Continue from the last discussion of the few things to know when working with young learners:
3. Children's instinct for play and fun
I observe my own cousins that, when two or more of them getting together, they will surely engage in playing, either it will be chasing one another, or engage in a drama with each of them taking one role. Thus it is so true that being playful and engaging in fun is IN the children's nature. And teacher should adapt her teaching method to suit this characteristics of children.
4. The role of IMAGINATION
When watching children play sometimes, their surroundings seem to be out of reality: that off the bed is the fall of a waterfall; and the car handle becomes the house of the villain in their story; that by the changing of the shape of the watch the character becomes different in roles... all these are not even in the realm of my imagination but it comes out from the mouth of the children! Well it is amazing and teacher surely can make full use of this characteristic of children to engage them in stories that enable them to learn language through imagination.
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