English exercise book for beginners. Learning to read in English using an interactive notebook. How do they differ from ordinary notebooks

We often ask this question to people studying English with us. Why do we recommend keeping a workbook or dictionary as you like, rather than relying entirely on listening comprehension? Because if you write down new words or grammar rules - are you working on the language and? accordingly, you have every chance of achieving success. There are several reasons why we strongly advise you to start a thick notebook, which, as you study, will become an indispensable and faithful assistant, preserve the material and remind you of what you have already learned.

First, let's remember that the workbook in English is - notebook , and a laptop is a computer we are used to working at, is called in English laptop .

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1. If your workbook is always at hand, you can immediately write down a new word or phrase that you hear on TV or from other people. In order to truly memorize new vocabulary with high quality, you need to constantly repeat it, and if it is before your eyes in your notebook, you will see it every day or even several times a day and, as a result, remember it for a long time. Each of us has many problems, and the information that we perceive by ear, as a rule, quickly evaporates, leaving us no knowledge and, accordingly, a chance to learn the language properly.

2. Never write down English material in another notebook, where, in addition to English words, there are also recipes for cooking dishes or phone numbers of friends. If you need to write something down quickly, and you have to leaf through a notebook for a long time in search of English material among other information, you can ignore the teacher's explanation, lose valuable time in the lesson and cannot quickly focus on the material being explained.

3. Never sculpt notes in a notebook on top of each other - interesting phrases quickly catch your eye if written on separate pages or at a considerable distance from each other, so that there is room for possible further additions on the topic - so all your notes will be in one place and at the same time they will not interfere with each other. Many people use markers, colored pens or pencils. For example, to mark grammatical material, red would work, and new words could be circled in green as you like. Marking also helps you find what you are looking for faster by visually marking only the color you want.

4. Reflect on what you have already learned. Revisit words and phrases over and over again to help yourself understand and remember them. Having a notebook at hand, you can look through it on the bus, metro, trying to form sentences with this vocabulary or grammar in your mind - such exercises for the brain will help not only to learn the material firmly, but also to start thinking in English, quickly switch from one language on the other, in a word, to reach a higher level.

5. Why do we recommend writing each topic on a separate page, leaving a lot of white space around? Because over time, you will add synonyms, appropriate prepositions, examples, and a whole topic can turn out from one phrase. Agree that it will be impossible if you mold words on top of each other.

Do you have a workbook? Choose a thicker notebook to accommodate all your knowledge.

The workbook is the second part of the educational complex “English. Intensive course for beginners. " It contains lexical and grammatical exercises based on the material of the Book for the student, as well as exercises on the formulas of speech etiquette. Each part of the Workbook contains a grammar commentary to help the student complete the exercises.
The lexical addition to the Workbook serves to expand the basic vocabulary of the student, and all new lexical units in relation to the Book for the student are translated into Russian.
The exercises are recommended for home independent work and are provided with key-answers, but can also be performed in a class with a teacher.

Examples.
When Ethel arrived, Dave asked her a lot of questions. Can you restore his questions putting the correct question words?
When Ethel arrived, Dave asked her many questions. Can you reconstruct his questions by putting the correct question words?

What? When? Where? How? Who? Whose? How many? How much? Why?
1.is your name?
2.are you from?
3. old are you?
4.bag is it? - It's mine.
5.are you? - I "m fine, thanks,
6.languages \u200b\u200bdo you speak? - Two.
7.is your job?
8.are you late?
9.city are you from?
10. are you going to visit Scotland?
11.is that woman over there?

Free download the e-book in a convenient format, watch and read:
Download the book English, Intensive course for beginners, Workbook, Book 2, Latysheva TS, 2000 - fileskachat.com, fast and free download.

