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What's your favourite colour?

Target English: Colours / Colors
Target grade: Kindergarten to Junior High school 1
Song: The "What's your favourite colour?" Song can be found on CD/CDROM vol. II
Pronunciation Guide/Interactive Quiz: can be found on CDROM vol. II

Colours are really easy to teach to kids, they love anything bright and colourful!

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In the classroom or at home ........



When you sing the song, the teacher says the colour first, then the kids repeat and also point at something that is that colour! This way they are thinking about the colour at the same time as saying and seeing it!

Again, any of the vocab games on the site can be used for teaching colours!

If you are in Japan, you'll probably find that all schools have sets of "origami" paper sheets that contain all the colours used in the song - including gold, silver and bronze. Using the Olympics as a theme makes teaching these last few easier!!

I usually teach colours quite early on, so it can be tricky for the kids to do the "What's your favourite?" part. In that case, it's easy to sing that part yourself, hold up a colour, sing the colour once and the kids repeat it! You could also use the song as a way of introducing the idea of "favourite". The kids will probably be familiar with colours at that stage, so they can fully concentrate on the new sentence!



Recommended Games:
Monster Drawing Game - I like pink fish game

�@On the CD....

Again, there is the full version, the karaoke version and the CD software! In the vocab practice part, Aygo gets some groovy new hair colourings!! The game featured on this song is a little different from (and a lot simpler than) the others, and you can check it out here. The crazy thing is that as this game never ends, younger kids will just stay on it for hours and hours, long after any adults have got bored, so if you're using it in a classroom, make sure you set a time limit! You can also play this game from the "page for kids" option on the main menu at www.GenkiEnglish.com - great for homework!



The "What's your favourite colour?" song can be found on CD vol. II !

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