Not knowing how to get the child interested in learning of English language, many parents simply force their children to learn a foreign language simply "because it is necessary." But children should feel genuine interest and motivation for something, so that "must" be replaced by "want". Only in this case can you expect positive results from teaching your child the English language.

17 tips to get your child interested in learning English

1. Learn English with your child. This can be done while watching cartoons, both in English and in Russian, translating words and phrases that the cartoon characters pronounce.
2. Use foreign words in Everyday life... For example, you might study the names of foods and utensils at lunch, and while walking, the names of vehicles, flowers, and trees.
3. Say the requests in English, thereby reinforcing the basic ready-made phrases in English in the child's memory. This may include requests to remove toys, fetch water, or provide a pen or piece of paper. Say hello and goodbye, apologize and say thanks in a foreign language.
4. Play English songs just in the background or hum them yourself. The child will listen and memorize the words.
5. Constantly alternate between different ways of teaching your child English: reading books, watching cartoons, memorizing words with flashcards, computer games for teaching English.
6. Praise and encourage your child for any successes in memorizing vocabulary, and even more so for independent use of it in everyday life.
7. Do not study when your child is not in the mood. You will not be able to interest a child in English if all his thoughts are directed towards some kind of experience, or if he is very tired.
8. Be sure to enter game moments, because best of all, the child perceives something new precisely in the process of playing.
9. Create didactic material together. For example, you write the words in English on the cards, and the child - in Russian and colors the cards.
10. If, when teaching English, a child is categorically against some kind of activity, for example, he does not want to write foreign words in any way, do not force it. Forget about it for a while and come back later.
11. Take breaks during classes, arrange game breaks, during which you can jump, run, or just calmly chat about abstract topics.
12. English lessons with children younger age should not last more than 30-35 minutes.
13. Do not expect quick results and do not be angry with your child if he cannot seriously become interested in English. If he is constantly scolded for not knowing a foreign language, the child will have a stable negative attitude towards English, which will be almost impossible to get rid of later.
14. Show your own interest in learning English. Children, for whom parents are the authority, constantly exhibit such a property as copying. If you are not indifferent to the successes and problems of your child in learning a foreign language, then he will study with greater dedication.
15. Choose interesting, colorful, illustrated books, textbooks for English lessons.
16. Tell your child how English will be useful to you when you travel. After all, English can be spoken in any country, because it is international.
17. Choose a good tutor. A teacher who will like a child as a person, as a person, as a teacher is 50% of success (another 50% is hard work and regularity of teaching). Professional teacher will not only be able to teach the child English well, but he will also be able to easily and naturally interest the child in English!

In general, it is undoubtedly always much easier for preschoolers than English for later schoolchildren. Small children are happy to learn the world and absorb new knowledge, including natural languages, like a sponge. The process of learning a new language by adolescents is already more mechanical, especially in the classroom.

But there is something to be wary of: so that your child's native speech does not turn out to be neglected or underdeveloped! In pursuit of English for children, do not forget that Russian itself will not develop very much either, which is more unpleasant.

It is a well-known fact that the modern, and even the old school of foreign languages ​​completely discourages all the desire to learn English for schoolchildren. If you want to somehow remedy the situation, try to find paid English courses in which the student will be interested and pleasant to attend. The group of students, as well as training program English for children should be appropriate for the age and level of your child. You may not be lucky the first time around, but don't stop looking if you want to get real results.

Don't just limit yourself to courses that teach English to high school students in a standardized way. Find something that your son or daughter will be really interested in, connect your children to the search. It can be your favorite TV or animated series with English voice acting. Even if this is your favorite video game, but always in the original, without translation into Russian. Suggest reading a new edition of your favorite novel in English (such as Harry Potter or The Adventures of Gulliver).

English is a joy for children when they have to do something really exciting. Ask to translate for you words from a popular English song, (of course, without using the Internet!) Or from an English song by their favorite artist. And then - find the biography of your favorite singer, actor, writer in English and retell it to you. The child will have to sweat with the dictionary, but he will figure it out - and this will be a great progress.

Thus, you will turn English for students into an exciting experience, and he himself will want to continue to study it.

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I teach English at a school for gifted children. This school works with those who dance, sing, play musical instruments beautifully. Having a tense extracurricular activities: concerts, rehearsals, festivals, performing arts contests, children learn the basics of general secondary education. In these difficult conditions for every child, health-preserving technologies are of great importance.

