The use of nursery rhymes learnt by heart is a very good technique
for second language teaching at an early age for several reasons. The main one
is that young children enjoy them, and therefore learn them easily. Another one
is that as long as you are learning them by means of reciting them many times,
not reading them, the students will learn the pronunciation of the rhyme before
being contaminated by its spelling.
This is a classic
ring-around-the-rosey game for children in the UK and America (though
there are versions in other languages such as German). It seems to me
to be a good activity to start a session with small children as it
involves movement and that is very good in the early morning.
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