The English alphabet

I noticed that some of my students do have some difficulty in pronouncing some words because they don't know even most of the alphabet.In fact, they would like to learn ,but they find this hinderance.Therefore, Idecided to start my lesson with the English alphabet.I asked some of my students about the English alphabet.I asked students to listen carefully .I played the tape recorder.I distributed sheets where there are some blanks to fill in.I asked the students to listen and to write the missing words. I asked some students to read what they have written.I asked pairs students to compare their answers.Then ,we had a correction on the blackboard.I had also a lesson about days of the week and I used jazz chant following the same previuos steps.I was very glad because when I meet some of my students ,I hear them singing the songs they have learnt in class though nobody of their parnts know any word of English.