Robin Said:

Best games for elementary children learning English that are great for native English speaking kids too?

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Do duck duck goose but before they can run they have to say a word that begans with a letter like you would say C they could use. Cat Cookie Cake Cloud.

Erika Said:

i want to make my own english school?

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Before I start on the first part of your comment (starting a business) I have to say something about your last remarks about being bored with your own kids. Don't forget that these formative years are the most important of all - and you shouldn't just be looking after them - but you should be sharing this wonderful time WITH them, as they grow and discover the world around them. Be a kid with them - you'll never get these wonderful years back - and in the future you'll wish you could, believe me!
Now to your main question....
I've been teaching EFL for twenty years - and am still learning how to do it! It's not as easy as it sounds - if you want to do a good job that is! Firstly, you should take a good Introductory course iin TEFL - go to the British Council website to find out about them. Most language school owners in this country worked in other language schools first, to get to know the ropes, and gain invaluable practice in dealing with students etc. It takes a real love of the language plus love of your students to succeed. It's tiring, exhausting sometimes, but very worthwhile, especially when you send a student out speaking and writing good English, which you know s/he learnt via you! Once you feel you're ready for your own school, you'll already know enough about the field to decide how best to compete with other schools. I have been teaching privately for the past few years, self-employed that is, and have never had to advertise yet! Students come to me by word of mouth because I've worked hard and diligently and have gained a good reputation. If you just dive in at the deep end and open a school before you know much about it all, you'll waste so much time making mistakes and may give up the whole project.

Clifton Said:

where i can find best free education games for kids and highschool and english learning/improving websites?

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http://www.learn-english-online.org/
http://www.englishpractice.com/
http://a4esl.org/
http://www.eslgo.com/classes.html
http://www.1-language.com/
http://www.teflgames.com/games.html
http://www.marks-english-school.com/game…
http://www.manythings.org/

I just did a search on free online esl and free online esl games.

Angela Said:

Teaching kids/ kids Drama age 3t0 6.?

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Try opening a blog at wordpress.com . Its free and you can post articles about your work .

For English learning try Rapidex.

Sam Said:

Should I correct my husband's bad use of the English language for the sake of our kids learning?

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I don't think you can really correct the way he speaks now, as he is used that and even if he tried to changed, he would go back to that way of speech without thinking about it. What you can do, is when your child says something incorrectly, correct her. There's nothing wrong with that.

Juanita Said:

Do you think there should not be bilingual education in public schools?

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in some ways, you're correct. This is how young children learn English (and are often the first to learn it in immigrant families because of the high exposure), often better than any other member of the family. In most circumstances, it's an inevitable: the kids that move to America will speak English, so why not get it over with, right?
I don't know. Oftentimes, this conversion or transition not only assimilates the young children, but it does so at the expense of their family heritage: they lose their culture and everything their family knew before they left. This is a tragedy. There is much to be said for family ties and keeping true to your culture. Part of culture is language. There is a balance to this, certainly. The educational system can't be training and staffing teachers to teach in Urdu, Yoruba, Punjabi or Portuguese and cater to every person who walks in the door, but would they be doing these foreign students some justice (and giving them some head start here) by getting them a good foundation in education in their mother tongue as they learn English? Perhaps. In a perfect world, children that come to America would retain all of their cultural background and not lose it to English and America, while still learning to function in society as they deserve to. In the real world, however, the infrastructure required to do so is probably beyond the scope of most (public) schools.