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'I like doing homework!' 'We get too much homework.' 'Homework is really boring.' 'The teacher doesn’t always check my homework.' What would your learners say about homework? How can you make it a bit more fun?

LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s website for children aged 5-12 who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Find out about the different features of the site and how you can use it in class.

A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but different meaning and spelling.

Paraphrasing is finding another way to say something when you don't know how to say it.

A lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form.

Ice-breakers are speaking activities used with a new class in order to give the learners an opportunity to meet each other.

Quantifiers are words put before nouns to show how many there are.

A determiner is a word that goes before a noun and describes how we are referring to it in the sentence.

Compensation strategies are communication strategies used by learners to compensate for limitations in their language.

On the British Council’s site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - there are lots of stories which you can use to motivate your learners. These stories have been specially written for children learning English and include traditional fairy tales as well as original stories.