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Australian citizenship day resource
A fun set of activities all about Australian citizenship day. This resource includes activities suitable for intermediate learners.

Autism guide
A short but useful guide with information about autism/ASD and adjustments you can make to your teaching practice to accommodate learners with autism.

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

Behaviour for learning chart
A printable behaviour for learning chart with space for translation.
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Bilingual vocabulary sheet
Practical strategies to help you to promote the use of mother tongue in your classroom.
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Birthday customs around the world resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about different birthday customs around the world. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

Bug team game
Let your learners build friendships with this snakes and ladders variation!
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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.

Changing shoes activity
You can only take a suitcase with you. Use these question cards to act out a role-play about moving to a new country and only taking one suitcase with you.

Christmas Customs Resource
A resource all about Christmas customs around the world. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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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 resource
Scaffolded flashcards and associated resources to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Classroom instructions

CLIL lesson plan
A planning template for a CLIL (content and language integrated learning) lesson with an example on how it can be used.
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CLIL: Practical planning guide for teachers
Use this checklist when planning CLIL lessons or using the Curriculum Content topics from Learning Village.

Co-regulation and self-regulation strategies
Use these strategies to help you and your learners co-regulate and self-regulate.

Collaborative planning document
Plan collaboratively with your subject-specific colleagues to gain overviews and multi-subject links.
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Collaborative role-play resource
Instructions and resources for a collaborative role-play activity with EAL learners in class.

Conjunctions - because and so - flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Conjunctions because and so

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EAL teacher guidance

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