Early English Learning for Basque Preschoolers

Ilazki Zabaleta, Terese Larrañaga,
Nerea Zubia and Aitziber Rodriguez
Project
THE CONTEXT:
Our project will take place in Luzaro, a school which situated in Deba
(Gipuzkoa). Deba is a small town which has a public school and the Basque is the
principle language. In this school are children from 3 to 12 years old. The family for our
school has a medium socioeconomic status.
We decided that the children of our project will be 5 years old. But they are
going to begin learning English or do the first approximation with English with 2 years.
We think that this age is appropriate because, is better to start early as they have
some skills that they haven’t when they are older. Also, with 2 years it could be
recommendable that they heart English and be exposure with this language.
In our class, we will work with 15 pupils who have 5 years old, but one child is
from Sahara since one year. He is Rashid, Rashid is 5 years old and he is adopted. Is
black and he has got black eyes, and he has a very expressive face. He is shy and he
doesn’t understand very much in English. He speaks Basque with his adoptive parents
and in Spanish with his friends. During English classes, he doesn’t understand anything,
but when he understands something he ignores everything that English teacher say.
The English teacher is not the tutor. We are going to do 3 classes for week of
thirty minutes each class.

METHODOLOGY:
Our main objective is that children could express their self, so that we are going
to work with basic words and ideas about their routines.
Our project has got 4 weeks. We will learn one topic each week, but when we
learn a new topic we are going to review the things that we had seen last week. With
this methodology we can remember all the topics.
PRINCIPLES:

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Cooperation methodology.
Children must participate.
Listen to the ideas for the children.
Use lessons to have a good time.
We use real context.
Don´t use books and don´t teach with grammar.
Speaking practice and use body language.

ACTIVITIES PRINCIPLES:
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Change activity every 5-10 minutes not to get bored.
Mixing excitable games with quiet ones.
Make lessons playful and full of physical movement.
Avoid competition.
Encourage and support young learns.
Use song and puppets to motivate and learn vocabulary.
Concentrate also on speaking practice with a single words and short phrases.
Teacher could be repeated in English all that children said in Basque.
Speak slowly and clearly so that children can understand well.

TOPICS:
First, we are going to practice places they usually go (pool, school,
supermarket, doctor, playground…). Secondly, we are going to teach family (parents,
grandparents, sisters, brothers). Thirstily, we are going to teach how they can express
their feelings (boring, happy, sad, scared). At this way the children will be motivated to
speak about their routines.

1 WEEK

In the first week, we are going to start learning the names of the places like park, pool,
library, supermarket, doctor…
At the beginning of English classes, we are going to sing a Hello song. It is going to be a
routing because all the days we are going to start the lesson with it.
1. class
To teach Hello song, first we are going to put the song and children have to listen it,
then we are going to put the song one more time and children have to repeat it.
Hello song
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello,
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello,
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, I´m fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdukBVPk8Jw

Video about the places
Then, we are going to see a video about town vocabulary. In the video we will see one
by one the places of the town and we are going to say the name and children have to
repeat. Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULzOE1IVYk

Painting
Children should paint the different sites of their town, and they must draw below the
name of the place. The example will be on the board to children copy.

Learn word (places)
After that, we will do learn words activity. With this
activity we want to children can learn the names
that are appear in the video. To do that we will have
a picture where there appear the places of the town
that we have seen in the video and with our finger
we are going to indicate the places and say the
name. Children have to see the picture and repeat
the name. We are going to use the easiest.

Fishing
When we finish learn words activity, we are going to play a game to revise the things
that we learned.
We are going to put a lot of piece of papers on the floor. These papers would have
different pictures about the topic we are learning (places). Also, each picture has a
paperclip to fishing with a cane. During the activity, children have to fishing one
picture and say the name. We are going to use the easiest and the place they usually
visited. Then, the children have to paint the pictures.

