How to train children to listen to songs and learn English?

Childhood is the golden age of second language learning. At this critical stage, classic English songs play a very important role in children's English learning.

1. English ballads can cultivate children's interest in English.

Tolstoy once said: "Successful teaching is not mandatory, but arouses students' interest. "English songs are catchy, cheerful and easy to remember, and children like to sing. English ballads have always been loved by children because of their cheerful, jumping and easy-to-remember melodies. Children rap and dance in beautiful children's songs, and unconsciously learn English that is a headache for adults in a cheerful atmosphere. This is the power of interest.

2. English songs can cultivate children's sense of English language.

English language sense is people's ability to feel the English language, which is an indescribable but true language sense. When people communicate in English, they blurt out what they want to express without thinking, and sometimes they think that correct English looks pleasing to the eye, sounds pleasing to the ear and is easy to say. From the first feeling, they can tell which English is authentic, which is not authentic or even incorrect, which is actually the sense of language at work. English language sense plays an important role in English teaching and application, which directly affects students' interest in learning English and their success or failure. Just as musicians should have a good sense of music, they should also have a good sense of English language in order to learn and use English well. A good sense of English language needs to be cultivated from an early age. If you miss this critical period of your child, it will be even more difficult to cultivate a sense of language.

English ballads can improve children's oral ability and fundamentally solve the problem of "dumb English".

Children's language learning ability is beyond the reach of adults. English ballads can help children learn to speak a lot of English unconsciously, which will greatly improve their oral English ability, enhance their self-confidence and dare to express themselves in English, thus fundamentally solving the problem of "dumb English".

How do we choose these English songs?

FLTRP is a publishing house focusing on English teaching. When choosing English ballads, we need to respect children's age characteristics, cognitive development characteristics and the basic rules of English learning.

1. tunnel.

We need to choose authentic classic English songs that are widely circulated in English-speaking countries for our children. Such English songs can expose children to authentic English.

2. Beautiful melody.

Beautiful melodies can give children beautiful enjoyment and make them feel comfortable, relaxed and happy. English ballads with beautiful melodies can stimulate children's interest in English to a limited extent.

3. Suitable for children in China.

Not all English songs from English-speaking countries are suitable for children in China. English-speaking countries have their own traditional culture and language characteristics, and many classic English songs in English-speaking countries often have strong traditional cultural colors and language expression habits that do not conform to grammatical norms. Although these English songs are classic, they are not suitable for China children to sing. Therefore, among many classic English ballads, we will select the English ballads that are most suitable for children in China to learn English and that children in China can understand for parents to download.

Bought me a cat.

Recommended reason:

This nursery rhyme is especially suitable for children under 3 years old. Although there are many paragraphs in the whole nursery rhyme, the language of each paragraph is repeated, so the amount of language is not large. There will be different animals making lovely calls in each paragraph, and the animals appearing in each paragraph will continue to appear in the next paragraph. The more jokes there are, the more small animals there are, and the more noises there will be. Coupled with the interesting music melody played repeatedly, the baby will laugh out loud. Babies like repetition. This repetitive ballad style is very suitable for babies to unconsciously remember the language and music melody in ballads in a cheerful atmosphere.

Old MacDonald has a farm.

Recommended reason:

Children like small animals, like to imitate their sounds, and also like to imitate their actions. Therefore, this popular nursery rhyme describing farm animals has become a must for English nursery rhymes. Its cheerful tunes depict a lively farm of chickens, ducks, cows and turkeys, creating a scene of all kinds of farm animals running happily, so that children can be there, as if the cries of all kinds of animals echoed in their ears.

The earliest appearance of this song can be traced back to 19 17 Tommy's Tune written by F.T.Nettleingham during World War I. The lyrics of the song "Ohio (Old McDougall has a farm)" are very similar to today's folk songs, but the farmers' names and chorus are different. With the spread of this song, many changes have taken place in the form of lyrics and chorus, among which the names and calls of various animals are different in different versions. But this relaxed and cheerful song will make every child and even adults feel happy after listening to it, and be deeply moved by the vivid cries of various small animals, so it has become one of the oldest classic nursery rhymes in the world.

Did you feed my cow?

Recommended reason:

This is a traditional American black slave ballad, which is often included in modern American classic ballads. This question-and-answer structure will make children actively participate and make it easy for them to learn English interrogative sentences. This dialogue form of rap nursery rhymes is similar to China's Allegro and Talibao, with only rhythm and no melody. This form is also very suitable for China children's English language training, to perceive English pronunciation, intonation, language composition and emotional color, and to enlighten English language sense.