Dream English Teaching Tips Podcast

A Tip To Start Your New English Class! Young Learners

I’ve been getting many emails asking my advice about how to start new classes with young learners of English. My advice: Keep it simple! Download the numbers song for FREE at dreamenglish.com/numbers Thanks for listening!

Teaching English With Songs: Jobs Song How To Teach And A Fun Game to Play

I Love teaching English with SONGS! Today I will talk about the Jobs Song for Teaching English to young learners. We will cover the vocabulary in the song, the phrases, how to teach and a fun game to play after singing the song. Download a free mp3 of this song to use in your classes at www.dreamenglish.com/jobs1 Happy Teaching!

Halloween Lesson Plan for Children's English Class -Teaching Kids English

In today’s podcast I talk about a fun and simple Halloween lesson plan for young learners. Using songs, books, and games, let’s have a fun Halloween lesson! Here is the lesson plan: 1. Warm Up 2. Halloween Counting (Count Halloween characters) 3. Halloween Numbers Song 4. Halloween Game 5. Halloween Worksheet 6. Book Time - My Favorite Pumpkin Book 7. Song Time- My Favorite Pumpkin, Walk Like a Ghost 8. Trick-or-Treating 9. Goodbye Song Download all of these free songs, books and worksheets and dreamenglish.com/halloween Thanks for listening! 

 

Young Learners English Lesson Plan - A Simple Lesson Plan for English Class

In today's episode I talk you through a simple lesson plan that I used with my preschool English language students. It was a thrity minute class, with about 20 students. We had a lot of fun. You can expand on these ideas if you have a longer class. Here is the lesson plan in brief:

1. Warm Ups- clap your hands, etc. 2. Weather Song 3. Count from 1 to 10,000 4. Let's Count 1 to 10 Song. 5. I Like Apples Book 6. I Like Apples Song 7. Pick Up Color Apples Game 7. ABC Letters and Vocabulary Practice 8. ABC Song 9. Goodbye Song. You can find all of these songs for free download at DreamEnglish.com (Free Download Page) the Book is a free printable download from KidsEnglishBooks.com Happy Teaching!

Teacher Talk - Six Questions with Greg from Fun Kids English

I'm really happy to have Greg from Fun Kids English (www.funkidsenglish.com) as my first guest on the podcast. Greg makes great kids songs, phonics readers and more with his team. I asked Greg six questions about his teaching method, favorite songs for the classroom, his basic lesson plan and more.Have a listen, and I'm sure you will find some useful information for your classes!

You can search for Fun Kids English on YouTube, Facebook and check out at www.funkidsenglish.com. 

Back to Basics #1: Numbers Teaching Numbers in English Class for Children

In this podcast I talk about simple and effective ways to teach numbers and counting in your young learners English classroom. Songs, games, and how to practice numbers. Here are links to the numbers songs I use in the classes:

1. Let’s Count 1 to 10
2. Let’s Count to 20
3. Counting to 100 by 1s

For more information, and to read about this post please visit www.dreamenglish.com/blog Happy Teaching!

Teaching 2-3 Year Olds English: The Basics for the Classroom

Today on the podcast we will listen to a conversation I had with Mark from MES English about our basic philosophy in teaching very young learners English. We talk about how to relax in class, what to expect from the students, and how watching Sesame Street can help you with class ideas. You can listen to the whole conversation at ESLTeacherTalk.com. This podcast is brought to DreamEnglish.com and the Dream English Kids YouTube Channel. Thanks for listening! Matt

Lesson Plans # 1 Colors For Young Learners of English

I hope to do a bunch of Lesson Plans Podcasts to help everyone with planning their lessons. The first episode in this series is Colors! Colors are a basic part of English for your young learners class, and can be lots of fun. In this episode I talk about introducing colors, color songs, and color games. This episode is brought to you by DreamEnglish.com and the Dream English Kids YouTube Channel. Thanks for listening!

Top 5 Classroom Games For Young Learners

Hi! In this episode I talk about my Top 5 Classroom Games for teaching English to young learners. You only need a few good games that you can use over and over again with differnet vocabulary. Have a listen for some of my students favorites. Visit the Kids Games Page by going to the home page of DreamEnglish.com For more fun game ideas!

Teaching Children English With Songs

Hi! In this episode I talk about a favorite subject of mine, teaching English with songs! I talk about how I teach songs in the classes to young learners. I also talk about different kinds of songs like action songs, finger play songs, and more! 

Here are the songs I mention in this podcast:

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Eency Weency Spider, What Color Is It?, Goodbye Song

Check out over 100 free songs and chant downloads here.

Thanks for listening!