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Young Learners
Variations on classic YL games ~ Slap
Five ways to play a simple and very fun game that practises any language on flashcards
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Using the song “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” in EFL classes.
Teaching chunks to Very Young Learners
Why and how to teach chunks – expressions or short sentences – to children, and why it may work better than teaching individual words.
“Where’s Spot?” post-reading
Ideas for activities after reading the all-time classic children’s book “Where’s Spot?” in class.
Reading “Where’s Spot” in EFL class
How to use the all-time classic children’s book “Where’s Spot?” in class for all levels and for ages 2 to 9.
Using “Brown Bear Brown Bear” in EFL class
How to use the classic picture book “Brown Bear Brown Bear” in class, and ways to adapt these ideas to other books.
How to use Primary iDictionary CD ROM in class
Ideas on how to use multimedia content with the under 11s
Using Learn English Kids Just for Fun games in class
Learn English Kids is a great site for class or home use that is offered by the British Council for free. Much of the content is comparable in interest and quality to paid content on CD ROMs etc. If there is any problem with the site it is that the sheer amount of good material [...]
Using the picture book “From Head to Toe” in EFL classes
From Head to Toe is one of the most popular books from the famous storybook writer and illustrator Eric Carle. Like most books that are popular with native speaker children, it goes down much better with language learners than books especially written for EFL if it is used properly. It is easy to find in [...]
Xtranormal.com & EFL young learners
www.xtranormal.com is a website you can use for free where you or your students can type in lines of dialogue and instructions for how the characters should move and so easily make an animated “movie” from that script. The site is popular with kids and seeing their words spoken on screen is a great motivator. [...]
18 fun activities connected to the topic of amusement parks
I sat down to brainstorm these ideas and write some of them up as lessons to match a particular unit in the Oxford University Press textbook for teenagers Challenges 1 that I am using, but this is such a popular topic for young learners and teenagers that I would use many of the ideas again [...]
Fun Ways to Teach Young Children Vocabulary
As language teachers with more or less teaching experience, we have often wondered how we can better educate our pupils so that they gain self-confidence speaking their second language, as well as being able to read, write and even more important speak it. In fact the answer is found when we ask another common question: [...]
15 fun ways of using pre-school storybooks
1. Spot something in the picture This works best with a detailed picture like Where’s Waldo?/Where’s Wally? but can be used with details of the picture (and text, if they can read) of almost any book, e.g. What colour are the duck’s boots? 2. Guess and check For example, “The caterpillar wants to eat something [...]
15 techniques for calming down a pre-school class
“Cooler” activities and techniques like these below can be good for classes who tend to lose concentration and/ or get injured when they get overexcited, to change pace when there has been something like someone crying that interrupted a previous activity, to let them get their energy back before the next active stage, and/ or [...]
15 variations for large pre-school classes
If you have a large class of pre-school aged kids, for example 45 three-year-olds, you can have the problem that not only do the games that work with older ages not work, but neither do the ones that work with smaller classes. Do not despair! Rather than throwing away
15 fun sit down activities for pre-school classes
Although movement and fun are two important elements you should try to put into every kindergarten English class, sometimes you will need sit down activities like these below to calm students down, regain discipline and/ or let the teacher get his or her energy back. These activities are also useful for kindergartens where the policy [...]
15 flashcard activities for any pre-school English class
These ideas are designed to work with every kind of kindergarten class, including typical problem classes such as large classes, classes that can’t move around, mixed level classes, classes with very low level students, classes that study very little English and classes with short attention spans
15 uses for guessing games in any pre-school English class
As much as singing, moving around, chanting, colouring in etc are all vital parts of a pre-school English lesson that can take some getting used to if you haven’t taught very young learners before, sometimes the most intensive language practice can come from variations on games you play with your adult classes. The descriptions below [...] |
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