English, Grade 4, Workbook, Vereshchagina I.N., Afanasyeva O.V., 2019

The following tutorials and books:

Forgot English, Let's start over, Konovalenko Zh.F., 2009 - The manual is intended for a wide range of readers, but it will be especially useful for those who have already started to learn English. The basis ... English books
Practical English for law students, I.P. Aghabekyan, 2003 - A manual for law students at the first and second stages of training corresponds to the English language program for humanitarian non-language faculties of higher education ... English books
Time Alignment in English, Oliva Morales T.M., 2017 - This tutorial discusses in detail the alignment of times in English using examples and exercises for translating from Russian ... English books
How to learn English, Nim S., 2018 - You are not holding another English textbook or a collection of dry exercises. This is the first detailed guide available ... English books

Hello dear colleagues and readers of my blog!

This creative direction in teaching English did not pass by me either. It may have been there before, just not so common.

In general, I also decided to deal with this issue. At first I tried to find any information on how to keep interactive notebooks on my own. Basically, I came across not that or very poor information. And I am such a person - I need to directly study the issue thoroughly, then to be a confident user of this system (Interactive Notebooks).

First meeting

And so, as usual, I stumbled upon a group in contact with one girl Anastasia Rykova Super Family English , studied it and got stuck, somehow did not dare to delve into this topic (sometimes there is such a feeling of insecurity in front of something new)

Then I watched Anastasia's video, how she teaches her daughter, what materials she uses for her students, and I fired up ... Besides, this year I have only junior students. In general, I decided to diversify my already boring life.

What are interactive notebooks?

Interactive notebooks are notebooks that include interactive elements such as pockets with cards, various books with windows, accordion books, some kind of sliding elements, pictures, and so on.

Such notebooks turn out to be very interesting, beautiful and individual, as children can express themselves in this way.

How are they different from ordinary notebooks?

Usually I and the kids started a 48-sheet notebook and we wrote, drew and glued in it. But then I decided that it would be better to have two notebooks: one notebook would be interactive (there we will stick different grammar rules and lexical topics, more creative), and in the other written exercises and some tasks (more official).

Interactive elements in notebooks help to save space in regular notebooks, thereby accommodating more information.
Children learn to organize and systematize information, this must also be taught, so that it would be easier for them later in life.
The grammatical theory is visualized and this makes it easier to understand the material. In addition, motor skills are also involved (the elements are constantly being touched, moving, pulled out)

Children show their individuality and imagination. They are involved in the process, their creativity develops.
A constant interest in notebooks is maintained, the motivation for learning English increases.
Interactive notebooks stimulate constant review and repetition.

Interactive backpack from the theme "School and school supplies" (from Arina's notebook)

It is obvious that interactive notebooks have huge advantages over regular notebooks. And where was this information before, when I was working at school? Children now would love to keep notebooks and not forget them at home.

But nothing! I have plenty of time to catch up. Now I actively use such interactive notebooks with my individual students from grades 1 to 5. I will tell you how I use them and what elements I use in my work.

Interactive elements in exercise books by example

UMK Shishkova "English for junior schoolchildren"

I decided to apply my knowledge in private tutoring on the example of my beloved UMK Shishkova "English for younger students". Who has not read the review on it yet, then get acquainted. Oddly enough, he caused a huge response on my blog, which, of course, I was surprised and glad.

So, what I came up with and how I organized everything?

My kids, who have already begun to study this course with me, have ordinary thick notebooks, into which we paste various interactive elements on grammatical topics. There are plans to also use lexical elements and laptop computers, but more on that later.

Below is a list of topics that are found in Shishkova's educational complex. I wrote them out, indicating the numbers of the lessons, where it was possible to do it.

Then I already planned the themes themselves, or rather selected different elements and templates for notebooks. Here are sample templates that you can download for free and use in your class. These are templates "Chamomile" (for pronouns, for example) and a Book with flaps (numbers from 1 to 10).

These topics are the most common and can fit any of your teaching materials.

