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

Primary Tips

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

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4.333335	Zoo Animals Introduction Children love learning about animals, especially ones which are big, scary, colourful, wild, and potentially
3.466665	Sports and hobbies Introduction This is a good topic for practising different ways of how to collect and store data. You can make mini
4.37037	Where are you?: Prepositions of place Introduction Although this is a grammar point and you’d be advised to limit grammar input for primary learners,
4.5	Six Blind Men And The Elephant Introduction: This story is an adaptation of the famous poem by American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816 - 1887) The Blind Men and the Elephant.
4	Zero Materials Introduction Do you find yourself spending hours preparing your lessons? Are you getting very little support from colleagues? Is it difficult to know what to teach your children without a syllabus? Would you like some tips on


3.916665	Creepy Crawlies This can be done over a series of lessons as part of an ongoing project, dedicating each lesson to a different insect, or otherwise as one lesson. Children love squeamish subjects so you may find that they want
3.90909	Chinese New Year The story of the Chinese New Year: The Chinese New Year is one of the many colourful events celebrated in our multicultural calendar and
3.875	Using the Internet with Younger Learners Introduction When I first started teaching, the schools I worked in had ‘a’ computer that a few classes shared.
3.863635	Teaching speaking and listening skills In this article you will find a few tips to get you started with teaching speaking and listening skills to young learners. The aims are:
3.842105	People who help us Introduction This is a topic which could be easily spread over several lessons by taking a different person i.e. fireman,


4	Objects around the classroom The aims of this lesson are: to develop students' understanding and ability to use some vocabulary related to classroom objects
3.17857	Parts of the body A Vocabulary lesson with Speaking and Listening for Very Young learners
3.842105	People who help us Introduction This is a topic which could be easily spread over several lessons by taking a different person i.e. fireman,
3.25	Polar bear story Introduction This story is based on the well-known children’s joke:
3.61905	Routines and habits Assumptions: The pupils will have already learned the days of the week and how to tell the time. See worksheet 13 a/b in the Ciep 'mallette pédagogique' This worksheet should be done as an introduction if it has not been covered yet.


meity mozes Indonesia	This is very useful for me. Thanks read comment
thuteresa Vietnam	My school is going to have a summer programme for kids and teenagers. This lesson just comes in... read comment
mercedesm Argentina	Hello ! Thanks so much for this great activity, i really love teaching through music, it... read comment

meity mozes
Indonesia

This is very useful for me. Thanks

thuteresa
Vietnam

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

mercedesm
Argentina

Hello !

Thanks so much for this great activity, i really love teaching through music, it...
read comment


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