I stumbled on this very sweet short film this week. I’m planning to use it in a short (40-minute) lesson for advanced 6 and 7-year-old learners, but the video is wordless so it could be adapted to beginner learners too. I started by exploring crop circles and their meanings, then watched the video and asked […]
Here is a set of mini books I used last week to get learners practising using present simple tense with “I like to…”. PDF: Hobbies and activities – What do you like to do
I have updated some of the mini books for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, so that they now have just three penmanship lines, rather than four. You can download the PDF of all eight below: Very Hungry Caterpillar mini books You can see my original resources in the post here.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle: a perennial favourite! I’m planning on laminating these and keeping a set in a box in the classroom – any time a child needs a bit of quiet time, or has finished early, she can complete them with a whiteboard marker and bring it to me to check. […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is full of useful vocabulary for children – days of the week, food names, numbers… Children can use this vocabulary to create their own stories – for instance, “What I ate this week” (“On Monday, I ate fried rice. On Tuesday, I ate chicken.”), making it nice and personal to them. […]
Minibooks are a staple food in my classroom. I use them for everything! At the beginning of the year, I get my students to make a mini library using an old cereal box and some coloured paper, then we start to work on filling it. Students make vocabulary books on themes – e.g. My Book […]