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“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 put it into practice. His concept of how a full immersion in the sounds and structures of English in the lower school creates a fruitful basis for an increasingly conscious approach to grammar in the middle and upper school is illuminating and will provide teachers with a clearer understanding of these subtle, yet vital connections.”
Prof. Dr. Peter Lutzker

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CONTENTS

Introduction

1.Class One Inner Preparation for Class One1. What Class One Is Like

2. Beginning the Lesson

3. Speaking With Fingers, Hands, Arms And Legs

4. Speech Exercises and Tongue Twisters

5. Long And Short Words or Syllables

6. A Note On Reciting Lines Of Poetry

7. Further Examples Of Poems To Recite

8. The Silent Beat

9. Counting-Out Rhymes

10. Listening Exercises11. Action Rhymes

12. Language-Learning Games

13. Ring Games and Singing

14. Stories and Story-Telling

Class Two

Inner Preparation for Class Two

1. What Class Two Is Like

2. Some Didactic Principles For Class Two

3.Beginning the Lesson Chatting with the Class

4. Speech Exercises and Tongue Twisters

5. More On Long And Short Words

6. Verses Just For Sound

7. Counting-Out Rhymes

8. Ring Games and Action Rhymes

9. Singing

10. Language Learning Games

11. Story-Telling

12. Classroom Language for Class Two

Class Three

Inner Preparation for Class Three

1. What Class Three Is Like

2. Some Didactic Principles For Class Three

3. Speaking Practice

4. Verses Just For Sound

5. More on Short and Long Words

6. Speech Exercises / Tongue Twisters

7. Action Rhymes

8. Ring Games

9. Singing

10. Language Learning Games

11. Practising irregular Verb Forms

12. Role Play

Class Four

Inner Preparation for Class Four

1. What Class Four Is Like

2. Didactic Considerations for Class Four

3. Writing Phase I: Copying Things Out

4. Writing Phase II: We Point Out And Discuss Spelling Regularities

5. Writing Phase III: We ‘Discover’ Grammar Rules’

6. Tongue Twisters

7. Speaking Exercises (Fluency)

8. Poem Recitation

9. Writing Phase IV: Writing Tasks

10. Story-Telling and Recitation in Class Four (Cont.)

11. Reading Books

12. Singing

13. Looking Ahead to The Next Class