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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 whole class, group or individual work.

      Here are some tips and ideas for using LearnEnglish Kids with the whole class, with smaller groups and with pairs or individuals.

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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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      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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      Using videos

      You can watch videos and listen to children talk about their lives on the British Council’s NEW LearnEnglish Kids site for young learners.

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      New LearnEnglish Kids

      LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s website for children who are learning English as a second or foreign language.

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      Using videos

      You can watch videos and listen to children talk about their lives on the British Council’s NEW LearnEnglish Kids site for young learners.

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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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      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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      Homework

      'I like doing homework!' 'We get too much homework.' 'Homework is really boring.' 'The teacher doesn’t always check my homework.' What would your students say about homework?

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      The environment

      The environment is a rich cross-curricular resource to explore and broaden our children’s knowledge of the world and heighten their awareness of environmental issues.

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      Magic Pencil

      The Magic Pencil exhibition and website celebrated children's book illustration and brought together the work of 13 illustrators who offered familiar as well as new and varied ways of approaching book illustration.

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      New LearnEnglish Kids

      LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s website for children who are learning English as a second or foreign language.

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      Numbers

      On the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find materials for practising numbers with all levels of young learners. Activities range from simple matching and spelling exercises to stories and worksheets to practise really big numbers.

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      Playground

      On the British Council’s site for young learners LearnEnglish Kids you will find many activities for practising the language of the playground.

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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.

      Lesson plans

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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
      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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