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      Teaching kids

      This part of the site is for teachers working with children. It offers a range of activities and lesson ideas which are based around online materials from the British Council's LearnEnglish Kids website. Most of the materials can be used either online or can be downloaded and used in the classroom.

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      Tips for using stories

      On the British Council’s site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - there are lots of stories which you can use to motivate your students.

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      Speak and spell

      Help your learners improve their pronunciation and spelling with the songs, stories, games and spelling tests in the Speak and Spell section on LearnEnglish Kids. This section is based on the Letters and Sounds UK phonics literacy programme. Here are some ideas for using Speak and Spell in class. But first a bit about phonics.

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      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.

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      Halloween

      Happy Halloween from the team at LearnEnglish Kids! There are lots of activities for Halloween on our site and you will find most of the content here:

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      Keeping in touch with LearnEnglish Kids

      Teachers can receive updates on new content on LearnEnglish Kids, share ideas with teachers around the world, contact the LearnEnglish Kids team and encourage parents to keep in touch with the site.

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      Keeping in touch with LearnEnglish Kids

      Teachers can receive updates on new content on LearnEnglish Kids, share ideas with teachers around the world, contact the LearnEnglish Kids team and encourage parents to keep in touch with the site.

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      Tips for fairy tales

      Fairy tales are a rich source of motivating learning content for our younger learners. This tip looks at how you can exploit the 'fairy tale' resources on the British Council's LearnEnglish Kids site with your students.

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      Promoting diversity through children’s literature

      At the British Council’s Teaching Centre in Paris, as part of our holiday programme for children, we are using carefully selected storybooks from the rich world of authentic children’s literature t

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      Publish writing on LearnEnglish Kids

      Young learners can now publish their writing on the New LearnEnglish Kids site: http://learneng

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      Learning tips

      As well as teaching English to our young learners, we can help them reach their full potential as language learners. Here are some tips and ideas on how to use materials on the LearnEnglish Kids website to help your pupils learn more effectively.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      Family and friends

      On the LearnEnglish Kids website you can find a variety of materials for teaching about Family and Friends.

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      Ali and the magic carpet

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the short story 'Ali and the magic carpet' from LearnEnglish Kids

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      Dinosaur dig

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the short story 'Dinosaur dig' from LearnEnglish Kids

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      I can run

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'I can run' song on LearnEnglish Kids

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      Monster shopping trip

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'Monster shopping trip' short story on LearnEnglish Kids

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      Over the mountains

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'Over the mountains' song on LearnEnglish Kids 

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      vrtheblue's picture

      vrtheblue
      Thailand
      I use this to my class . The class is joyful. It's work.
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      kathbaird
      Hong Kong
      I teach at a Kindergarten in Hong Kong and have used Memory Game with some success in my K2 class (...
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      Sally Trowbridge
      Spain

      Hi
      Because the resources on our websites are regularly updated this can sometimes mean that...
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