How to Learn English Through Commercial Product

How to learn English through commercial product

There is no doubt that English plays important role as an international language. The need of English increased rapidly nowadays. In many countries, English is not just a foreign language to be learn but it is second language which is usually used everyday  in daily conversation. In addition, English is used as a business and office  language.In some countries, English is used as an international language. 

Considering the important of English, as a parent we have to prepare our children to master English orally and written. We can lead our children to learn English in many ways. The important things is we have to sett their mind set that studying or learning English is fun. We can start from the simple situation and simple ways. We do not need many books to lead them learn English. 

One of the simple ways to learn English is by using Commercial Products. As we know that, commercial product is easy to find in our life. It is cheap and we do not need buy expensive books to prepare our children in mastering English.

Let us see what is commercial product first and its example. Product is anything that produced by people. In economic it is also called goods. Commercial product can be defined as anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy someone needs (Smith, 2006 : 7). We can find commercial product in daily life such as food and drink product, stationary, electronic tools, medicine product, household product and etc. 

And then, how to learn English through commercial product? It is quite simple and easy way to learn English through commercial product. We can do this in our spare time.

1. Collect all wrappers or packaging of commercial product around us. For instance; snack packs, baby powder packs, soap packs.
2. Sort the wrappers or packaging of commercial product appropriate to the children. For example: sort according to baby product which has simple vocabulary.
3. Find and make a list the English vocabulary or sentences which are stated in the wrappers or packaging.   After sorting the commercial product, make a list of English vocabulary or  expression which is found in the pack.
4. Read the words or utterances clearly and ask the children listening the words. Ask them to repeat after your speaking and memorize the words

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Bibliography

Smith, Adam. 2006. Marketing (7th Edition).  Australia : Pearson Education/Prentice Hall