Category Archives: Teaching young learners

Some more nice games for It is/ They are

Posted on 16/04/2013 by alexcase

I did these with plastic animals, but you could do similar things with plastic cutlery, body parts, classroom objects, etc etc. How many doing what where? With the rest of the class’s eyes closed, one student or the teacher hits … Continue reading →

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30 young learner index pages now totally updated

Posted on 14/04/2013 by alexcase

Index pages for 7 textbooks and 23 language points, including worksheets, flashcards, stories, songs and online games: Young learner games, worksheets, songs, stories and flashcards pages

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New worksheets for English Land 1 and English Land 2

Posted on 08/04/2013 by alexcase

These books are the American English versions of Pearson’s English Adventure and follow a fairly standard syllabus of colours, numbers, toys, clothes, basic adjectives etc, so hopefully useable for all kinds of other courses too. Arranged here by how generally useful … Continue reading →

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Supplementary materials for Everybody Up 4

Posted on 10/03/2013 by alexcase

Ten photocopiables by far with extra fun and useful language for this highish level primary text, and many more coming soonish: Everybody Up worksheets

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27 links for teaching animals

Posted on 23/02/2013 by alexcase

Two articles of mine on the topic plus worksheets, flashcards, songs, online games and stories together for the first time here: Animals teaching ideas and materials

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Teaching prepositions to kids

Posted on 22/11/2012 by alexcase

Updated 6 October 2017 There are a few issues and a whole bunch of fun and useful games, so I’ve recently written five(!) articles on the topic of just prepositions of position: Teaching prepositions to kids articles How to teach prepositions of … Continue reading →

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Another great game for “What’s your name?”/ “How old are you?” etc

Posted on 19/11/2012 by alexcase

Saw a great toy yesterday which is a three metre long plastic pipe with phone headsets at the end: Talking tubes Would be perfect for handing around the class to practise questions and answers through, first with the teacher holding one … Continue reading →

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The most important part of your YL lesson prep

Posted on 18/11/2012 by alexcase

If I have one tip for teaching kids a substantial amount of English, it would be starting all lesson preparation by printing out 20 or so words on the topic of the day, be that sports when doing can and … Continue reading →

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Two reactions against English in primary schools

Posted on 13/10/2012 by alexcase

Indonesia scrapping primary school English lessons and Quebec toning them down.  

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Making personal questions for young learners fun

Posted on 29/09/2012 by alexcase

This was a guest piece of mine on a blog that recently disappeared (rather than just moving and becoming annoyingly inconvenient like mine has done). Good timing if you’re still in the first few classes. The challenges of teaching young … Continue reading →

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