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	Primary Ideas, materials and tips for teaching younger learners. The Primary tips content here comes from our site for Language Assistants.

Primary

Ideas, materials and tips for teaching younger learners. The Primary tips content here comes from our site for Language Assistants.

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3.63889	ABC Zoo flashcards As a teacher, there are many ways of exploiting and integrating flashcards that provide your learners with opportunities to practise their English in a variety of enjoyable and motivating ways.
3.739475	Christmas There are lots of Christmas activities on the British Council’s site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - which you can use with your students during the festive season.
3.62963	Circus escape In the story an elephant escapes from the circus and runs off into town. The elephant meets Billy and saves him from a fire.
3.601155	Clothes On the Learn English Kids website you can find a wealth of resources and activities to help children develop their English skills. Here are tips for using and exploiting materials about the topic of clothes, including vocabulary work, skills work to practise reading and listening, and suggestions for further development and creative work.
3.37912	Family and friends On the LearnEnglish Kids website you can find a variety of materials for teaching about Family and Friends.


3.83019	A Handful of Poems by Tony Mitton The four poems in this collection are all by Tony Mitton, and the materials are the first to be designed by BritLit for the age range 9 – 11 year olds. Each collection includes text and audio of the poem as well as learning activities, teachers' notes and visual support.
4.075	Down by the Cool of the Pool “Down by the Cool of the Pool” is a rhyming text written by Tony Mitton. Join Frog and his farmyard friends as they dance around the pool.
4.493245	Jack and the Beanstalk This BritLit Primary Kit has been designed for use with any version of the tale. The kit integrates a range of mixed-ability cross-curricular materials within the context of the tale in order to actively engage children and develop their cognitive, linguistic and social skills.
4.09886	Little Red Riding Hood All around the world children love listening to and reading fairy tales in their mother tongue. Whatever the reason, fairy tales provide both children and teachers with a familiar starting point from which to explore stories in a second language.
4.30928	Old MacDonald Had a Farm The kit includes ideas to engage the children in the tale in addition to a host of activities to exploit the story and to extend the topic of farms and farm animals.


3.984375	Carol Read: The secret of working with children In February 2012, Carol Read gave a workshop at the British Council in Warsaw. Her talk covered a range of primary issues and she gave a number of invaluable tips about teaching primary students. Watch her talk here.
3.385715	Listening for young learners In this article I will briefly focus on how I try to develop listening skills with our young learners who are learning English as an additional language.
3.61017	Picture books for all Can I hear you tutting? "Picturebooks for all? But aren't picturebooks for babies and small children?" There are some wonderful examples of picturebooks, often in board book format, which are specifically for babies and small children, but picturebooks are not just for babies.
4.117115	Starting primary Teaching at primary level can cause many teachers, particularly those who have trained to teach adults, a variety of problems and generate a range of worries.
3.707145	Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir' and when to ‘settle' children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other.


4.375	Farm animals Introduction Children love units connected with animals and farm animals can provide lots of fun opportunities to practise
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
3.17857	Parts of the body A Vocabulary lesson with Speaking and Listening for Very Young learners
3.2	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?
3.9375	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.


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