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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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      Using LearnEnglish Kids for listening

      Why not use the songs, stories, videos, games and tongue twisters on LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your young learners?

      Here are some tips and ideas on how to use LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your classes.

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      Using traditional songs

      You can find many traditional songs for use in the primary classroom on the LearnEnglish Kids website.

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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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      What's Your News?

      What news do your students have today? Watch and listen to British children explaining their latest news, having fun and talking about their interests on the What's Your News? series of short videos on LearnEnglish Kids.

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      Poetry competition

      LearnEnglish Kids is once more running the Old Possum's Children's Poetry Competition in partnership with the Children's Poetry Bookshelf.

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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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      Invent a Planet

      In the project students can find out more about all the planets, focus on one individual planet (Saturn) in a fun way, listen and/or read a story about a planet (The Cold Planet) and finally produce a creative and enjoyable piece of art work based on what they have learnt.

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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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      Superheroes

      These materials provide a rich, motivating and entertaining resource for lessons. On this page you will find tips for using and exploiting the materials in the classroom.

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      Using LearnEnglish Kids for listening

      Why not use the songs, stories, videos, games and tongue twisters on LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your young learners?

      Here are some tips and ideas on how to use LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your classes.

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      Food

      On the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find many activities to practise the topic of food. The topic covers the vocabulary areas of basic foods, fruit and vegetables as well as cooking, recipes and healthy eating.

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      Get writing

      There are many activities on the British Council’s site for young learners which you can use with your learners to help them develop their writing skills.

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      Goldilocks and the Three Bears

      Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a traditional story - children have listened to this story for many years. Goldilocks is a young girl who lives in a forest. One day she goes into a house - but she doesn't know that three bears live there!

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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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      Homes and furniture

      On the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find a whole range of activities for teaching the topic ‘Homes and Furniture’.

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      What can it be?

      A great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'What can it be?' 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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