What are some ways to teach English to foreign kids?

Let them play with english speaking kids of their age. Kids have much less inhibitions than grown ups.

The reality is that in large parts of Africa English is already widely taught and understood by the local population who invariably also speak a local language such as Swahili or Xhosa or one of many others. For African countries to move forward they need to trade and connect culturally with the rest of the world and English is usually the best language to learn though in west Africa French is spoken and in the old Portuguese colonies they learn Portuguese. Anyway the point is that people in Europe or America or Asia are never going to start learning Swahili or Xhosa etc , so it is essential that the African people learn another language and English is an excellent second language for them . I have been to Tanzania and got by very comfortably with English , and all told I lived 17 years in Africa.

I think that teaching a few English words would be possible, but without knowing their language, some things will be very difficult to get across.

You can use gestures….nodding while saying “Yes”, shaking your head and making a sad face while saying “No”, pointing at yourself and saying your gender, as well as saying “me,” then picking up something and saying “mine.” You can do the same to teach “you” and “yours.”….or “his” and “hers.”

You can point at objects in the room and say their names. You can illustrate movements over and over and say what you are doing….walking, sitting, standing, jumping, etc. You can point at parts of your body and theirs and teach body parts….head, hands, fingers, feet, toes, arms, elbows.

You can draw pictures. Some Spanish classes rely almost entirely on pictures, using stick men and stick women and stick children doing various simple things.

It won’t be easy, but children are resilient and bright. You may even learn their language, while you are trying to teach them yours.

If neither of you can communicate you have to use some kind of common communication method.

Pictures of object. Pantomime. Drawing on a chalkboard, etc.

The best thing would be to start trying to learn their language as quickly as possible to help you teach them yours.

i dont really know because i have never really talked to someone who had problems with their english

well i guess u should buy some elementary school english books. teach them how to read

use english langauge when you talk to them

hope this helps

learn the basics of their language..so that u can also talk to them

when teaching start with the simple words..

always start with the basics..

then use visual teaching..

once they get it give them phrases…

then go up one level once they get it..

u just need patience..and you really have to love what your doing