I need your help.I am going to teach the verb to be for my young learners. According to our  cirruculum for 4th graders  ,I īve taught some topics such as greetings,  classrooom objects, classroom commands,the names of family members  so far , and i have to teach the verb to be and  do you know the most effective teaching ways and funny games or songs about this subject (am is are)? My learners love songs and games so much so i must teach this subjects in this way .

 

Thanks in advance

 

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Each lesson We sing this (Like a wormingi-up before lesson starts)

I-am

You-are

He is

She is

It is

We are

They are -

using our Russiann well-known from childhood NewYear Tune.

Use any TUNE (even without audio -support) your students know from childhood ( or whatever) and sing this Short song

 

I give my class pictures of simple adjectives and have them ask their classmates a question according to the adjective in the picture.  Once they have learned the verb to be and adjectives together, we play a game with this.  Each person has a turn using the verb to be with their picture adjective and each student is asked in turn to remember what the others have said.  It is like a chain repetition.  I am tall, Richard is happy, Marc  is sad, Jane and Sue are  rich, Tom is poor etc. The person who is able to recite the most is the winner.