Cardinal Numbers (1 to 10) - Lesson 22
Ordinal numbers (from 1 to 10)
Articles a / an, the - Lesson 9

Plural Nouns - Lesson 4

If you want to learn how to make such a book with windows, I suggest watching Anastasia's master class on video.

Pronouns - Lesson 4.5

Colors
Have got - Lesson 16,18,19

To be - Lesson 6,12,13,15,23

Can - Lesson 8,21,22

Present Simple - Lesson 7,10,24
Present Contiunious -Lesson 28

This / That - Lesson 9
These / Those - Lesson 25
Prepositions - Lesson 15

There is ... There are ... - Lesson 27
Question words

And now I suggest you look into the notebooks of my students and see everything with your own eyes how interactive elements work.

I must say right away that I did not reinvent the wheel! I myself would have had neither the strength nor the time (two children require my increased attention) to look for all the information on interactive notebooks, so everything that I know and can do is thanks to the training of Anastasia Rykova.

A few words about the training "Interactive techniques in notebooks"

I do not regret in the least that I passed it. I acquired the three-day training already in the recording, as it is convenient for me to listen and work in the deep evening, when everyone has already fallen asleep. The recording of the training itself lasts about 13 hours. So far I have mastered only the module "Interactive notebooks", since there is a lot of information, it is well organized and should fit in my head.

In addition, I started to practice and apply already on my students. And I see that it was not in vain that I started all this. No one has ever studied with me with such pleasure. Children constantly touch the elements and remember the information on them very well. Parents are also happy that their children enjoy learning English grammar. For you, all this is also very beneficial, since you differ from other tutors in this.

Who is interested in where you can find information about this, I leave a link so that you can familiarize yourself with the training Interactive notebooks

By the way, whoever has more time and is also interested in a similar topic, for more inspiration, I recommend the famous Pinterest (Pinterest) - a kind of social Internet service or photo hosting, where online users can add different inspirational and motivational images, place them in thematic collections and share with others.

I learned about this service relatively recently and it absorbs you so much ... that's really, who has a tight imagination or creativity has subsided, run to pinterest! Enter the desired topic and a huge number of motivating pictures will come out to help you. For example, on our topic, you can enter Interactive English Notebook.

P.S. To introduce interactive notebooks, you need not only white and colored paper, scissors and pencils, but also an interesting element for attaching rotating elements - brads. I bought them very cheaply on aliexpress.

Colleagues, do you use the method of interactive notebooks in your practice? If so, please share a photo of your students' notebooks in the comments. It will be interesting for me and my readers.

41 Comments

Thank you so much for this post! You just inspired me!

Leah, very interesting !!! Thanks for the detailed review of the technique. I also used some things with my student. Just at Anastasia I saw a palm with questioning words, which is also convenient and interesting. Please tell me which textbook you followed with six-year-old children.

Leah, thank you so much.

I am very grateful for this post. Immediately, all this caught fire to apply for teaching younger students - first graders who will just start preparing for school in the summer.

Awesome! Thanks a lot for this article. I often come across these interesting things on the Internet, but I'm afraid to use them, because I don't know how. But now I'm not so scared)) Although the school year ends, before the next one you can collect material and digest the information)

Thank you for the article! Interesting and informative! This is the first time I got acquainted with the term "interactive notebooks", although I invented some elements for my students! Thanks for the ideas, we will go deeper and study further!

Leah, thanks for the interesting article! I was very interested and inspired !!! We will implement it in practice !!!

Leah, thank you very much! As I understand it, we got together with the idea of \u200b\u200binteractive notebooks after the course of Katerina Stashevskaya. Together they came up with the idea for Present Continuous. But you have already gone ahead far from me, young fellow! I am missing something, or perseverance, or time. You inspire me to great deeds. Keep it up. I am sending your article to my group.

But about A. Rykova's intensive, something I doubted. I watched her one webinar. And the material

was good, but somehow hard to watch.

