend extra time with her uncle! :D 2in1!
Thanks a lot 😘😘😘
Saltanat Sabitova yay! You’re welcome!!! 🤗
I've been asked to teach kindergarteners at a children's shelter here in Mexico and I really don't have any idea on where to start.
Could you please give me some advice? I'd appreciate it.
Great video. Thanks for the tips!
Hi Daniel! That sounds like it's going to be quite the adventure. :)
How old are the kids you're going to teach?
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi 4 to 8 years old :D
@@danielcolorado1189 Aaw! Cute man! Well, I'd start with an introduction ;)
I'd start by saying hi, saying my name and asking them whats their name. You could bring in a toy (if you're comfortable with that) and treat your toy as a student - so you'll be creating an extra example so that the kids will know what you expect from them. You introduce yourself, and then your toy introduces itself. Depending on how much time you have with them I'd plan out a couple of activities and try to keep my first couple of lessons in the same order. Starting with hello, what's your name - it could be in a circle - passing around a ball, and then planning out some simple activities ie actions - something along the lines of Simon Says. So stand up, sit down. You could bring something "interesting" with you. Something from home, a box of interesting things that you can name, and on each lesson there could be something new in the box.
Example:
Introduction, Hello (names in a circle)
Actions (stand up, sit down)
Secret box with something inside
Some game? / Drawing activity?
Goodbye
Each lesson would then have the same structure but you add on something new. One week it's "hello my name is" and then the next week it could be that + "how are you? I'm good!" etc...
If you're comfortable with singing you could find some songs that you could add on to saying hello in the beginning and goodbye at the end.
Does this help in any way?
Thank you for this advice~
I‘m 20 years old atm so I obviously have never taught a child! I’ve been doing my internship at a kindergarten before but all of them already knew german since they grew up over here so I’m kind of nervous to teach that 5 year-old child 🥺🥺
I planned on doing it naturally by playing and simply talking but still- oof
Thank you for this video though 🌻
I have had so many people ask me to teach English to their children. My own have been learning from birth, so it is difficult for me to imagine speaking English to a child who only knows English in terms of TV shows or songs like Baby Shark. Many parents have said "oh they can understand English they watch Peppa pig and laugh." But I know if I watch with my daughter shows in English when I ask her what she understood she may just guess from what she sees. Not necessarily from the words alone.
I want to tutor kids from grade 1-6 (I'm 14) Ur video rly helped!!
So nice video. And you are so kind and lovely💕😍
Aww! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi Welcome 😉 Tomorrow is my first lesson as an ESL teacher in China. P. S. Wish I can be your friend.. Do you have insta?
I do have instagram! :) I hope your first lesson went well! :0
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi It was great!:) Add me please in Instagram: felicealexx
I like this video so much ❤️
Aww. Thank you! I hope it was helpful! :) Wishing you all the best!
Thanks
wonderfull explainging.. thanks
Useful tips
I hope they help!! :D
Can I ask how to start? For the age of 4 and 5 . Is the best to teach then objects and colours? And is it a good thing to give them a cookie or something like a treat after doing a good job?
I would start with introductions.
Things like:
How are you?
I'm good! How are you?
What's your name?
My name is...
His name is...
Her name is....
(Here you're adding in girl, boy, his, her,)
I add these in as games and as songs - if you don't mind singing. (Check out Super Simple Songs) If you're teaching a group, children can practice with each other or you can ask them to introduce their friends. If you're teaching one-on-one you can create characters and practice/play with them. Have a look at my video where I create characters and then add different objects to the character - his food, his car, his bed, and so on --> czcams.com/video/zlFRjhPFe0E/video.html&lc=UgxYynuwImtJoJgw5ut4AaABAg&ab_channel=TeachingEnglishwithSuzi
This will be great with 4 and 5 years olds!
