Preschool esl resources for fun learning

Access an abundance of preschool activities and games and never be short of an idea again. There are one hundred games which include several hundred ideas to teach English to your preschool children in fun ways.

Choose from lively games to quiet ones to keep your children under control yet give them the variety that they need to be stimulated during your lessons.

Games make learning fun so your class and children are willing participants and not just there because they have to be.

Choose from listening and comprehension games and vary and reinforce with communicative speaking games.

Make use of hundreds of ideas for vocabulary acquisition and revision.

Remember that repetition is the mother of skill. These preschool ESL activities incorporate repetition as part of the natural learning process.

Hundreds of ideas to make learning words and short phrases and sentences fun and varied.

Many games and activities include movement so the children learn through what is known as the total physical response.

There is a corpus of research which shows that this is necessary for preschoolers if they are to enjoy lessons and learn effectively.

Activities games and ideas are included that you can use while chanting, singing or saying nursery rhymes.

The games and activities do not involve competition so your preschoolers will not become stressed or overwhelmed. Everyone plays and takes part in harmony.

Use the bonuses provided including illustrated stories especially written for the ESL preschool English language learner.

There are TWO levels of text, one for complete beginners and one for children who have been learning English for a year or two.

Teach any language you like using hundreds of flexible ideas provided

Very little preparation is needed for these ideas so you will have more time for your own personal life.

You can easily control the children by switching to calming games when you need to calm everyone down or throw in an exciting game when you want to pick up the pace. Variety is the key and with over one hundred games you are spoiled for choice.

These games are really super for preschoolers and guaranteed to help you with your lessons.

Ten Stories with Fun Color Illustrations

Vocabulary and language is introduced gently and progressively using a combination of new language and revision of what has gone before. This makes these stories a perfect ESL teaching resource because not too much language is introduced at one time, so even three year old language learners will understand and learn from these stories, gradually building on their vocabulary. Each story is fully and beautifully illustrated in color so the children can listen and understand easily. You can see examples of the pictures from the different stories below, as well as the language that will be learned and reviewed from that story.

The first story introduces seven animals and the greeting, "Hello, how are you?" "I'm fine thanks" and "I'm hungry". The animals are all cute and friendly looking and use the same language throughout the story. The second story introduces a few more and includes the animals from the first story.[8] The children will learn and animals and practice counting to ten as Anna goes to the zoo, sees the animals and counts how many there are. The third story revises counting and introduces colors as Archie jumps round a course of colorful jumps on his pony, and things do not always go as expected! The fourth story revises the greeting from story one, and colors and animals. Some new words from nature are introduced such as grass, flower, pond and path, plus the short phrases "Is that you?" and "No, it's me". There are some really fun games to play with those phrases. The fifth story involves a group of ten cute little ants which are marching down a path, and which drop off to sleep one by one in different places. This revises the word ant, all the numbers and the colors from stories two and three, the nouns from story four and introduces some new words plus the short phrases "I'm tired" and "falls asleep".

The sixth story stars a very cute cocker spaniel and revises several the nouns from stories four and five and introduces action verbs such as run, shout, walk and chase. In the seventh story the cute cocker spaniel chases some ducks and loses her master. This story revises vocabulary from previous stories and introduces more action verbs. Story eight involves an ant which has a hard time getting his teddy bear to go to sleep. Again there is a mixture of revision and new words and phrases, including some more action verbs and "I'm tired" and "I'm not tired". "The kids absolutely adore stories 1-10. The big favourite here is the bear with his own teddy bear, they think that's really funny and ask for this story over and over (though by now it's THEM telling ME the story!" from Genevra Keywood, teaching in Spain"

In story nine Hetty invites a lion to tea. This story revises greetings and some vocabulary from previous stories, and introduces fruits and the question "would you like some …?"

And story ten introduces the days of the week and Gerard the Giraffe who eats far too much. You can use the numbers 1 to 7 if the days of the week are too hard. The story also revises the vocabulary from story nine.

The stories on their own are really lovely, and they all have adorable characters or a cute twist at the end that appeals to preschoolers, and adults too for that matter!

Pre-teach language with fun games before telling the story

You can also play games and activities before the story to introduce the key vocabulary. And after the story you can have the children act out the characters while you read the story again, play games using the illustrations.

Full details and descriptions are provided for pre and post story games and activities. This means that you do not have to spend time coming up with your own ideas as they are already included. As well as the story-related games and activities you can play before and after the story-telling itself, there are tips on the different things that you can do while you are telling the story. This will vary depending on whether it is the first time you are telling the story or if the children already know it well and keep requesting to hear it again. The better the children know the story and the words involved the more they can participate in the telling of the story and be actively involved rather than just passively listening.