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      This area of the site is designed to help support language assistants who are working with primary age students.

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      The Multi-Cultural Primary Classroom

      Introduction
      You may find in your primary English class that you have children who struggle with the school language in their first year of primary school because they have a different home language. How will this affect your classroom when teaching English to 1st year primary? How can you cater to their needs? How can you simplify the language so that all your 6 year olds can learn?
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      A Christmas Lesson

      This lesson uses the theme of Christmas to develop students vocabulary. It includes a song and some fun colouring and drawing activities.
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      Winter

      This tip is in response to postings this year and in previous years: Christmas and how to integrate it into your lessons. I have decided to write
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      Halloween

      This lesson has some fun activities and language learning tasks based around the theme of Halloween. The activities include singing songs and making Halloween decorations.
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      The Seasons

      ‘The Four Seasons’ is a great topic for the beginning of the year as it marks the start of a fresh cycle.

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      My favourite book

      Introduction
      I decided to write a tip about using storybooks as in the forum I frequently refer to storybooks as being a way to approach topics and introduce vocabulary with young learners. I’ve detailed a few general tips to

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      Machines

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

      Introduction

      During the school year children can move house and change schools for various reasons. When they arrive in a new school it can be hard for them to adapt to their new classmates and for the classmates to accept a new class member. Learning a topic about moving house and changing schools will help your learners to see that it's important to accept new people and that it can be hard but exciting for those who move.
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      Managing very young learners

      Introduction
      It can be very daunting going into a class of 20 or 30 five-year-olds when you have little teaching experience.
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      Using Opposites

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      This is a lesson designed to help learners understand and remember opposite adjectives. Many of the

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      A Christmas Lesson

      This lesson uses the theme of Christmas to develop students vocabulary. It includes a song and some fun colouring and drawing activities.
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      All about me

      Introduction
      With very young learners much of what they do in the classroom revolves around them. Before school they are often the centre of ‘their’ universe so starting school can sometimes be a bit of a shock.

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      At the beach

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

      Introduction
      Coming into a primary English lesson should always be about having fun. The fun should obviously always be grounded in learning, but it's important to always remember the enjoyment factor. This is why it's good to base your lessons on subjects that children will automatically relate to.
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      Calendar Based Activities

      This lesson is based around the calendar and helping students to use dates.

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      meity mozes
      Indonesia

      This is very useful for me. Thanks


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      thuteresa
      Vietnam

      My school is going to have a summer programme for kids and teenagers. This lesson just comes in...
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      mercedesm
      Argentina

      Hello !

      Thanks so much for this great activity, i really love teaching through music, it...
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      A Christmas Lesson

      All about me

      At the beach

      At the funfair

      Calendar Based Activities

      Chinese New Year

      Clothes

      Colours: What is pink ?

      Creepy Crawlies

      Drama with children 1

      Drama with children 2

      Drawing and colouring in the primary classroom

      Easter

      English Clubs and Corners

      Evaluating Progress

      Fairy Tales

      Farm animals

      First Lessons

      Food I like/don't like

      Fruit and Vegetables

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