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Animal noises (A2)
Here are some questions about animal noises. Read the question. What is the best answer - A, B, C or D? Click on the answer that you think is the best! Then click 'next' for the next question. There are four questions. How many will you get right?
Are you a superhero? (A2)
Do you have Superpowers? Find out if you are a superhero! Try this quiz.
Are you a super spy? (A2)
Answer the questions and find out if you are a superspy - or if you need to go to spy school!
Circle games (A2)
These games involve the learners sitting in a circle and working as a whole class.
Circus (A2)
Match the words and pictures.
Desert animals (A2)
At the top are pictures of 12 different desert animals. Below are the names of these animals. Can you put the pictures in the right boxes?
Dinosaur puzzles: Iguanadon (A2)
Drag the pieces from the left to the correct places on the right to see the picture.
English icons puzzle (A2)
Drag the pieces from the left to the correct places on the right to see the picture.
Football verbs (A2)
Match different verbs used to describe football actions to their meanings.
Gadgets (A2)
All spies need gadgets. Match the gadgets with the descriptions.
Games: Animal Maker (A2)
Animal maker: Here is an animal. What head has it got? What body has it got? And what legs and feet has it got? Read the sentence, and then click on the arrows. Can you find the right body parts?
Games: Change places ... (A2)
This is a great activity to get students moving about and practice some vocabulary or sentence structures.
Games: Gap fill gamble (A2)
This is a game to make any gap-fill task or cloze texts (reading tasks with gaps) more exciting.
Games: Haunted House (A2)
Haunted House spelling: A haunted house is a very scary house - ghosts live there! Here is a haunted house game for you to download. You have to find six things in the house - one object in each room. Read and listen to the clues, and look for the objects. When you find all six objects you'll get a surprise!
Games: Hot seat (A2)
This is a good activity for getting your students going in the morning. It is also excellent for revising vocabulary.
Games: Make your Monster (A1A2)
Make a monster: Make your own monster, watch your monster sing or dance, and send it to a friend!
Games: Scrabble letters (A2)
This game requires a bit of preparation to prepare the scrabble letters but they can be used with all ages and levels so it may well be a good investment of your time.
Games: Sounds Fun (A2)
Alphabet sounds: What do the letters of the alphabet sound like? Practise the sounds of the alphabet with this game.
Games: Sport Mixer (A2)
Sports mixer: Lottie loves playing sports. She wants to play some sports but she needs the right clothes and things to play them. Read what she needs, and click on the arrows to see if you can find it. You will get three medals when Lottie has got the things she needs.
Games: Telephone wires (A2)
This is the classic children’s party game sometimes known as ‘Chinese whispers’.
Games: The coffeepot game (A2)
This game is good for practising and reviewing action verbs and adverbs.
Games: Transport (A2B1)
Quiz: How much do you know about transport? Try this quiz! Click on "one player" if you are playing by yourself, and "two player" if you are playing with a friend. There are ten questions - how many will you get right?
Games: Travel (A2)
Hangman travel: Here are some facts about different ways of travelling. Read each fact - there is a word missing. Can you guess what the word is? Click on the letters. If the letters are in the word then they will appear in the spaces above the sentence. If the letters aren't in the word, well, watch the monkey! Can you guess the word before the monkey gets squashed?
Games: Two word games (A2)
The following games can be played throughout the school year but are also very useful as a round up at the end of term. You can play them a few times. First play with the whole class and hen try in groups (good for mixed ability groups).
Getting student feedback (A2)
Developing 'metacognitive awareness' (understanding of our own learning processes) is an essential skill for a learner and underlines the need for them to be active participants in the learning process.
Green transport (A2)
How green are you? What do you know about new ways of transport? Try this quiz!
Halloween party (A2)
It’s Halloween! Here are some ideas on how to have a great party!
Halloween: quiz (A2)
October 31st is Halloween. How much do you know about this old festival? Here is a quiz with ten questions. Click on 'one player' if you are playing by yourself, or 'two player' if you are playing with a friend. Read the questions and choose the best answer!
Hangman: School (A2)
In this game you'll see a sentence. The sentence describes a word related to school. Can you guess what the word is?
Hangman: Sea animals (A2)
In this game you'll see a sentence. The sentence describes a sea animal. Can you guess what the animal is?
Hangman: Shops (A2)
In this game you'll see a sentence. The sentence describes a kind of shop. Can you guess what the word is?
Happy family (A2)
At the top are the names of 6 children. Below is a text describing where they are standing. Can you put the names in the right boxes?
Haunted house (A2)
Read and draw the haunted house.
Health quiz (A2)
Look after your body with food, fitness and fun!!
Horse race reading puzzle (A2)
In this challenging reading puzzle you have to work out the order that the horses finished in the race.
Instructions for a spy (A2)
In this game you'll see some instructions for a spy. But the words are in the wrong order! For example, 'Meet Agent Z at Central Station' might be written like this: 'Agent Z Central at Station. Meet'. Click on the words in the right order. How fast can you click?
I spy (A2)
"I spy with my little eye something beginning with...B". What can you see in the bedroom?
James Bond (A2)
James Bond is a famous spy. His code number is 007. He’s not a real spy of course! But maybe you’ve seen him in films. How much do you know about him? Try this activity!
James Bond (A2)
James Bond is a famous spy. But he isn't real! Ian Fleming invented the character for a series of books. There have been lots of films about James Bond. Maybe you've seen some of them? Here is a quiz about James Bond films.
Jigsaw reading (A2)
This is an approach to reading that involves the students in speaking and summarising skills. It is very useful when working with short authentic texts such as newspaper articles.