Leah, thank you very much for your article! I'm very interested in the technical side of working with laptops. How do you prepare it: do you cut everything yourself or give it to the students? After all, registration takes a lot of time. And if everything is given in advance at home, will the child's interest be lost?

I can also give you a link to the blog of one enthusiastic mother for working with laptops, where there are examples of lapbooks http://www.tavika.ru/p/blog-page_5.html

Leah, thank you very much for the next article. I read it with interest, but, unlike the rest of your readers, I do not share the enthusiasm :) Children themselves will not make these notebooks, they need to use them, but it is time consuming and for me in terms of the ratio - time is a real benefit - they are not very good. I think - well, they made these notebooks, what's next with them? Why are they needed at all? So these notebooks will lie, children will sometimes look through, at best brag about who is more beautiful, but so ... In general, I was not inspired. It is better to devote this time to work on umk. I will say even more - I would be even less inspired if my child, while studying with a tutor, spent his time on the design of this notebook, as if it were a labor / drawing lesson.

Very interesting! Thank you for such helpful information. I really like to work with kids, besides Shishkova, I also use Bonk "English for Kids", and I especially like Meshcheryakova's help "I can sing", you know about that? If not, get acquainted, songs and pictures, in my opinion, are a great help to study the material. And I also have such a question ... Do you think you can use such interactive exercise books for adult children? Often there are children who began to learn the language with other teachers, no motivation, and the age is already 12-13 years old, it is very difficult to bring them to the level of "love" to English. Thank you!

Leah, hello!

Please write an article about yourself, how was your year, how many students were there, did you manage to devote time to your family, how did you work with your kids, how you spend your summer, relax or work, will you go to work at the lyceum, of course, if it is not too personal information. You are my motivator! Smart, kind, beautiful! Write more often! Thank you!

Thank you very much for such a detailed review. Very inspiring. And most importantly, very effective techniques - I tried several topics. Children are delighted!

Leah, thanks for this article, as well as for all the others. I read and implement your ideas regularly in the practice of a teacher and tutor. Your site is one of the few that I come back to all the time for inspiration. Interactive notebooks are a miracle! There is only one minus, it takes a lot of time in school, I attract the parents of the students, I do the simplest elements. I wish you and your family all the best! Thanks a lot for the blog!

Hello! Please explain the difference between an interactive notebook and a lepbook. A notebook is a notebook, and a lepbook is like a wall newspaper?

What do you think is important when learning foreign languages? “Motivation, a good teacher and free time,” you say. Others will answer: "The main thing is an effective methodology and the best teaching aids!" But has it occurred to you that the organization of teaching materials is also important? If not, then this article is for you.

Since school, we are used to keeping a notebook-dictionary for writing down foreign words, a notebook for grammar, a workbook, a notebook for homework, etc. This whole stack consists of irreplaceable and essential elements that are essential for the educational process. However, you must admit that it is not very convenient to always carry a collection of notebooks with you. Forgetting one of them, you will be left without materials that can be useful in the learning process.

Our advice is to change your habits. Start instead of a common notebook "Ring blinder" (folder on rings), which will become an assistant in the study of foreign languages.

Folder benefits"Ring blinder". How to improve the efficiency of your classes?

1) Classify information.

Having this notebook means categorizing the material with which you familiarized yourself in the lesson. There is no need to write down information linearly: the notebook has rings on which you can attach not only sheets of the format you need, but also dividers. So, you can create several sections: "grammar", "new words", "written work", etc. Thanks to the bright dividers, you can easily find the section you need, and when you move to another level of study, some sections can be replaced (for example, "practice" or "written work"), and the section with grammar can be left: this way you can use the material for years. who are used to working.

2) Do not spare blank sheets.

Continuing the conversation about the categorization of educational material, I would like to pay attention to the recordings themselves. Remember the rule: new topic - new page. For example, if you are learning verbs in English, you should write down each topic separately (for example, "tenses", "passive", etc.). Such a system will allow you to supplement the material as you study it.

