Beginner Class #2

At the beginning of the second Beginner class, we played Alphabet BINGO to review phonetics. Then, partly to transition and partly to introduce new words, we played the tactile spelling game, using the following list of words: hello, think, glasses, purse, father, pants, after, put, computer, letters, like, family. You can define these words as you go; our students liked to scribble them down in their notebooks.

I then introduced “family” words. We learned/ reviewed family words: father, mother, daughter, son, husband, wife, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, grandson, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin.

To practice creating sentences, I drew my family tree (dad’s side), writing in names of my relatives. I asked questions about the relationships between different people on the tree (Who is Pam?), and the students practiced answering in English sentences (Pam is Erin’s mother). We did this for a while, writing the answers on the board, correcting pronunciation, and discussing “’s”, showing possession.

Before finishing the lesson, we discussed nominative pronouns, translating them into Russian: I, you (singular), he, she, it, we, you (plural), and they.

To wrap up the class, we played Hangman; this reviewed family vocabulary and spelling. Perfect!