First of all, I try to organize the lesson correctly. Frequent change of activity - reading, listening, speaking, brainstorming, which is organized in a chain, independent five minutes, brainstorming homework is an integral part of every lesson. Each type of work should not exceed 10 minutes, since the delay in completing the assignment leads to fatigue, and stronger students begin to emotionally crush the weaker ones, which is categorically unacceptable. A differentiated approach and creating a friendly atmosphere in the lesson are very important for a positive attitude.

Forms of work in English lessons

The children of our school often visit different countries at festivals. There they are faced with the need to communicate with peers. But on the other hand, they see that in many countries the service staff speaks Russian, and sign language helps in various situations. Using this experience in my lessons, I spend emotional discharge - in a short time, children should, using the vocabulary already studied, and maybe sign language, solve the proposed problem, such as buying water in the store, asking the way, finding a toilet without using any one Russian word. These play situations in a positive way help students remember clichés that further aid them on their travels.

The most favorite activity is working with the song. Singing activates the functions of the respiratory system, increases the emotional mood. I use this activity as differentiated homework, a project that results in a performance at a school-wide concert. For example, Lara Fabian's song "My Mom" ​​sounded beautifully at a concert dedicated to Mother's Day, and at the same time, the students performing it worked out pronunciation, vocabulary, translated, and, psychologically, overcame the language barrier.

How to get students interested in English lessons

- recipes for English cuisine and more. For example, making sandwiches in fifth grade - and talking about hygiene and healthy eating when the topic of "Food" is studied. As differentiated homework in higher grades, I offer a choice of a message about the traditional cuisine of a country (Japan - 8th grade, making bento), a recipe, or the preparation of a dish suggested by the authors of the textbook.

- holidays. The guys make up about the unusual holidays of the world (project methodology) or arrange a holiday in the lesson (it depends on the class, potential and employment). For example, the most favorite lesson for the fifth or sixth grade is the last lesson of the second quarter, in which we devote 10-15 minutes to the Christmas holiday. The guys rip up homemade crackers, give each other greeting cards in English and, of course, sing Christmas songs, which they enjoy learning in free time... High school students study the world's Christmas songs and search the internet for interesting New Year traditions. With especially creative teams, we celebrate Halloween. Children come up with in advance horror stories, practice pronunciation, come up with costumes and the last ten minutes of the lesson (preferably the last lesson of the first quarter), we sit on the floor around the pumpkin, the students tell their scary stories with various effects, and after that we go to "scare" another group. Such a lesson has great amount positive aspects - and activation of writing skills, strengthening lexical and grammatical skills, practicing pronunciation (after all, it is very important to be understood), and preserving health, a positive attitude, emotional charge, development of creative potential, a situation of success (compensatory skills - lack of correct pronunciation, as a rule , more than compensated by artistry).

All this and much more allow students to enjoy the lessons, tune in to a good pace, because if it is not boring, then a lot can be done, and, oddly enough, with a lot of work outside of school hours, almost all students come to my lessons with their homework completed. ...

Of course, no one needs a constant holiday and entertainment, and you can relax only after you have worked hard, so it is very important to interest and captivate children. It is a pleasure to play enough with them while they are in the fifth or sixth grade, and then, when they become older, to solve already difficult, but interesting problems, also associated with a healthy lifestyle. Topics taught in middle and high school such as proper nutrition, sports, ecology, bad habits young people are actively discussed during the translation of texts, listening to various dialogues, in dialogues and when working in a group. Students process information, which contributes to the formation of the correct worldview.

A variety of lessons, frequent changes in activities, an irreducible lesson pace, a differentiated, personality-oriented approach, the presence of emotional discharge contributes to an increase in work capacity, reduces anxiety levels and strengthens the health of students. But most important of all, health saving technologies, it is a positive attitude and a benevolent tone of the teacher. Expectations of new and interesting things from each lesson, smiles and good mood after, the opportunity to show not only your knowledge, but also Creative skills- all this has a positive effect on the psychophysical health of both students and teachers. The most important achievement is to see the smiling, glowing eyes of even the most shy child and hear how the children retell the lesson to each other on the way home, remembering interesting moments.

to use for teachers?

And lately I have been working a lot with teenagers. This is a really special category of children, which is not aimed at learning in principle. It's hard to motivate them. The potential is greater than that of, but it can be more difficult to cope. There are, of course, differences in private tutoring and in the classroom. If a teenager comes to class, he usually comes to socialize. Laughing unnecessarily, yelling in class, and proving your point of view can cause clutter in the classroom. Oftentimes, the poor teacher has to put in a tremendous amount of effort to get the students interested.

