Why teach action exercises?

Action exercises help students learn by doing and by talking about actions they see in the teacher presentation book.

Reasons for why we teach action exercises:

• The teacher demonstrates language concepts like ‘touch’, ‘point’, ‘on’ and ‘over’.
• Action exercises are fun and give students practise that they enjoy.
• Action exercises teach concepts that students use in everyday activities such as work, with pronouns like ‘I’ and ‘you’.
• Action exercises give the teacher immediate feedback. If the students do not understand the instructions for how to do an action, they can see their problem right away.
• Actions allow for language concepts and words to be practised until they become easy.
• Action exercises give students the basis for learning more difficult language skills such as verb tenses, like ‘is’, ‘was’ and ‘will’.