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Fitness Regime Resource
An in-depth resource all about fitness regimes, with activities 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.

Fun group games using multiple learning styles
Instructions and guidance on a number of original language learning group games and activities to cater for multiple learning styles.

Game ideas
Need some more EAL games? Find here a number of fun game activities for your EAL and multilingual learners.

Games for young learners
List of games to help young learners practise speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Graphic organiser template
A graphic organiser template for a report text that can be used in a number of different ways.
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Halloween Resource
A resource all about Halloween. Includes flashcards, an early literacy activity and reading comprehension and fluency activities.

Healthy eating resource
Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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Helpful language for learning English in Science
Questions and substitution tables to prepare learners for Science lessons.
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Holiday projects for older learners
This resource includes a holiday learning pack which will give older pupils fun, collaborative and sociable ways of continuing to practise their speaking, listening, reading and writing during the holiday period.

Home-School diary
An English Language Learning Diary with blank pages to add in your own topics.

How to encourage your EAL learners to be friends of nature

A list of tips to help you encourage your learners to enjoy and celebrate the natural world.

Hygiene text deconstruction and reconstruction
Text-based deconstruction and reconstruction activities for learners. Topic: Hygiene.

Hygiene text resource

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

Image-based storytelling prompts
A number of storytelling prompts that can be used with images to get your learners writing. The guidance is differentiated by learner level.

Inclusive EAL Classroom Tips

A list of tips to help you create an inclusive classroom for your EAL learners.

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International mother language day activities
This game introduces children, in a fun way, to a variety of languages.
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International mother language day activities 2
A wonderful array of activity ideas to celebrate International Mother Language Day with your learners, by special guest author Mary Langford.
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Kinaesthetic Learning: Tips and ideas for the classroom
Practical tips and ideas for integrating kinaesthetic learning and movement into the (EAL) classroom.

Language board game
Instructions and guidance on a language board game, including instructions on how to create your own board, a template board and cards.

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EAL teacher guidance

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