As to treats, I personally don't think this is a good idea as children that young then focus on the treats more than on interacting with you and learning. If the lesson is fun that will be a big treat in itself. Instead of treats you can bring interesting things to your lessons to tell children about, or buy some little crafts that kids can use in their creative projects during your lessons. Eg, some stickers, or googly eyes for adding to the creatures that they create. The fact that they can make something on your lesson and then take it home is a great treat in itself. :)
Hello, thank you so much for the video! I am targetting 5-6 y.o kids, and I am so puzzled on how to start teaching them? Orally first? Or teaching writing along? They don't know the alphabet (neither reading nor writing)
I'd go for orally first! :) Even as babies we first start to learn a language by listening, and then later we start trying out words. So talking to them, showing them pictures, mimicking actions and singing songs with actions is a great way to start. You could implement the alphabet a little later, for eg, basing a lesson on a letter. Like, a whole lesson with things that contain the letter "A". Something similar to what they do on Sesame Street?
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Haha! Aww! Thank you! :)
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Thanks! ☺️
This is so helpful
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Dziękuję bardzo ;)
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i’m in 9th grade and i just got a job to teach a 6 yr old english, and i’m super nervous. this video was a little bit comforting but do you any tips for me? he’s chinese and i speak some chinese, and i’m teaching him english starting this sunday (today is thursday)
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I have to teach my 7 y.o son to English. So 😂trying to discover some useful tips😀
Hi! My favourite is DRAWING with kids! You can check out this video: czcams.com/video/zlFRjhPFe0E/video.html - Here I do it with my 20month old daughter but you could adjust the game to do whatever your son is interested in. Here I draw a [man], but both of you could draw a monster or dinosaur together and name different parts while you're drawing, then you can draw their food, or where they live etc. and name it in English - then do the "envelope game" at the end to do a quick revision.
Aaand, you could also adjust this game to fit whatever you want: czcams.com/video/lFmWwOSwHXU/video.html
Have fun and good luck!
I am hopely going to teach ESL in China next year kinder then elemantary level
Ooo! Good luck! That sound likes it's going to be an exciting adventure! Is it going to be your first time teaching ESL?
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi yes it wil, I teach piano classes here in US but very few kids
Thank you for your answer
Hello I want to teach English my son I'm a Nepali my language is Nepali my son is know 6 years old how can I teach him please could you tell me the best ideya
Hi, Suzi, I am a student in college, I will be a teacher English for kindergarten students but my English language is not very well. How can I improve my English?
If you try reading more books or watching movies or anything that is associated with the language you want to get better at it. Maybe learning some songs helps too. That's what I know, I hope it helps
Im billingual and I just got a private class opportunity with an 8-year-old. I will binge watch your videos just to prep me up
ooooh! Good luck! Or if you've already had your first lesson...how did it go?!
@@TeachingEnglishwithSuzi It's been quite a roller coaster ride with her. There were times she was really into what Im teaching and there are times she was bored to death. But what you said about kids hating it when the teacher draws better than them was absolutely true🤣🤣🤣. We did a "draw your ideal Halloween costume" thingy, and she was killing me with her stare because I drew mine better than hers😅😭
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hello! what about zoom classes??? any advice?
I'm still working on that myself. But I love using shared whiteboards like miro.com for example. Then we can draw different objects and add sticky notes to them and it feels like we're almost in the same room. Sometimes we also play games like Pictionary where one person thinks of a word we recently learned on our lessons, or even a sentence and the other person has to guess what it is.
🎉 recently I was working on an Oxford group of about 5 and the headteacher toll me that I don't have to work on the Floor 😢
"Don't have to" or "can't"? If the headteacher said "don't have to" it sounds like it's your choice and you could always share your motive. :) If it works for you and your students and the headteacher is reasonable I'm sure they'd understand.
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Hi Jamaimah! Sure! It would be an honour! :) Good luck with your project!
American 3-year-olds who already speak English: *exist*
Me,a 12-year-old who speaks English since age 4: *You dare oppose me mortal*
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