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'What's in an image' resource

A lovely resource which encourages your learners to explore an interesting image and create and discuss their own.

10 Ideas for Co-constructing EAL Listening Activities for Beginners
A list of ideas for listening activities that you can use with your learners.
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Adjective flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adjectives

Adverbs flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adverbs

April Fool's Day resource
A printable resource about April Fool's Day and fictional news stories that includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Celebrating amazing women scaffolded resource
A great resource about female role models and their characteristics. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. Great for International Women's Day.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity Resource
An incredible, in depth resource celebrating cultural diversity, with activities for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Christmas Resource
A resource all about Christmas. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Class language survey
This resource includes a class language survey that can be used with your learners to gather information about the languages spoken in their class and how they are used with different people.

Classroom instructions flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Classroom instructions

Collaborative role-play resource
Instructions and resources for a collaborative role-play activity with EAL learners in class.

EAL Wellbeing Resource
An EAL Wellbeing Resource that introduces EAL learners to the vocabulary and language structures they need to understand and talk about their feelings, and importantly, to access support. It covers simple mental health vocabulary and communication techniques.

Easter resource
A members-only printable resource about Easter traditions that includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Members only

Election resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about local or national elections. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

Empathy cards
A set of printable empathy cards with various reflection questions about language learning and transitional experiences. Works well for learners to get to know each other at the start of the school year, to reflect about experiences or to celebrate international mother tongue day.

Exercise Resource
A resource all about exercise. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Football Competition resource

A useful resource to use with your learners to explore football competitions, with resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Healthy eating resource
Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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Hygiene text resource

Vocabulary for hygiene, infection and cleanliness, using an instructional genre.

International mother language day activities
This game introduces children, in a fun way, to a variety of languages.
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EAL teacher guidance

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Teaching pre-literate learners
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Using a multimodal approach in the classroom
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