As soon as the teacher mixes a cocktail of strictness, respect and fun, he gets best result... I remember my teenage childhood. I always wanted to make fun of the teacher (Reason is boredom), who peacefully sat next to me and turned the pages. But the thought “ Yana, dear, this is not a reason to mock the teacher, even if you are bored“.- always stopped me from a rash step. I want to say to teenagers and children: “ Yes, I understand that you have a lot of problems, and your favorite serial hero disappointed you, and you are also afraid to go to school, because there you are bullied not only by your teachers, but also, sometimes, by your classmates.". In one of the interview programs about the school education system, an interesting thought flashed: school does not always contribute to socialization... It happens that children withdraw into themselves and no longer come out of the shell.

The key to successful teaching with adolescents is to grab their attention. What's the hardest part. And help them learn it. What a rare kind of altruism, you say! And you will be right.

You cannot teach anyone anything by force - you can only open the door to knowledge.

NOTES FOR TEACHERS.

1.FIRST DAY ... Yes, that very first day when teens form a conscious and unconscious opinion of you in general. Although you may seem relaxed and friendly, don't untie their hands. If a teenager has a goal to prepare for something, he should be faced with the fact how much work he will have to do. Efforts to complete the task and subsequent SMALL encouragement can seriously get them off the ground.

2. STRENGTH... What, of course, I miss. Strict but fair teachers are highly valued by this age group of students. I remembered my school history teacher. Everyone was afraid of her and tremblingly admired her. In my experience, teenagers are different. After 16 years, young girls and boys are able to digest information like adults. But not before. Although, in my practice there were exceptions. If you are too friendly with a teenager, then he will not perceive you as a teacher and will not do assignments. (There is also such an experience). At the end of the day, it is difficult to get someone to study, so classes should be no later than 20.00. Also, broadcast to them the idea that you are in control of them, because you are a strong and kind teacher, and not because you are forced by the director or work. Also, if possible, but not very often, encourage your students.

3. SHORT TERM GOALS ... For a teacher, a year may fly by unnoticed, but for a teenager, it stretches like a snail on a leaf. It should be set for a short period so that the teenager's nerves do not lose

4. MOTIVATION.

How the hell are they? They don't want to learn at all! We know, we heard.

Usually teenagers don't like topics in school textbooks. If you ask them what topic is closest to them, they will probably give you the answer "None." Either they will remember something vulgar or. Even if you bring material that is interesting to them, they can react in the most boring way. The problem is not the topic,. You can sometimes diversify the message-in-a-bottle approach to the lesson. Imagine that you find a bottle, and there is a note and a story. You open the note, read part of the story, and instruct the students to write the end. Then all this together can be read. The finished material will leave room for imagination.

5. HUMOR... Laughter can make teachers come to class. I remembered our chemistry teacher. She was rude, tough and shot with phrases like: "Look at me, in front of you ammonia." But everyone went to her class to make fun of her for the most part. Each exit to the blackboard was accompanied by a performance that everyone was waiting for, and we chose the next victim from among our classmates.

Tell us, share your experience and ask how they would act in a given situation. Use. Or take a literary flamboyant character. Teenagers are very fond of reasoning on the topic. Any teenagers: both cheeky, and immodest, and narrow-minded and smart. Smart in particular. Give them this chance. Back it up with some grammatical topic, for example: If I were you, I would.

Remember. It is very important for teenagers to know what is happening now, and not what happened 100 years ago. They are not interested in personalities, they are interested in themselves and their desire to express themselves. They love to talk about what they hate or adore. Cycle about what infuriates them. Often, teens are emotional and a little aggressive. If you keep up with the times, then you have a great chance to succeed in adolescents. Hold your attention and give them a chance to speak up.

It is very important for the average teenager to know why he is doing a particular job. Of course, you don't always have to be a jester-entertainer, but you can find the best approach and believe me, teenagers will love and appreciate you.

WHAT CAN BE USED.

• 1. MUSIC... They just love music, especially .
• 2. WORK IN GROUPS ... Teenagers can be lonely psychos and self-righteous selfish, but they still seek support and interaction with people.
• 3. ROLE-PLAYING GAMES... Let them imaginethat they are hunters in the forest or vampires. Or a princess. Or scary goblins. When teenagers have the opportunity to play not themselves, they get excited.
• 4. CLASS KNOWLEDGE... You need to know what a group of teenagers or individuals of this age are interested in. Even bad intentions and actions can be corrected in this way. For example: The problem of drugs, alcohol and smoking.
• 5. SPEED. Fast speed and switching between topics and tasks. Works not only on teenagers.
• 6. GAMES... What games can you play? Competitive. This is the most interesting thing. Get involved.

