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Class 1: BEGINNING THE LESSON / DIDACTIC CONSIDERATIONS

There are of course thousands of ways of beginning the lesson. This is an example – just to give an idea. The teacher wishes Class One a good morning (first speaking, then humming, then singing these words):

Good morning, Good morning!

Oh, what a sunny morning.

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English All In: Activities, Songs and Rhymes For Classes 1-3 & Writing and Reading Exercises For Class 4

by Alec Templeton & Michael Hevesi

Available: click here “Drawing on more than four decades of teaching, Alec’s book offers EFL/ESL teachers a valuable collection of material for grades 1-4, along with helpful methodological suggestions as to […]

How to Learn Non-Latin Letters

This is an excerpt from the book:

“Even if you are an adult and want to learn a language that uses Non-Latin script, use the pictorial method to learn its letters. Don’t try to memorize the new lines of the new letters in an abstract or direct way.

What does this mean?

You draw […]

How to get children to speak English – a suggestion by Alec Templeton (video)

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Teacher Steiner – a script based on Rudolf Steiner’s life and work

Teacher Steiner – a script based on Rudolf Steiner’s life and work (available on Amazon)

While working at the Waldorf School Vienna West and the Karl Schubert School in Vienna, I conducted research in archives and libraries to study the life of Rudolf Steiner. I also visited various locations in and around Vienna where […]

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Just Published!

English All In: Activities, Songs and Rhymes For Classes 1-3 & Writing and Reading Exercises For Class 4

by Alec Templeton & Michael Hevesi

Available: click here “Drawing on more than four decades of teaching, Alec’s book offers EFL/ESL teachers a valuable collection of material for grades 1-4, along with helpful methodological suggestions as to […]

Teaching Foreign Languages in Blocks

Mimicking the teacher at Waldorf Steiner school English lesson

I have always thought that the best way to teach a language in a classroom is by creating an atmosphere which enables pupils to take an imaginary trip to the culture of the given language. If we have ever had the chance to travel, we […]

Teaching the little ones- how we acquire languages

Teaching young children is one of the greatest possibilities to get rare insights into how language is being acquired, and sometimes into how language itself is being created. Experience mimicking and synchrony!

Sixteen years ago I had a busy and exciting summer. I was preparing for teaching English and Spanish to primary classes at a […]

Kato Lomb on Motivation to Learn Languages

Kato Lomb was a very important polyglot who learnt about 25 languages and worked with 16 of them as a translator. She advocated reading books in foreign languages without using a dictionary in order to gather a huge amount of vocabulary. Paradoxically this is a very effective way to achieve proficiency in a foreign language.

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WORKSHOP by Alec Templeton (English Week)

Alec Templeton’s next courses:

English Week: 1-6 November 2026 (Kloster Altenberg, Odenthal)

Registration here: https://www.english-week.de/registration

“Sunday, November 1st to Friday, November 6th, 2026

Since its founding, the English Week has always seen its primary task as offering language teachers different possibilities to develop and support those personal and professional capabilities which Waldorf teaching, understood […]

Was wünscht sich eine Deutschlehrerin?

Im Gespräch mit Frau Margarete Orlik-Walsh, die Deutsch als Fremdsprache im Mittleren Westen der USA unterrichtet. Seit 21 Jahren arbeitet sie an der Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor im Bundesstaat Michigan. Sie erzählt wichtige Erfahrungen, u.a. warum epochaler Fremdsprachenunterricht gleichzeitig den Schülern und den LehrerInnen dient, oder wie man sogar eine dritte Fremdsprache an […]

Bereicherung durch den Fremdsprachenunterricht

im Gespräch mit Nikolai Höfer- Hauptorganisator der Internationalen Deutsch-Woche in Berlin

M.H.: Seit wann machst Du bei der Organisation der Deutsch-Woche mit und wie bist Du dazugekommen?

N.H.: Vor zehn Jahren ungefähr war ich zum ersten Mal als Teilnehmer in der Deutsch-Woche. Die war noch damals am Seminar in Witten angegliedert. Zweimal habe […]

Editorial

Editorial

 

Acknowledgment and the Concept

First issue Lingua W

Dear Teachers and Parents!

First of all we would like to thank for the contributors! Don’t hesitate to send us further articles, ideas, methodology topics, photos, interviews, experiences etc. in the language you teach.

We hope that the enthusiasm being present in many contributions […]

 

 

 

 

Dick Whittington

This is a famous nursery story about a historic figure, Dick Whittington. Thanks to the affectionate care of Mr Fitzwarren Dick Whittington, an orphan has the chance to stop sleeping rough in the streets as one of the homeless. By selling his cat in a foreign land plagued by rats (where cats were unknown) he […]

King Arthur (Class 7)

This piece illustrates the entire development of King Arthur, from the beginning when he is a young page, to his death at the end of the play. He learns self-discipline and resists temptation. A perfect choice for class 7 for play-acting in English!

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Class 4: KING BEETLE TAMER (by Robert Sim)

The story is about a poor boy named Orfeo, who, because of his love of animals, is given a ring by a magpie. Whoever owns this ring is allowed to marry the princess. However, as Orfeo does not come from a noble family, the king opposes the match, but Orfeo proves by his […]

Materials to use in classes

Play-acting in class: (We permanently load this up, please send us your materials you use and can recommend to the other English teachers)

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class 4 : King Beetle Tamer class 5: The Fall of Troy class 6-7: Dick Whittington class 7 : King Arthur

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For class 1, Class 2

And here […]