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Welcome to the new Language Assistant site! You can find regular updates on the four areas of our site:

Essential UK: lesson plans on UK topics
Games: fun ideas for all ages and levels
Primary Tips: ideas for primary age classes
Teaching Tips: activities for secondary classes

Be a Language Assistant

We can offer you the opportunity to work as a Language Assistant in the UK or in one of the 20 countries that are part of our scheme. In 2007-08 we sent nearly 2,200 English Language Assistants overseas.

Find out here how you can improve your language and teaching abilities while experiencing a different culture.

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LA essential UK Smoking and smoking bans Age range: 13 - adult Theme: Smoking and smoking bans. Lexical area: Smoking, health. Cross curricular links: Health awa LA games Concentration This is a good game for high-energy groups when you need to get them all sitting down and on task. LA primary tips Lesson plans Why should I write a plan? You may find that during your time as an assistant you are called upon to not only assist the teacher but to actually teach the English lesson yourself. If this is the case the best option is to be prepared. LA teaching tips Strategies for keeping attention Keeping students' attention and stopping them from getting distracted is a big challenge. Here are some reasons why students’ attention may wander and ways to keep your classes on track. LA games Change places… This is a great activity to get students moving about and practice some vocabulary or sentence structures. LA essential UK Brit awards 2010 Theme: The British music industry awards Lexical area: Music and prizes LA teaching tips Recycling Vocabulary Did you know that you have to see a new word at least five times before you can usually use it and include it in your ‘active’ vocabulary? LA essential UK Slang: How do young Brits speak? Theme: Slang, youth culture, informal language, multicultural society Lexical area: language, song lyrics, young people