Introduction: I bring you the benefits of learning English nursery rhymes. I hope I can help you. Thank you for reading. Enjoy your reading.
The benefits of learning English nursery rhymes
1, enlarge vocabulary
The acquisition of a second language requires repeated practice. Children's songs are characterized by cheerful rhythm, short length and repeated sentences, which are easy to stimulate children's interest in singing and easy to remember.
For example, "Ten Little Indians" links Indians with numbers, and teaches children to speak numbers through interesting plots and cheerful rhythms, thus improving children's interest in learning English and expanding their vocabulary.
Another example is that old MacDonald has a farm to help children learn the names and sounds of various animals on the farm; On the other hand, the head, shoulders, knees and toes teach children English expressions of all parts of their bodies.
2. Develop a sense of English language
There are usually two kinds of nursery rhymes. The first kind is short and pithy, such as Jack Benipur. The whole nursery rhyme has only four sentences, a protagonist, two adjectives and a verb phrase:
Jack is agile.
Jack, hurry up
Jack jumped over.
Candle stick
The plot is simple, catchy and rhymes at the end of the sentence, which not only meets the children's simple and intuitive cognitive needs, but also helps to cultivate their sense of English language.
The second kind of nursery rhymes is longer, but the lyrics themselves are simple and repetitive, and sometimes only some phrases are replaced in each paragraph, such as "Mary has a lamb":
Mary has a lamb, lamb, lamb,
Mary has a little lamb whose fur is as white as snow.
Wherever Mary goes, wherever Mary goes, wherever Mary goes, wherever Mary goes, the lamb will definitely go.
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This nursery rhyme uses the past tense of verbs. Although children may not understand it from the perspective of grammar, when they are familiar with children's songs, they can subtly establish a sense of language and lay the foundation for future grammar learning.
Step 3 improve emotional intelligence
Nursery rhymes are more about telling stories, usually from the perspective of children, telling the relationship between people or between people and nature, and inspiring children's interest in exploring nature and respect for life.
For example, in the adult world, spiders are usually terrible and evil, but in Little Spider, the little spider is very humorous, interesting and naughty. Mary has a lamb, which tells the story of the friendship between the little girl Mary and the lamb. These nursery rhymes with the theme of animals can cultivate children's love for animals and raise their awareness of potential dangers.
The story of five little monkeys is also very interesting. Five little monkeys were jumping on the bed. As a result, they fell off the bed and hurt their heads, so they had to see a doctor. This nursery rhyme focuses on animals, telling children that jumping on the bed may hurt them, thus improving their self-control.
Third, how to teach English nursery rhymes?
Since learning nursery rhymes has so many benefits, how should babies learn them? The following are two common methods of EF, which can also be used at home.
1, nursery rhymes combined with TPR total body response teaching method.
In nursery rhymes teaching in Europe and America, teachers will use a lot of TPR(Total Physical Response) teaching method, which can make children's language learning in the left hemisphere directly related to the behavior system in the right hemisphere, so that children can understand the meaning of nursery rhymes most efficiently.
TPR total body response teaching method will also be applied to the classroom teaching process of EF.
For example, Hickory Dickory Dock is a nursery rhyme:
Hickory wooden dock
The mouse ran on the clock.
The clock struck one o'clock.
He ran down.
Hickory wooden dock
First, the teacher will let the students watch a video, so that the students can understand the story intuitively. After reading it, the teacher led the students to dress up? Little mouse? (Mouse), what the hell? Run? Pose (running up), pose with your body? One o'clock? (a), and then make it? Run down? (running down) posture.
The teacher encouraged the students to sing with him while doing the movements. In this process, both auditory, kinesthetic and visual learners can quickly master the rhythm and rhythm.
2, independently complete nursery rhymes related small crafts.
In the second half of the course, ef teacher will lead the students to make some small crafts related to the nursery rhymes they have learned. For example, after learning three blind mice, they will ask their children to color the mice or cut out the image of a mouse. This activity can deepen children's understanding of nursery rhymes, exercise fine finger muscles and improve their attention.
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