Yes or no
The teacher is going to ask questions to the children and they must answer yes or no,
so they should understand the questions.
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Do you buy milk on the supermarket?
Can you play football in the park?
Do you buy cookies at the park?
Can you swim in the pool?
…

Good-bye song
To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song. It is the song that we chose:
Good bye , Good bye
Good bye, Good bye
See you, See you
See you, See you
Thank you, Thank you
Thank you, Thank you
Good bye, See you, Thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tCSl_2ykgs

2. class
To start the second day, like the last day, we are going to sing Hello song.
Hello song
Video about the places

Then, we are going to see a video about town vocabulary. In the video we will see one
by one the places of the town and we are going to say the name and children have to
repeat. Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULzOE1IVYk
Short Story
Then, we are going to tell a story about the places, using the vocabulary that we learn
last day.

I am live in Osio. This is my town, and there are some places in my town. I usually
visited all the places but I like go to the pool.

I am going to visit the doctor because I have a bellyache. The doctor is very nice but I
don’t like go to visit him. I need play with my friends in the pool.

Meanwhile, Sara and Jon are playing in the pool, they are very happy . Everyone wants
to be like them and their invited us, but we can’t go yet.

Pablo is buying apples in the supermarket with his mother, and then, he is going to
pool too.

And Sam, is in the school, and he is very happy, but he wants to go to the pool.

My friends and I, are impatient to go Sara and Jon’s pool at the afternoon, we always
have a good time there.

When we already finished all the task, we met the
other friends at the pool, and we have had a very
good time.
Map
After listen this story children should paint the map of their town. They are going to
paint the different places. Then they must put the name of the places below. The
teacher has got the model in the blackboard.

Finding couple
Then, we are going to do finding couple game. To play this game, we are going to put
on the floor different pictures and the children have to find the same pictures doing
couples. To do this game children have to get up one by one to see what it is behind
the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple, has to
sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”
The last game is going to be Simon says. Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and
then she/he is going to say the word she/he want to children learn. For example:
“Simon says point the finger in the school” and children have to put the finger in the
picture of school. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is
going to have one picture.

Good-bye song
To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song.

3. class
Hello song
We are going to sing Hello song like every day.

Repeat me
After sing a song, teacher shows pictures of each site. For example the supermarket,
and she say to the children: this is a supermarket, and they must repeat. Then, she
does the same with all photos. Thereby, they are going to learn the places names bit
by bit.

Where is POPI?

We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go at the
weekend? With whom? And how did you feel?
So that, we are going to teach the structures to them in order that they can answer to
the questions.
To learn the places we are going to show the pictures for different places and ask to
the children: where is Poppy?

(In the supermarket)

(In the pool)

(in the park)

(visit the doctor)

(In the school)

Finding couple

Then, we are going to do finding couple game. To play this game, we are going to put
on the floor different pictures and the children have to find the same pictures doing
couples. To do this game children have to get up one by one to see what it is behind
the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple, has to
sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”
The last game is going to be Simon says.

Mural
To value children learn, we are going to do a big mural. In this big paper, the children
must paint the places we study this week, and below they must put the name of them.
Then we are going to put the mural on the wall of the class.

Good-bye song


2 WEEK:
In the second week, we are going to start learning the names of the family members
like father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents.
1.class:
To start the class, like in the first week, we are going to sing the Hello song.
Hello song

Video about family members

Then, we are going to see a video about family members. In the video we will see one
by one family member and we are going to say the name and children have to repeat.
Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity. We are going to see the
video two more times. So that children can repeat the words again and again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqOUwh6V-A

Learn words
After that, we will do learn words activity. With this activity we want to children can
learn the names that are appear in the video. To do that we will have a picture where
there appear the members of the family that we have seen in the video and with our
finger we are going to indicate the family member and say the name. Children have to
see the picture and repeat the name.

Fishing game
When we finish learn words activity, we are going to do a game to revise the things
that we learned.
different pictures about the topic we are
learning (family). Also, each picture has a
paperclip to fishing with a cane. During the
activity, children have to fishing one picture
and say the name.

