Teaching resources

Children love learning about animals, especially ones which are big, scary, colourful, wild, and potentially dangerous!

This is a discussion activity that you can use to find out about your students’ opinions of language learning and how important they think it is.

The biography section of portfolios is a documentation of the learners’ personal language learning history and can include, for example, a short narrative about the summer camp they attended and for which they may include a certificate of attendance in the passport section.

Explore the topic of sports and hobbies, using mini questionnaires, charts and group work activities with your learners.

This is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen.

Although this is a grammar point and you’d be advised to limit grammar input for primary learners, you can present the prepositions as units of vocabulary.

This story is an adaptation of a famous poem by American poet John Godfrey Saxe.

This activity is a really fun way of introducing the importance of intonation to learners as they try to communicate meaning effectively using a made-up language!

Do you find yourself spending hours preparing your lessons? Are you getting very little support from colleagues? Is it difficult to know what to teach your learners without a syllabus? Would you like some tips on how to create a good lesson when you find yourself with ten minutes to prepare a lesson, a broken photocopier, and your bag of teaching goodies safely locked up at home?

Have you ever considered that activities that encourage adults to practise speaking in class may be quite different to ones that stimulate our younger learners?