Children learn their own languages from nursery rhymes and songs as well as simple sentences and easy one syllable words from parents.
You can use these if you ara teaching English as a Foreign Language when travelling overseas or online.
In English we have Ten Green Bottles:
Ten Green Bottles
As a reminder, the words start:
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall (repeat)
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall
There'd be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.
(The numbers go down, eight, seven, six, five, four, three,
two,
one ..)
The last verse ends, not with one, but
If one green bottle should accidentally fall
There'd be no green bottles hanging on the wall.
.......................................
A surprise ending.
This song teaches you:
1 Vocabulary - Noun/adjective. The numbers one to ten.
2 Vocabulary - The Colour green.
3 The positioning of advjectives before the noun, green bottles (unlike French where moulin rouge is red windmill)
4 Vocabulary - Nouns: bottle and wall
5 Vocabulary - verbs: fall and hang.
6 The tenses a) present contnuous hanging
b) if ... should
7 c) the adverb ending ly on accidentally.
If you were teaching English, or learning English, you could show a picture of a green bottle. You could change the colour each day of the week. Start with one syllable colours to match the rhythm of the song:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown. black, white, grey.
For a comprehension test you could add the two syllable colours:
Were the bottles
orange?
yellow?
purple?
green?
Useful Websites
Useful websites For Song Titles
https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-About-the-Sun-and-Sunshine
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am Immediate Past President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting on Zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the third Saturday afternoon and occasionally on other Wednesdays our workshops are on app learncool.sg
Incoming president Faith from July 1st 2020 could change dates and platforms so please contact the club.
learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:
tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
For language lovers:Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_place_names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_Australian_place_names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_New_Zealand_place_names
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
You can use these if you ara teaching English as a Foreign Language when travelling overseas or online.
In English we have Ten Green Bottles:
Ten Green Bottles
As a reminder, the words start:
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall (repeat)
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall
There'd be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.
(The numbers go down, eight, seven, six, five, four, three,
two,
one ..)
The last verse ends, not with one, but
If one green bottle should accidentally fall
There'd be no green bottles hanging on the wall.
.......................................
A surprise ending.
This song teaches you:
1 Vocabulary - Noun/adjective. The numbers one to ten.
2 Vocabulary - The Colour green.
3 The positioning of advjectives before the noun, green bottles (unlike French where moulin rouge is red windmill)
4 Vocabulary - Nouns: bottle and wall
5 Vocabulary - verbs: fall and hang.
6 The tenses a) present contnuous hanging
b) if ... should
7 c) the adverb ending ly on accidentally.
If you were teaching English, or learning English, you could show a picture of a green bottle. You could change the colour each day of the week. Start with one syllable colours to match the rhythm of the song:
Red, pink, green, blue, brown. black, white, grey.
For a comprehension test you could add the two syllable colours:
Were the bottles
orange?
yellow?
purple?
green?
Useful Websites
Useful websites For Song Titles
https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-About-the-Sun-and-Sunshine
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am Immediate Past President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting on Zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the third Saturday afternoon and occasionally on other Wednesdays our workshops are on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:
For language lovers:Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
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