TeachingEnglish: Motivating activities for primary
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What are the self-study modules in Motivating activities for primary?
- Module 1 – Understanding vocabulary for primary
The aim of this module is to explore how to make learning vocabulary effective and memorable by considering a variety of strategies, activities and resources. You will identify factors that make vocabulary more memorable, describe how to adapt vocabulary activities to different age groups, as well as use a variety of activities and materials to make vocabulary memorable.
- Module 2 – Understanding games for primary
The aim of this module is to explore the advantages of using interactive games in the primary classroom. You'll evaluate a range of games and watch several teachers in practice as they lead games in their classroom. You'll describe the advantages of using games in the primary classroom, identify some of the main issues with playing games and have strategies ready to prevent them, as well as plan how to use and teach games suited to your learners' needs.
- Module 3 – Understanding songs, rhymes and chants for primary
The aim of this module is to demonstrate how songs, rhymes and chants can be used to create motivating lessons and enhance children's learning. The module also looks at exploiting and adapting songs, rhymes and chants with different age groups. You'll describe how songs can enhance children's learning, describe how rhymes and chants can enhance children's learning, as well as identify different techniques for adapting and exploiting songs, rhymes and chants in the classroom.
Course reviews
What have other teachers said about how Motivating activities for primary helped them?
"I am applying the knowledge to my teaching methods, accordingly. Previously, I'd rush through the vocabulary to 'dive' into the meat of the matter. Now, I put more emphasis on teaching the vocabulary / actions prior to telling a story or repeating chants / songs."
Course participant, Japan
"With my fifth grade students I have used the bus game to revise vocabularies related to goods, vehicles, day of the week and vegetables."
Course participant, Senegal
"I may not be confident in my singing ability, but incorporating chants and rhymes gives me a practical and enjoyable alternative. It also helps ease the guilt I sometimes feel when relying on recorded music, especially since I’ve often felt my singing voice isn’t quite up to par—so this feels like a great middle ground."
Course participant, Viet Nam
I do have an account and I've successfully registered for a couple of other courses, but it doesn't seem to work with this one.