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This programme and sample materials provide pupils at the earliest stages of learning English with additional opportunities to develop basic communicative English. Some sample materials are Word documents, others link to online activities or lesson plans on the internet which open in new windows. Many of the Word documents contain images and so may take some time to download.

This programme is intended as a starting point for teachers new to working with beginner pupils - to provide activities for learners, give ideas for teachers to develop their own resources and highlight some of the materials available on the web. The sample activities here are most suitable for KS2 early stage EAL learners.

Topic	Language Structures	Vocabulary	Sample Activities
Giving and responding to greetings and introductions. Meeting immediate needs	Hello Goodbye My name is __________ I am ________ years old	Survival phrases for the new learner of EAL	The Survival Guide (multilingual) All about you
Describing myself and my family	I have_______ This is my _____ Who’s this? I speak	Mum, Dad, mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, father, uncle, aunt	Drawing family members Families sentence building Family languages Face to face Family word search
Identifying classroom objects	It is/It's a _____ They are_______s Give me a _____ What’s this? What’s this in English?	pencil, pen, ruler, rubber, pencil sharpener, table, desk, chair, carpet	What do you take to school Naming and labelling Roleplay - requesting objects. School wall game My new school (Clicker grid)
Identifying parts of the body	It's my ________ It's his/her _________ What's this/that?	head, face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, arms, legs, foot/feet, hands, fingers, toes, knee, elbow, wrist	Body parts (Multilingual) Identifiying body parts from pictures Parts of the body Parts of the face Make a monster
Describing feelings	I am _____ You are ______ She/He is______ I feel_______ How are you?	happy, sad, angry, scared, ill, tired, sick	Illustrating and completing sentences Feelings The Survival Guide (multilingual)
Describing colour	It's ______ The ball is _____ Give me the red ___ What colour is ____?	red, yellow, blue, green, purple, pink, orange, black, white, grey, brown	Paint it! Naming colours
Counting and numbers	There are ___ How many ____ are there?	Numbers 1-100 Plurals	Multilingual Number Lines Digitwise (Multilingual) Counting Fruits
Talking about activities	I am _______ You/we/they are _____ he/she/it is ______ I like _______ What are you doing?	walking, sitting, eating, drinking, talking, standing, running, etc.	Miming actions for others to guess. Verbs Quiz Describing pictures. Things I like to do Make your own activities with clip art
Describing myself and my clothes	I’m wearing ____ I’m wearing a red __ What are you wearing?	T/shirt, shirt, trousers, skirt, dress, shoes, socks, tights, jumper, coat, hat	Clothes and things we wear Teddy Dresser (FS/KS1) Job Mixer Labelling clothes Clothes Cut and sort pictures from magazines into clothes for hot/cold weather, clothes for school, etc.
Identifying food likes and dislikes	I like ____ I don’t like _____ Do you like ____? I eat ____ for breakfast	A variety of foods, including those children are likely to be familiar and unfamiliar with. Breakfast, lunch, dinner	Foods I like Classifying into food groups. What's your favourite food? Fruits Food stories
Talking about a home	It’s the _____ We cook in the kitchen There’s a _____ Where do you ___?	Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, sitting room, dining room, chair, table, bed, lamp, cooker, fridge, tv, toilet, etc.	Virtual House Things around the home. Paint the room Cut furniture from magazines and group/stick into appropriate rooms. Match the verb to the room Things in the home