Do you like to communicate with teenagers?

Have a great day

Pavel Burtovoy

Video designer of the St. Petersburg media channel "First Popular Television". He is fond of cinematography, animation and everything connected with it.

The son is studying English at school for the second year. I recently found out that his knowledge in this area is just awful. Even the alphabet had problems. I had to do something.

For some reason, the method of memorizing words using double-sided cards did not work in our situation. Probably due to poor knowledge of the alphabet. O different programs for a smartphone, I generally keep quiet: a child's language learning is not zero, but rather negative, so that he can be interested in these programs.

I had to rely on the experience of my predecessors to develop and test my own method. Well, and personally lead the learning process.

A bit of theory

Memorization can be reduced to a cyclical process of three components:

1. Perception.
2. Repetition.
3. Testing.

When we want the information to be remembered by the child, the task becomes more complicated: it is not clear how well he perceived it, how many times he repeated it, and testing the student leads to stress and negative emotions in case of a poor result.

Let's look at all three components of the memorization process and how you can improve them.

Perception

For high-quality perception, it is desirable to use as many types of memory as possible: auditory, visual, motor. You can also add such a variety as verbal memory.

Repetition

When repeating the material, oddly enough, an effective method turned out to be multiple recording of the studied with their simultaneous pronunciation.

I read about this method in the memoirs of one Soviet intelligence officer... He called this technique the most effective for increasing vocabulary.

The effectiveness of combining multiple rewriting of words with their simultaneous pronunciation can be explained by the fact that all possible types of memory are involved in the process.

Rewriting allows you to automate the process, to depersonalize it. In addition, the recorded words document the fact of repetition and allow you to find out which material is remembered better and which is worse.

Testing

When testing knowledge, it would be good to hide the fact of testing from the child, but leave the reward if it is successfully passed. That is, hide the whip, but stick out the carrot in every possible way.

If confirmed, then the cycle of "perception - repetition - testing" is interrupted. If not, we repeat. This creates an incentive to learn all the material faster.

In this case, knowledge is obtained in portions and checked in portions, and not like this: "Sit down, now I will check how you learned what you were asked today."

How the method works

Since my son did not know the alphabet very well, we started with him. I found the simplest recipes on the Internet, similar to these:

First, I got from my son a complete association of the pronunciation of each letter with its writing: this will be very important in the future. After the alphabet, we moved on to words. For this I used and continue to use a regular student's notebook in a ruler or sheets from such a notebook. In the margins I write the Russian meanings of the words (expressions) to be learned.

These words must be written on the corresponding lines. Since each word is new, I give permission for the first time to rewrite it from the textbook. Then the son writes the word as many times as will fit on the line.

At the same time, he not only writes, but every time he says the word out loud.

At the end, the sheet turns over, and there is a surprise! On the margins are the same Russian words, and their English counterparts need to fill in all the lines, but without peeping into the textbook.

Three important points:

1. I'm a child, I don't blame him for mistakes.
2. If he does not remember the spelling, then I spell him (this is where a good knowledge of the alphabet comes in handy).
3. If a child wrote and pronounced a word without prompting the first time, then there is an agreement between us that he does not repeat it on the entire line. In the future, the word is removed from the lists. It is considered that it has been learned and the cycle "perception - repetition - testing" is completed for it.

The process is repeated until all words from the original list have been eliminated. The photo below shows about the fourth iteration.

In the same way, we previously taught the alphabet with our son. I wrote in the margins in Russian "hey", "bi", "si", "di" and so on, and my son filled in the lines in English capital and lowercase letters.

Pros and cons of the method

The method has several strengths. Almost all types of memory are involved: auditory, visual, verbal and motor. Learning is stress-free, the student does not suffer.

The rules of the game are simple and fair. We can say that the method works automatically and the result appears as if by itself. A vivid demonstration of the dialectical principle of the transition from quantity to quality. The algorithm is applicable for repeating forgotten material and is easily scalable for different word sizes.

The method provides the student with objective criteria for achieving the goal. There are real incentives to quickly learn everything and go for a walk.

The disadvantages of this method of learning are also obvious: it takes a lot of paper and a "supervisor".

The son learned the spelling and pronunciation of the English names of the days of the week in the evening. The next day I got on verification work five, the teacher's praise and surprise. And this is not the only success.

It was also interesting to observe how the material, if not repeated. First of all, the ability to write without mistakes disappears, then pronunciation begins to suffer, and the sound of the word is forgotten last. But the ability to recognize him in the text remains for a long time.

I don't think the method is ideal, but using the described memorization mechanisms, you can always come up with something of your own.