Sing a song
Before the good-bye song, we are going to teach one song about family. The song calls
family fingers. To teach the song, firstly we are going to put the song in order to
children could listen to the song and then, we are going to sing without the song. After
that, we are going to put the song one more time and try to sing at the same time with
the singer. Here is the song that we are going to use.
Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?
Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you?
Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?
Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFcrv6Lfx8

Playing Bingo (we take this from children education blog)
As we want children to practice the vocabulary they have already learnt, teacher is
going to show them a family bingo. In each bingo-card are being 4 different members
of family, teacher is having some cards with the same pictures than the bingo cards.
When the teacher shows and names the card, children who have that card will have to
say: “I have it.”. And when they don’t have the picture shown, they will have to say: “I
don´t have it”. When children have a family member on their own bingo-card, they will
put a macaroni on it, and when a child has the four macaroni on the pictures, he or she
will say bingo.

Good bye-song

To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song. It is the song that we chose:
2. class:
Hello song
To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.
Short story
Then, we are going to tell a story about the family, using the vocabulary that we learn
the last day.

Nazam is reading a book in his bed. He can´t read because he doesn´t know.

So he calls his mother.
-Mom! Mom! Come here please. - And Nazam´s mother goes. Then Nazam said:
- Can you read me a book please?- And Nathams mother reads a book for Nazam.

But, Nazam can´t heard anything because his sister is playing the piano.

Also, his grandmother can´t sleep because of the music.

So, Nazam’s parents buy him a beautiful book that has only images.

And because of that, Nazam is very happy!

Finding couple
The next activity is going to be finding the couple. To do the activity we would divide
the class in two groups. One group is going to draw pictures for our game and the
other group is going to start playing with pictures that have already done. In soil of the
classroom there are going to be same pictures prone and children have to find the
couple for each picture. To do this children have to get up one by one to see what it is
behind the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple,
have to sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”
“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the
picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is

Sing a song
After that, we are going to sing the topic song “ family fingers”.
The picture of our family (we take this from children education blog)
Teacher will show children a picture of her
family and she is going to explain this
picture: “she is my mom, he is my dad…”
pointing her mom and her dad; then, each
child is going to take her or his family picture
and then she or he is going to explain the
picture to the other classmates. Children are
going to use the same structure as teacher
used before “she is…, he is…”, and children
are going to point the picture while they are
explaining it.

Good-bye song
And too finally, we are going to sing good bye song.

3.class:
Hello song
To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.

Where is Poppy and with whom?
We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go in
the questions.
To review the places that we learned last week, we are going to show the pictures for
different places and ask to the children: where is Poppy?
And then, we are going to do the same, but in this case we are going to show them the
pictures of the Poppy’s family.

Poppy

mother and father

Grandmother, sister and brother

Grandparents

“Simon says…”
“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the
picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is
Drawing our family (we take this from children education blog)
Each student is going to draw a picture of his/her family. When they finish their
picture, they have to write belong to each person who is he or she (mommy, daddy,
sister...). Then, they have to show to their classmates their family and explain who
those that appear there are.

Good bye song
And too finally, we are going to sing goodbye song.

3. WEEK
In the third week, we are going to learn names of feelings like happy, sad, bored and
scared.
1. class:
To start the class like other weeks, we are going to sing a Hello song.
Hello song
Video
Then we are going to see a video to learn different feelings. In this video, they can see
and relate faces with feelings. Next, we repeat all feelings with children. Here is the
video that we are going to use to this activity.

In the video we can see a lot of emotions, but we are going to select some emotions to
learn in class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk48QQSPo4

Learn word (feelings)
After that, we will do learn words activity. With this activity we want to children can
learn the names that are appear in the video. To do that we will have different pictures
where there appear the different faces with different emotions. The teacher is going to
show every picture one by one saying this emotion and child have to repeat it. Then,
each child would have one picture and they have to say what the picture emotion is.

Fishing
When we finish learn words activity, we are going to do a game to revise the things
that we learned.
different pictures about the topic we are learning (feelings). Also, each picture has a
paperclip to fishing with a cane. During the activity, children have to fishing one
picture and say the name. In this activity, we use the same pictures that we used in the
last activity.

