Primary tips

This area of the site is designed to help support language assistants who are working with primary age students. You can find helpful hints and advice under these categories:-

Parts of the body  
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A Vocabulary lesson with Speaking and Listening for Very Young learners

At the beach  
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Once it starts to get warm you can easily start to talk about holidays and possible destinations. The beach is

Fruit and Vegetables  
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This is a popular topic in any primary course and has a lot of potential for cross-curricular work.

Farm animals  
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Children love units connected with animals and farm animals can provide lots of fun opportunities to practise

Transport  
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This tip is a selection of vocabulary building activities based on the subject of transport. I have included several

Machines  
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Children are often fascinated by machines; the way they work, inventing their own. We are not going to go into

People who help us  
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This is a topic which could be easily spread over several lessons by taking a different person i.e. fireman,

Where are you?: Prepositions of place  
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Although this is a grammar point and you’d be advised to limit grammar input for primary learners,

The Alphabet  
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The alphabet can be an easy way of collating new vocabulary and lends itself well to fun activities that will help

Word building  
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Recently in the discussion forum the question was raised of how to present vocabulary and how to vary the

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