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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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Real BooksIn this comprehensive series of newsletters available to download, Opal Dunn introduced readers to real books to use in the classroom and elsewhere, with recommendations and related features. |
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Magic PencilThe 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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SchoolSchool is a topic which has a lot of potential for young learner teachers: it can be easily extended and should be revised frequently |
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Homes and furnitureOn the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find a whole range of activities for teaching the topic ‘Homes and Furniture’. |
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The alphabetThe alphabet is one of the fundamental teaching points at primary level and needs to be frequently recycled and practised using a variety of different activities. On the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find a wide range of activities and materials for teaching and practising the alphabet. |
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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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Poetry competitionLearnEnglish 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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Goldilocks and the Three BearsGoldilocks 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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Word of the week'Word of the week' is a new video section on LearnEnglish Kids that aims to teach children vocabulary that they may not find in their English course book. The videos show children in the UK using words like ‘cheeky’, ‘chill’ and ‘fan’. The words are spoken individually and then the children show how the words are used in context by means of a short dialogue. |
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FoodOn 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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Promoting diversity through children’s literatureAt 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 KidsYoung learners can now publish their writing on the New LearnEnglish Kids site: http://learneng |
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Real BooksIn this comprehensive series of newsletters available to download, Opal Dunn introduced readers to real books to use in the classroom and elsewhere, with recommendations and related features. |
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SchoolSchool is a topic which has a lot of potential for young learner teachers: it can be easily extended and should be revised frequently |
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Speak and spellHelp 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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Ali and the magic carpetA great lesson plan providing ideas for using the short story 'Ali and the magic carpet' from LearnEnglish Kids |
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Dinosaur digA great lesson plan providing ideas for using the short story 'Dinosaur dig' from LearnEnglish Kids |
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I can runA great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'I can run' song on LearnEnglish Kids |
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Monster shopping tripA great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'Monster shopping trip' short story on LearnEnglish Kids |
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Over the mountainsA great lesson plan providing ideas for using the 'Over the mountains' song on LearnEnglish Kids |
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