Mimic
In the first time that we play a mimic, the teacher say a feeling like “Now you are
happy” and children have to change their face and smile. Next, one child of the class
say a sentences that before said the teacher and the other children have to change
their face as before.

Sing a song
Before good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsISd1AMNYU

Good-bye song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcws7UWWDEs

2 .class:
Hello song

Find the couple
The next activity is going to be finding the couple. To do the activity we would divide
the class in two groups. One group is going to draw pictures for ours game and the
other group is going to start playing with pictures that have already done. In soil of the
classroom there are going to be same pictures prone and children have to find the
couple for each picture. To do this children have to get up one by one to see what it is
behind the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple,
have to sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

Simon says
then she/he is going to say the word
she/he want to children learn. For
example: “Simon says point the finger to
the happy face” and children have to
put the finger in the picture of mother.
To do this game, we are going to do 3
groups, and every group is going to have
one picture.

Sing a song
Before good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn feelings.

Mimic
In this time, we are going to play a mimic but the otherwise. One child is going to take
a picture and show it to the others but he or she wouldn´t see it. The classmates
changed their faces according to what they see in the picture and child will have to
guess her or his feeling like “I am bored”.

Good-bye song

3.class:
Hello song

Where is POPI? With whom and how Poppy feel?
We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go in
the questions.
To review the places that we learned last week, we are going to show the pictures for
different places and ask to the children: where is Poppy?
Then, to review the family, we are going to show the pictures of the Poppy’s family,
and ask to the children: With who is Poppy?
To finish, we are going to show the pictures of the Poppy´s face, and ask to the
children: who did he feel?

Simon says
The last game is going to be Simon says.
Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and
then she/he is going to say the word she/he
want to children learn. For example: “Simon
says point the finger to the happy face” and
children have to put the finger in the picture
of mother. To do this game, we are going to
do 3 groups, and every group is going to
have one picture.

Mimic
In this time, the game will be more complicate. One of the class is going to tell to the
ear a feeling to the other of the class. And he or she is going to change their face in
order to the classmates guess the feeling using sentences like “You are bored”.

Run-run
There are pictures around the class about words that we learned this week. In this
exercise the teacher will say one sentence whit one word that we learn, and children
have to run and touch the picture that correspond.

Sing a song
Before that finish the class with good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn
feelings.

Good-bye song

4. WEEK

This week will be the last of our project, so we will practice everything that we
have learned in the previous weeks. We will play to the same games and sing the same
songs, but now with all words and sentences together. We will put in practice the
contents of each topic: places, members of family and feelings; and we will relate
words of ones topics to others by games and songs.
For this week, our main objective will be that children know answer to these
three questions:
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Where did you go at the weekend?
With whom?
How did you feel?

1.class:
Hello song.
Fishing
We will play “fishing” like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with cards
which pictures will be all the topics, that is to say, with places, family members and
feelings. The children will have to raise the cards and say what place, what members of
the family and what feelings appear in each of them.
For example, in one card will appear grandma and grandpa at house very smiling, so
the child who has raised the card, it will have to say: “Grandma and grandpa are in a
house and they are happy”.
Simon says
We will play “Simon says” like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with all
the topics. There will be places and members of family pictures around the class
(playground, mountain, house, supermarket, fathers, mother, brother, sister,
grandparents) and also, now Simon can says: “feel scared!” so, they will have to put
scary face.
Sing a songs
We will sing all the songs that we have learn in the previous weeks. First, “family
fingers”, and then, “felling song”. At this way, we will remember the key words that we
learn at each week, to be able to practice during this week.
Run-run
There are pictures around the class about words that we learned in previous weeks. In
this exercise the teacher will say one sentence whit one word that we learn, and
children have to run and touch the picture that correspond. For example:
Teacher: “I am in… the supermarket!”, so the children have to run very fast and
supermarket´s picture.
Teacher: “I am… scared!!” and the children will run to touch that picture.
“Good bye” song.
Too finally, we are going to sing good bye song.

2. class:

Hello song
Story
We will tell a story in where will appear the contents that we have see previously. At
this way, children could relate places with members of family and with feelings, so we
will have to remark that’s words. Also, the pictures which we will show, they will be
very important to learn words, to relate theirs with images and to understand the
story.

