Tercer Ensayo de Enseñanza del Inglés para Niños

Lizeth Peralta

The child’s conversation

One morning I was talking and playing with a nephew of mine that is three years old, his name is David, he lives with his parents, his elder brother, his aunt (the sister of his mother) and his grandmother; David is a shy kid, but if someone talks to him he answers, also is very funny when he plays and speaks, he uses his imagination when he is playing with or without toys.

Before I recorded the kid I gave him a movie that he would like to watch, then I had to ask to my cousin, David’s aunt, to lend me some toys that the kid likes to play toys because they were the motivation that made David to talk with me, then I explained the kid that we have to play with some of his toys dividing them in superheroes and villains that want to destroy the superheroes, he understood me very well.

At the moment that I was recording the kid with my camera, he was introducing himself, he was excited because I brought him the movie and he wanted to watch it in that moment, but I told him that we could watch it after recording our conversation; I asked him to show me his toys before we play, he was describing them, most of them were characters of movies that are known like Spiderman, Toy Story, Kung fu panda, Transformers, Happy Feet, etc.

Then I was planning the game that we were playing, I was playing with toys that were villains to make him use his imagination and say something about the game and at the same time I was holding my camera and recording our game; the first moment that I was performing the first villain using a toy I was a little nervous because I haven’t played with a little kid a long time, but when I saw my nephew acting like a superhero using his favorite figure, Spiderman, I was excited and that made me having a lot of fun.

After the kid using his favorite figure, Spiderman,  beat the first villain, I used one of his toys that is a superhero, Buzz Light Year, to make him talk something because if I wouldn’t use another toy then he wouldn’t speak, he speaks when somebody asks him something or when he plays, but he remembered me that there is another villain that was a robot so I used it and he still used Spiderman, I was recommending to David that use one more superhero, but he didn’t want so I took one for to play both characters, the good one and the bad one.

When we finished the second villain, he told me something about the movie that I gave him, and he played Spiderman and he moved it doing caravans and thanking because he imagined that there are cheers for Spiderman, but I played with him using Buzz Light Year and saying that are friends; then I used another robot that was going to be the last villain and David always used Spiderman as a superhero and I used again Buzz Light Year, at the same time I was playing both characters and David was playing using his imagination and the robot hurt a penguin, and both, Buzz Light Year and Spiderman beat it.

I recommend to someone that wants to do this work with little kids to bring any material that kids like to play, they commonly like toys, and is the easiest way to make them to have fun, but is not advisable for someone that wants to record a kid that bring candies or something eatable for the kid at the moment that is recording the kid because kids are not careful because they could throttle at the moment that they’re going to speak.