3) Write down grammar rules.

Choose what is most convenient for you: a table, a diagram, or a linear rule record. It is best to write each grammar rule yourself. First, this is how you memorize the material. Secondly, if you forget something, it is much faster to recall handwritten material than a rule from a new textbook or the Internet.

4) Add colors.

Use colored pens and markers to help categorize the material. For example, highlight the topic in red, the basic rule in green, and examples in blue.

5) Always be prepared.

It does not matter whether you are a student, schoolchild or classes in educational institutions are in the past for you - learning a foreign language often takes place outside the home (with a tutor, in a language center, etc.). Therefore, it is important to have all the materials in one place so that you can grab the folder and go to the lesson.

For a folder like “ ring binder " you can purchase a pencil case, a ruler, a mini hole punch, files, stickers, etc., which can be attached to the rings of the folder itself. This means that all study materials and tools will be collected in one place, and you will never forget your pen, pencil or your homework.

We hope you find our tips for organizing your learning materials helpful.

What is your foreign language learning notebook?

Today, with great pleasure, I will continue to share with you my ideas for using interactive exercise books in teaching English. In my previous articles, I described what interactive notebooks are and the practice of using them in school. I mainly focused on the grammatical side of their use. But now I want to talk about how to teach reading using an interactive notebook.

It so happened that this summer a child came to me who finished the second grade and cannot read English at all. At the same time, the grade for the year is 4. Interesting objectivity of the teacher 🙄

This year I planned to recruit a group of second graders with reading problems. But the response to my announcements was negligible and summer, as you know, is a time of rest (maybe something will work out in August, but there will be little time left). Learning to read is not 4 or 6 meeting sessions.

Unfortunately, my favorite tutoring has become, in view of my work employment, receding into the background. I’m afraid that when I go to work, I’ll have to completely forget about him and, to be honest, I feel sad at the thought. In the meantime, summer, then you can create and develop over what we have.

So, back to our second grader. The case was not easy. Here the form of group lessons would not fit, but only the only option - individual ones. The reason for everything: the psychological characteristics of the child. You need to work with such children using completely different forms of activity. But there are methods. Who seeks will always find.

I decided to attach the use of an interactive notebook to our classes, which I successfully used in one group of second grades. The child turned out to be executive and carried all the accessories with him as expected. The idea of \u200b\u200ban interactive exercise book aroused keen interest. Here's our complete set:

The presence of a folder is the first requirement that I put forward if they intend to visit me seriously. Children keep handouts and reference materials in it. In this case, we have attached recipes with letters of the alphabet, pages with drills, extra worksheets from the Macmillan manual, as well as some copies from the textbook "Reading Simulator" by E. Rusinova. We have accumulated decent materials.

In addition, I have to refer to Biboletova's textbook and make copies of some of the texts. it is on him that the child will have to learn further and moving away from him is also not an option at all. Plus, I've added the use of my vocabulary booklet, which can get is free any, subscribed to my blog.

Interactive notebook

Now I present to your review our interactive notebook.

It looks like an ordinary notebook, but with secrets 🙂 I decided to teach reading with the help of phonics. Pre-memorized the alphabet and sounds (although there are gaps in memorizing letters, each lesson requires repetition).

Now let's see what's inside:
How it works? The main phonics is here at. We add a consonant and read the word, and in addition, we see the picture hiding behind this word. The following options are:

Now let's look at the video:

The most important thing is your imagination and your child. We use all kinds of daisies, accordions, stars and the object is ready 😉

Thanks to this method, I noticed one important fact - memorization of vocabulary goes with a bang! And on top of that, fine motor skills and visual memory are included in the process.

In each lesson, we add one or two elements to a notebook, and at home the child needs to finish the work (find pictures, glue them or draw).

I hope you like my idea. In the near future I am going to hold a webinar on this topic and I will be glad to see you, dear readers, as spectators and listeners. But more on that later 😉