With this video you can work pronunciation, new vocabulary and cultural aspects with your students

The main starting points for teaching culture include:

Songs and rhymes: These are useful for younger learners and allow them to compare these English rhymes with their own. Teach some English rhymes, then ask pupils to teach you some of the ones they use.

Drawings: If you can make contact with another teacher abroad or have an English-speaking friend with pupils, you can ask them to make large drawings of some very simple things, but which tend to be strongly influenced by culture. Just asking a French, German and an English person to draw bread or a favourite meal (labelled) may show up many similarities and differences.

Artefacts: You may be lucky enough to have an example of the latest toy or board game which is popular in English-speaking countries. If you have one of these you can show it to the class, describe it and see if anyone else has one. All kinds of artefacts can be used.

Stories: They are a very appropriate way to introduce culture. Besides this, authentic storybooks can be very motivating for a student as they experience a strong sense of achievement at having worked with a "real" book.

Making contact with real people: Pupils can be encouraged to carry out a range of activities, such as interviewing any native speakers available, writing requests for information, asking native speakers to provide written information, making class links with target language speakers by letter, internet, or e-mail.

Projects or topics: Many of the topic-based magazines available from certain publishers make this task much easier. There is also a small but growing number of "stand-alone" videos which describe life in English-speaking countries. Topics such as typical school day, festivals, sporting personalities, pop stars, heroes, film celebrities can also be studied in the same way through whatever themes and areas of interest happen to be the subject of study.

WHAT THIS BLOG IS ABOUT

Thanks to e-mail and the internet, pop music, films, books, satellite and cable TV, many young learners can experience the real value of English in their daily lives. This brings us to the notion of authenticity and to the development of a positive attitude towards foreign countries and their culture.
This blog is about the starting points for teaching culture, and all that is related with the English culture. I hope you enjoy using this blog as much as I am enjoying writing it. Kind regards