各位家長 點睇小朋友吾識英語而讀IS （K1）？

tamm

原帖由 Doublepig 於 10-6-25 01:16 發表
ESF TY 收了我女讀K1， 但我女不太懂英語， 只懂很間單對答， 我有些擔心她開學 後會好辛苦。

She should be okay.  Kids pick up language very quickly.  However, it will be good to let her go to English play group in the summer so that she can get used to the English enviroment.

tamm

It will depend on your English level.
For little kids, English grammar and pronunciation do not have to be perfect.
Even for native kids, theirs may not be perfect at this age.
Usually, it will be more of the use of words.
If one wants to say “Can you turn on the TV?”
but he says “Can you open the TV?”
It will be a totally different thing.
For some Hong Kong people, they cannot tell the difference – I am not joking!
For local people, it is probably not difficult to figure out this person meant to say “turn on” not “open” after a while.
But for Gweilo, it will be very difficult to figure out what this person is trying to say.


Some people complain that they speak only English to their kids but the kids still cannot pass the interview.
I think it is because the teacher cannot really understand what the kid is trying to say.

Before my girl goes to kinder, I only speak Cantonese with her at home.
She picks up the English from school.
But I spent a lot of time reading with her.
I found the Oxford Ready Tree books very useful.
You can start from the basic one – stage 1. Repeat the same book for a number of times.
From reading, the kid will gradually memorize the sentences.
They can also gradually pick up the proper way to say English.

tamm

The Oxford Reading Tree books are available from the public libraries.

tamm

Hope your kid will enjoy her school life.  A good IS kinder should provide the necessary environment to train up the English language.