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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. |
LearnEnglish kids
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ABC Zoo flashcardsAs 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. |
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ChristmasThere 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. |
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Circus escapeIn the story an elephant escapes from the circus and runs off into town. The elephant meets Billy and saves him from a fire. |
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ClothesOn 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. |
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Family and friendsOn the LearnEnglish Kids website you can find a variety of materials for teaching about Family and Friends. |
BritLit stories
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A Handful of Poems by Tony MittonThe 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. |
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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. |
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Jack and the BeanstalkThis 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. |
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Little Red Riding HoodAll 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. |
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Old MacDonald Had a FarmThe 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. |
Articles
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Listening for young learnersIn 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. |
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Picture books for allCan I hear you tutting? "Picturebooks for all? But aren't picturebooks for babies and small children?" |
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Starting primaryTeaching 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. |
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Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroomTeaching 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. |
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The magic of story timeHave you ever noticed children listening to a story so attentively that the classroom is completely quiet? Or have you ever noticed children participating in a story so actively that everyone in the class wants to contribute? If so, then you've witnessed the 'magic of story time'! |
Primary tips
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The Multi-Cultural Primary ClassroomIntroduction |
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A Christmas LessonThis 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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WinterThis 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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HalloweenThis 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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