• Parents can focus on their child, spending some one-to-one time with them.
• Parents can fit English sessions into any part of their day to suit their child and themselves.
• Parents can regulate the length of an English session and select activities to fit their child’s needs, interests and ability to concentrate.
• Parents know their child intimately and can intuitively judge the type of English talking suitable for their individual ways of picking up language.
• Parents can best interpret their child’s moods and respond to them. Children have days when they eagerly absorb language and others when they find it difficult to concentrate.
• Parents can introduce more fun, as they are working with an individual, not a class.
• Parents can introduce English culture into family life, so broadening their child’s outlook and understanding of their own culture as well as things English.

This is a part of booklet commissioned by the British Council to support parents.

Written by Opal Dunn, Author and Educational Consultant from the UK

© British Council 2008

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