Step 2

This programme and sample materials provide pupils at the early 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) The programme and sample activities are most suitable for Key Stage 2 early stage EAL learners.

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.

Topic	Language Structures	Vocabulary	Sample Activities
Describing shape Giving and following instructions	It's ___________. Colour the square ________.	Triangle, square, circle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, sides, corners	2D shapes (Clicker grid) Paint the shapes 2D and 3D shapes Classifying and sorting shapes Barrier game e.g. ‘Colour the square red.’
Days of the week Describing routines	Today’s______ I have PE on _____s What do you do on ____?	Days of the week, weekend, morning, afternoon, evening, night	Days of the week (English/Swahili) Days wordsearch School activities Sequencing pictures of events in a school day taken with a digital camera .
Describing where things are	It's ____ the table.	In, on, under, behind, in front of, next to, between	Barrier game: drawing objects in correct position in a room from description What’s different? (cards or realia)
Describing people and things	I am _____ You are ______ She/He is______ It's ____________. She's _____________.	young/old, curly/straight, large/small, tall/short, big/little happy/sad, full/empty, heavy/light, fat/thin, thick/thin, long/short, fast/slow	Body parts (Multilingual) Job Mixer Sorting and classifying objects or pictures of people. Guess the person/object game
Identifying and describing animals	It’s a _____ It’s red It has 4 legs It’s the same/different.	Dog, cat, horse, sheep, cow, bird, lion, elephant, tiger, bear, butterfly, bee, worm, snail	Sorting and classifying animals and explaining choice. Animals of the Chinese zodiac Animals vocabulary Animal Homes (FS/KS1) Food stories
Describing and comparing weather	It’s _____ It’s hot in Summer	Months and Seasons rainy, sunny, windy, cloudy, snowy, foggy, cold, hot, warm.	Weather Whats the weather like? Months of the Year (Clicker Grid) Read thermometer and match temperature to weather.
Describing routines	I get up/have breakfast/go to school/etc at ____ What time do you _?	o’clock, half past, numbers to 12	Modelling simple sentences about own day. My Favourite Day
Comparing things (vehicles)	It’s bigger than __ It’s the biggest	Car, bus, lorry, train, bicycle, motorbike, aeroplane, ship.	Colour the transport Sorting
Buying and selling	It’s ____p It costs _____ How much is ___? Can I have ______?	Coins, pence, pounds pay, change expensive, cheap	Role play paying for items and giving change. Adding coins. Making totals.
Talking about places		Shops, Post Office, houses, mosque, supermarket, etc. Traffic lights, road, street, pavement	Virtual House Buildings Looking at pictures and naming features. Human geography 2 Look at maps and draw plan of route to school, with key.
Talking about the past		Regular and irregular forms of known verbs Yesterday, last ___, etc.	Sequencing and retelling story based on pictures Matching and sorting present and past forms of verb. Make a story Haunted House Lucky Seed