Toolbox

1. speaking

1.1. 4 corners - question, 4 answers for each corner

1.2. sounds, speak and spell - practising saying English words with specific speaking activities and fun stories and games - helps to improve spelling on tricky words

1.3. give me 5 - teacher asks the children to name 5 different things of a category - can be done as a class, group or partner activity

1.4. speaking about me - talking about yourself, hobbies, favourite things, ...

1.5. find your twin - children read the instructions and draw a specific animal - walking through the classroom and describing the own animal - try to find the partner with the same animal

1.6. I spy with my little eye - teachers starts, students guess the object and pick the next one

1.7. find someone who - interview grid

2. listening

2.1. songs, stories & poems - great way to imrove vocabulary, get better at speaking and helps with pronunciation and language usage

2.2. Simon says - game, where children have to listen for details - helps to improve vocabulary

2.3. draw a picture with instructions - children need to follow the instructions

2.4. presenting vocabulary - receptive mode - productive mode

2.5. flyswatter game

2.6. bingo - combination of writing and listening

2.7. nursery rhymes

2.8. rhymes, chants & songs - to memorise chunks of language

2.9. listening grid - describing where things are - lateral oral work with teacher/partner - true/false

2.10. work out the order - children have a set up of pictures in the wrong order - teacher describes pictures in the correct order - children identify sequence

3. writing

3.1. drawing words - "How would you draw the winter?" - students work in groups to come up with words describing the object

3.2. quick writes - quick, daily writing is an effective way to practice writing - personal word cards or small statements - with a group or a peer

3.3. writing games - different creative writing games - peer our group settings

3.4. rhyme challenge - teacher collects with the students words that rhyme - brainstorming activity, group work

3.5. mini booklets - small folded books - to active English - for communication, work on all four skills - e.g. story re-telling, play and find, spot the differences, ...

3.6. lexical notebook - starts small and gets bigger and bigger

3.7. craphic organizers - using graphic organizers to structure writing projects, planning reserach and brainstorming

4. reading

4.1. find the secret word - each child works with a piece of text - teacher tells a secret word that they have to find and underline in the text - this word search can go on for up to 10 different words

4.2. reading to students - reading can be done in an interactive read aloud - choosing books that have content, are interesting and engaging

4.3. readers theatre - children read the story split into different characters - they move the dolls in the paper theatre

4.4. menu strategy - version of choice boards

4.5. finish the sentence - sentence starters are presented - children have to read those and find endings (writing or speaking exercise)

4.6. jumbled text - learners analyse jumbled sentences or whole texts - the pieces are rearranged in the right order