Would you like to make your lessons more interactive? Using videos is a fantastic way to practice listening comprehension and to make your students interested. Then you can do a lot of activities based on a video, such as speaking, writing or even reading, learn new vocabulary and practice grammar. And this kind of lesson…
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Merry Christmas!
Christmas vocabulary Great presentation created by Millinguals! ¡Fantástica presentación creada por Millinguals! Millinguals.com
Happy Thanksgiving!
What do you know about Thanksgiving? Learn new vocabulary and find out the origins of Thanksgiving! This fantastic lesson about Thanksgiving has been shared by Millinguals. You can also check their Facebook page, they have lots of interesting things for learning English and Spanish!
STORY TIME: The tale of Peter Rabbit
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT By Beatrix Potter Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were— Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree. ‘Now my dears,’ said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, ‘you may go into…
Easter songs for children
Did you ever see a bunny? Did you ever see a bunny, a bunny, a bunny, Did you ever see a bunny that hops so slow? He hops, and hops, and hops, and hops, Did you ever see a bunny that hops so slow? Did you ever see a bunny, a bunny, a bunny, Did…
Counting Easter Eggs
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STORY TIME: Santa’s Early Christmas
CHRISTMAS STORY FOR CHILDREN Click here for Audiobook: Santa’s Early Christmas You can also check our Christmas Vocabulary Flashcards
STORY TIME: Rudolph to the rescue!
CHRISTMAS STORY FOR CHILDREN Questions: Why was Rudolph near to tears? What happened when Santa was on his way to Galacto? Why did Santa call Rudolph after delivering his presents on Galacto? How could Rudolph help Santa if he was feeling so bad? Did they arrive to Earth in time? Do you like this story? Why?…
Thanksgiving activities
Thanksgiving vocabulary THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving is an important celebration in the United States, in which families and friends cook and share a great meal. Turkey is the star of the menu, and other typical dishes are mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common activity at Thanksgiving, and people organize…
Learning to read and write with Jolly Phonics
In It’s a piece of cake we use Jolly Phonics to teach children aged 5 to 8. and Jolly Phonics is a child centred approach to teaching writing and reading skills, developped by UK teachers. Children learn the 42 letter sounds in a specific order, not alphabetically, so they are able to build words easier and faster….
Dyslexia in the English as a foreign language classroom
DYSLEXIA, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Dyslexia is a reading disability caused by a defect in the brain’s processing of graphic symbols, but it is not an illness and it is not rare. A lot of people have dyslexia, and not only children. Many kids with dyslexia worry that there is something wrong with them, they can…
Grammatical Awareness Activities
1. Colour parsing Language: Present Simple/ general questions Materials: coloured chalk, coloured pencils Time: 20-30 min Four colours are needed: red for verbs (‘like’, ’love’, ’hate’); blue for subject pronouns (‘I’, ’you’, ’she’, ’he’, ’etc’.); yellow for auxiliary verbs (‘do’, ‘does’) and green for nouns for food (‘pizza’, ‘coffee’, ‘tea’, ‘bananas’, ‘tomatoes’). The teacher divides…
Orthographic Awareness Activities
1. Magic “e” The teacher draws a chart on the board with the words ‘mad’, ‘win’, ‘hop’ and ‘cut’ on the first column. The teacher and the students read the words together, paying attention to the vowel sounds. Then the teacher asks the students to write these words again adding the ‘e’ at the end…
Activities for Developing Phonological Awareness and the awareness of sound-letter relations
1. Segmenting compound words and sentences into words. The students say ‘toothbrush’ without a ‘tooth’; ‘rainbow’ without ‘bow’, ‘girlfriend’ without ‘girl’. The students listen to the teacher reading a sentence and place a marker from the left to the right for each word heard. The fat cat is on the mat …
Rhythm and rhyme
Author: Rebecca Place Rebecca Place is a teacher of Young Learners at the British Council in Bilbao. She has trained teachers in Synthetic Phonics and has spoken about rhythm and rhyme at various Macmillan Teachers’ Days around Spain. In this article Rebecca discusses how chants, rhymes and songs can help to develop young learners’ communicative…
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