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What's your favourite colour?

Target English: Colours / Colors
Target grade: All ages 1
Song: The "What's your favourite colour?" Song can be found in the Teacher's Set
And in the new curriculum Level.

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!




And here you can see the song in action with Virginie's kids!


Recommended Games:

1. The kids all shout out �gWhat�fs your favourite colour?�h
2. The teacher answers with one of the colours.
3. The kids have to race and touch something that is this colour.

If the kids have school uniforms with not many colours, put small pieces brightly coloured paper on the walls of the classroom. The more running, the more fun!

Here are our kids in India enjoying the game!



Or other games you can try are:
Monster Drawing Game - I like pink fish game

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