Teaching English through picture to children
Characteristics of children are active, they like colourful picture. Some thing which has colourful is interesting to children. So we can teach English to children through picture. In the following I will explain briefly about how to teach English through picture to children.
Teaching English through picture
Pictures are often used by modern language teacher to help them teach English, Arabic, Indonesia, etc.
What is this?
it is a pencil.
What is this?
it is a pencil.
Picture can define into 3 types, they are:
- Simple drawings (picture made by own)
- Painting (painting made by an artists)
- Photos (photos made by a cameramen)
Picture are regarded to be effectively to help teacher present (teach) the teaching materials because picture can talk more. If you tell a camel by words, you will need long explanation by using a picture.
1. Simple drawing
1. Simple drawing
Simple drawing can made by own to teach. In English student’s book for junior high school (1975) simple drawing are used to explain vocabulary, verbs, tense, etc. I give you an example:
John is sitting
John is writing
2. Painting
Painting can be made by artists. Paintings are used to teach vocabulary, illustration story.
"Long times ago, there was a beautiful palace. The palace's name was peace palace. In the palace there lived 7 beautiful fairies. They like dancing. everyday they did danced."
This picture will make children interesting. we can teach about story with easier.
3. Photos
Photos can be made by cameramen. Photos can help a teacher to teach materials.
Example: when teacher want to teach about family, teacher can use a family photos to teach the students.
hello, I am jenny. I am 20 years old. I have a brother his name is Anton. He is my old brother. He is about 23 years old. My father name's is wijaya and my mother's name is Sri Purmana.