My Bathroom-Real Objects

Using 'Realia'

Learning Vocabulary

Students of 7 years old, at my classroom, sometimes are getting frustrated when they learn English. Yesterday, my students learnt vocabulary about things in the bathroom. Teacher used 'realia' or real objects of things in the bathroom, such as:

toothbrush (sikat gigi), 

toothpaste (pasta gigi), 

soap (sabun mandi), 

shampoo (sampo), 

dipper (gayung), 

detergent (sabun cuci),

bucket (timba/ember) and so forth. 

Students repeated all the things, how to pronounce and spell them. They practiced speaking and writing. From this activity, it can be inferred that using the real objects helps much my students to understand more about English. The most important thing is that not how many vocabularies we give to the students, but how far the English words can be acquired by them.