Little Lily
Lily is a little and funny girl. She has many friends and she likes play with
them at the playground. Also, she has a dad, mum and little brother and she loves
make a chocolate cakes whit them. She is very happy…
But sometimes, she has to go to the school. And she hates it! She feels very
bored at school, so she don´t like it.
One day, Llily didn´t go to the school, so she said to her mum that she feel hill…
- Oooh.. -sais Lily´s mum- you can´t go to the school! You must to be at home, Lily.
At first she felt very-very happy to stay at home, but when she´s parents go out,
she felt very bored. Suddenly she listened some noises and she felt very scared. Lily
was alone and she didn´t like it. When Lily´s mum and dad came back home, she
said:
- Mum! Dad! Don´t let me alone never! I like school and I go there every days!
THE END

Questions about story
After we have told the story, we will do questions about it, like for example: “Where
she has gone?”, “With whom?”, “How has she felt?”. Children will have to answer
these questions. If they answer with one word (school, house, playground) we will say
all the sentence correctly: “She goes to the playground, she goes with her friends and
she feels very happy “. We well say that slowly and remarking all the words, then, we
will ask him to repeat with us, and we will help them:
- How has she felt?
- Happy!
- Yes! Very well: she feels very happy! Come on, repeat with me: she feels very happy!

- She feels very happy! - all together
- Very well!! Congratulations!
Finding couple
We will play this game like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with cards
which pictures will be all the topics. The cards will be pictures of places (mountain,
house, playground, supermarket), members of family (father, mother, brother, sister,
grandparents, friends) or feels (happy, sad, bored, scared). The children will have to
raise the cards one by one to find the same card, while they say what they see in the
picture.
Run-run
We will play run-run game at the same way that we played the last day, but now, one
child have to say the sentence rather than the teacher, and the rest of the class have
to run and touch. At this way, they practice how to say the sentences that we want to
learn.
3.class:

“Hello hello” song.
Questions: In this activity, we will do questions to all children to make a practical
dialog. We will do questions one by one and they have to answer as they know. For
example:
- Hello Antxon, how are you today?
- Fine.
- Yes? Fine? Ooh very well… you are fine today. I´m fine too. And you Ane, how are you
today?
- I´m fine.
- Ok, very well! You are fine too. And what you did yesterday Maddi?
- I went to the… eeh… with mum and dad…
- With mum and dad? Ooh.. very well, and where you went, Maddi? Where? To the
supermarket…
- No… To the playground.
- Very well Maddi, you went to the playground. Okey… And you, Mikel? Can you tell us
what you did the last weekend, do you remember it? Come on, we will help you…
- Last weekend, I went to the… to the mountain with my friends.
- Very-very well Mikel, and how did you feel?
- I feel very happy… and sad..

- Sad? Ooh… why Mikel? Why did you feel sad?
- My dad is not at the mountain..
- Oooh… you dad wasn´t in the mountain.. he doesn´t go whit you?
- No… he doesn´t go whit me… he was at home…he was bad…
- Ooh.. he was hill… okey Mikel very good.
-…
Run-run
We will play run-run game at the same way that we played the last day, but now, one
child have to say the sentence rather than the teacher, and the rest of the class have
to run and touch. At this way, they practice how to say the sentences that we want to
learn.

“What I have in the coconut?” To play this game we will need different cards with
pictures of places, members of family and feelings, like which we have used previously
at memory play, but now all topics together, at the same card, for example: friends at
home bored.
Every child will have one card in the forehead, but they couldn´t see the own one, only
the others cards. So, they have to know what they have in the forehead doing
questions to the others, for example:
- (friends at home bored) I´m in the mountain? - asks Jon.
- NO - answer the rest together.
- I´m in the house?
- YES!
- Mmm… I´m in the house with mum and dad?
- NO..
At this way the children will have to think what they could have in forehead, and they
will has remembered all they learned during this 4 weeks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHWc6-xuE4&list=PL3DA9901271462FC8

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