Beginners and elementary learners often require very careful training.
At this point in their learning confidence is very important and overcorrection
can create a real problem. Also vocabulary is very limited and so each
word you use must be thought about.
Resources on this Website
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Cheeky Monkey On the last day of the holidays my 4 year old son and I decided to create a story. There is a Talking Flash Animated version, MP3 version and Story Book version. Animated Story (900KB SWF) Story Book (995KB PDF) Audio Story (594KB MP3) |
Letters
- Letter Pack (290KB PDF)
Letter posters, cards, dotted and grids to help students learn the letters of English.
Speaking & Vocabulary
- Pronunciation
Includes spoken guide to common sound mistakes, handouts and tongue twisters.
- International Phonetic alphabet
Step-by-step instructions for making your own handouts with IPA characters and useful handouts.
- Vocabulary Packs
These packs provide students with essential vocabulary, activities, definitions and pronunciation guides. (There are currently packs for travel, food and rooms)
- Greetings (42KB PDF)
A guide to English greetings and a simple body language guide.
- How
to make a vocab book (62KB pdf)
Grammar
- Verb To Have (62KB PDF)
It's almost impossible to find a simple explanation for the verb to have. So here it is without the burdens of the perfect tenses and thousands of modals uses.
- Prepositions with time (25KB PDF)
Prepositions with time matching cards.
- Past Simple Test with Form
Guide (57KB PDF)
This is a Past Simple Test with common regular and irregular verbs. It also includes the form of the past-simple.
- A Day In The Life Of An English
Teacher (220KB PDF)
Includes sample day in the life of an English Teacher with regular / irregular verb quiz. Also includes answers and a form to allow teachers and students to create their own days in a simple format that encourages use of the Past Simple.
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Common Uncountable Nouns (53KB PDF)
This handout includes a list of common uncountable nouns, it is really aimed at oriental users who often hear them used as countable nouns in their own countries. - House Plan (216KB PDF)
Ideal exercise to revise prepositions of place and furniture lexis. It is also a good discussion exercise.
Others
- Seat Plans and Layouts
How to change seating arrangements to suit your classroom. This resource also includes clipart to make it easier when doing your own planning.
- Using Realia
How to use real material in your lessons.
- Top 20 Fillers
We present the ESL Lesson First Aid Kit to revive any flagging ESL lesson.
- Dress Codes (317
KB PDF)
Complete Lesson plan with Matching cards and exercises to assist students understanding of dress codes.
