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Play school. Make a little classroom with a toy or a family member as a student. Your child is the teacher first, then the student. Each student asks 3 questions: "May I go to the toilet, please?", "Can you say it again, please?" and "May I have a pencil, please?"
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I'm learning "English from Zero 4: confident speaker at school, in shops and with friends" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "At school: May I...?".
What the lesson teaches:
- "May I...?" and "Can I...?" both ask to do something. "May I" sounds a little more polite, so it is good with a teacher.
- Put "please" at the end: "May I have a pencil, please?"
- "I don't understand" is a very useful sentence. It is OK to say it. Teachers want to know.
- Use the same English phrases every time, in the same place. Children soon copy them and use them in new places.
- Short and often is best: a few minutes, up to about ten, once or twice a day.
The exercise I'm working on:
Play school. Make a little classroom with a toy or a family member as a student. Your child is the teacher first, then the student. Each student asks 3 questions: "May I go to the toilet, please?", "Can you say it again, please?" and "May I have a pencil, please?"
I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "At school: May I...?" from the course "English from Zero 4: confident speaker at school, in shops and with friends".
Here's what the lesson says:
At school we ask the teacher for things. We say "May I..." and "please". The teacher is happy to help when we ask nicely. Before this course: English from Zero 3: short stories, reading and telling (course 6.9.3). Your child can sound out short words, read little words like "the" and "was", retell a story with first, next, then and at the end, and describe people and places. Now we use English in real places: school, the shop, the doctor and the playground.
The activity:
Play school. Make a little classroom with a toy or a family member as a student. Your child is the teacher first, then the student. Each student asks 3 questions: "May I go to the toilet, please?", "Can you say it again, please?" and "May I have a pencil, please?"
Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.