Learning English is essential. In addition, exercising another language can encourage memory, imagination, and activate the brain. But the knowledge of a language must be gradual, starting with the elementary and moving towards the more complex. Here are some tips so that you can guide others to learn body parts in English, which can be a good starting point.
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Recognize the Words
Step 1. Make a list of words
The most common is that your student first does exercises of recognition and memorization of the words. Start by making a list of the visible parts of the body.
Keep it simple, go from top to bottom: head / head, shoulders / shoulders, arms / arms, back / back, hip / hip, legs / legs, knees / knees, feet / feet …
Step 2. Find visual aids
Depending on the age. The best thing is that you have your students associate the words with something that you can observe. For children, simple and friendly figures are recommended, for adults it can be photographs or diagrams of the human body.
- In these images write the name of the different parts of the body, it becomes easier to memorize them.
- You can even create an album with various body figures.
Step 3. Ask your students to look at themselves in the mirror
It helps them associate the words with their own body, repeating them in English and pointing to them in the mirror. Remember that there is no better way to practice language than associating it with yourself, with your environment.
Part 2 of 3: Educating the ear and tongue
Step 1. Get them used to the pronunciation
Some English learning books and manuals come with audio tracks to help you hear the pronunciation. If you do not have these books, some Internet sites, such as online translators, have audio tracks that indicate the correct pronunciation of the words.
Step 2. Show them theme songs
This also depends on age. There is material especially for children, such as "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." However, this material also helps beginner adults, you can start with these songs, which seem very simple, but they will help them to memorize the words, associate them with their body and listen to the pronunciation.
These songs are generally accompanied by a simple choreography, motivate them to dance and do the movements indicated by the song: move the head, shake the hip, touch your arms and touch your knees. The more associations your brain makes with words, pictures, and movements, the more natural language will flow
Step 3. Practice the pronunciation
Remember that none of this is useful if they do not practice how to say the words. The easiest thing is to repeat the words until it is clear to them. The next thing, and more advisable, would be that they include the words they learned in phrases of everyday situations, for this it is better that they exercise their language accompanied by you, have a conversation.
- You can start by posing an imaginary situation: My legs hurt (my legs hurt), for the other to answer you: That’s too bad! My legs are very healthy (that's too bad! My legs are very healthy) or something like that.
- This will not only help them practice their pronunciation, but also integrate the new language into everyday sentences and probable situations that can help them understand the language better.
Part 3 of 3: Play Games
Step 1. Organize board games
Not only is it fun, but it also tricks the brain into accepting information naturally, without making it seem boring or a waste of time. You can make a bingo with the parts of the body, cards or even puzzles.
- In some stationery stores or educational stores they sell this ready-made material, just ask for the games for the matter you are dealing with, in this case you can request games to learn the parts of the body in English.
- If you want to save that money, create your own teaching material. The simplest thing is to make a bingo; Cut out several cards on a cardboard and divide it into squares. In each box, put the names of the body parts. The person singing bingo can specifically point to a part of their body, for example the feet, and the person holding the card must find the word feet and mark it.
- Another popular game is to guess what is being drawn. You can make cards with specific words and scramble them. So you know that both the one who draws and the one who guesses must know the word. Oh, and it doesn't count if you don't pronounce it correctly.
Step 2. Make up your own games
Let your imagination fly and invent ways to learn while having fun.
Step 3. Turn to electronic games
On some internet sites you can find electronic games and applications that you can download to your cell phone or tablet to practice your English. For example, there are games where you have to reproduce the spelling of the word or there are others where you must arrange the words in the scheme of a human body, such as association of columns, or there are others where you only uncover a few points and you must guess from which image it is about. Anyway, if you know people who do not do crafts or participate in board games, this can be a very good option.
Step 4. Experiment with contact games
If you are in a group, and there is trust, you can play contact games, in which, for example, someone shouts shoulders and they have to touch the shoulders of the closest person or one can be the model and the other locate the parts of the body indicated. You can also do it with dolls or stuffed animals.
Remember that there are people who do not like to be touched or who are shy, if that is the case, respect their decision, do not force them, and resort to another type of game
Advice
- Determine a time to practice your vocabulary every day.
- Respect that schedule and don't take your finger off the practice line.
- Make sure that during the time allotted to the session is always practiced in English, that Spanish is not spoken until it is over.
- Don't let them despair. Learning a language is difficult, but with effort, work, and constant practice, you can get to grips with it quickly.