Magic gopher (A2)
It's stranger than fiction! It's stranger than fact! Is it magic? Come and find out - you just won't believe your eyes! Let the Magic Gopher read your mind!
Make your own superhero (A2)
You can make your own superhero! Choose what your hero can wear on their head, body, hands and feet, and choose a tool. Then draw your hero and write about them.
Marine animals (A2)
Match the words and pictures.
Mutual dictation (A2)
A pair work activity that I find works particularly well with learners of all ages is a 'mutual dictation'. It is especially appropriate for low level students.
My english telephone (A2)
In this activity, I demonstrate how to use the telephone and my students try it out. The class discusses how to make the phone and what materials are needed. I elicit the necessary language to make and use the phones.
On the ball quiz (A2)
How much do you know about football? Test your football knowledge with this multi-level quiz.
Planning lessons for students´preferred learning styles (A2)
It is important to vary the activities in your lessons so that you cater for students with different learning styles. The following lesson-planning framework can help you do this.
Primary tips (A1A2)
This lesson has some fun activities and language learning tasks based around the theme of Halloween. The activities include singing songs and making Halloween decorations.
Primary tips: A christmas lesson (A2)
This lesson uses the theme of Christmas to develop students vocabulary. It includes a song and some fun colouring and drawing activities.
Primary tips: At the beach (A2)
Once it starts to get warm you can easily start to talk about holidays and possible destinations. The beach is always a popular one and young children can generally, depending on where you are, relate to the excitement and freedom associated with playing on the beach.
Primary tips: Clothes (A2)
This lesson looks at ways to develop students 'clothes vocabulary' it could be spread over two lessons as the posters in Stage 5 could take quite a while a complete.
Primary tips: Easter (A2)
Children love learning about festivals and the way other people celebrate them. It’s also fascinating for them to compare how they celebrate the same festival in their own country. Easter is widely celebrated by children across the world and it is interesting from a cross-cultural point of view to develop at least a few activities related to eggs, bunnies and hot cross buns!
Primary tips: Fairy tales (A2)
Fairy Tales provide a wealth of possibilities for teaching English topics. Each fairy tale has its own magical setting and is split into several scenes. Within each scene there are sets of vocabulary that you can exploit.
Primary tips: Farm animals (A2)
Children love units connected with animals and farm animals can provide lots of fun opportunities to practise sounds and phonics.
Primary tips: My school (A2)
This area of the site is designed to help support language assistants who are working with primary age students.
Primary tips: Parts of the body (A2)
A Vocabulary lesson with Speaking and Listening for Very Young learners
Primary tips: The senses (A2)
Every child is unique and approaches learning differently. You should always vary your teaching techniques to avoid alienating the students who learn differently to the way you teach. Young learners tend to respond well to actually doing rather than just hearing your voice. Some need to touch in order to reinforce the language. Try a selection of activities and see how well your students respond.
Primary Tips: Toys (A2)
The following ideas are ideal for a post-Christmas show and tell style sessions but can be equally adapted throughout the year.
Primary tips: Transport (A2)
This tip is a selection of vocabulary building activities based on the subject of transport. I have included several common types of transport as well as touching on some less common ones that might interest your learners such as hovercrafts and horses.
Primary tips: Where are you?: prepositions of place (A2)
Although this is a grammar point and you’d be advised to limit grammar input for primary learners, you can present the prepositions as units of vocabulary. Children respond better to chunks of vocabulary that they can immediately use as opposed to lengthy grammatical explanations.
Print and do - Magic spells (A2)
The witch is making something in her cauldron. It's a magic spell. Can you help her find the ingredients? Draw a line between the pictures and the words in the spell.
Print and do: School subjects (A2)
What's your best subject at school?
Print and do: School uniforms (A2)
Practise words for a school uniform and design your own
Print and do: Sea animals (A2)
Match pictures and words, and try a quiz.
Print and do: Shops (A2)
Write the names of the shops
Print and do: Teddy bears (A2)
Learn about teddy bears
Print and do: Toys (A2)
Match words and pictures, and draw some toys.
Print and do: Unjumble the school objects (A2)
Name the things you use in the classroom
Question (A2)
Below are the answers to some questions. In each, a word or words appear in capital letters. Try and write question words in the gaps, the answers to which are the words in capital letters.
Rainforest animals (A2)
Click on some letters. If they are in the word they will go into the spaces. If they're not in the word - well, watch the mosquito! Can you guess the word before the mosquito drinks all your blood?
School: Multiple choice (A2)
Schools usually have lots of classrooms but there are other places in school buildings - Where do you eat your lunch? And where do you do sports? Guess where the children are in this quiz!
Secret codes (A2)
Find codes to write secret messages to your friends.
Shops (A2)
What can you buy in different shops? Try an activity!
Solids (MatemáticasSegunda LenguaA1A2)
Aprende a nombrar y sacar las dimensiones y diferentes formas, tales como cilindros, conos, tetraédricas, prismas y pirámides.
Songs & Lyrics: Can a Flea Climb a Tree? (A2)
Song (flash) with lyrics and worksheet: Listen to an animal song, and sing along with the words.
Spies (A2)
Spies need gadgets, or special tools, to help them do their work - for example, a backpack that they can also use as a parachute. If you want to be a spy, you need to know what gadgets can do!
Spies (A2)
What do spies do? What do spies use? You'll see some words below. Are they things that spies do, or things that spies use?
Sports mixer (A2)
Lottie loves playing sports. She wants to play some sports but she needs the right clothes and things to play them. Read what she needs, and click on the arrows to see if you can find it. You will get three medals when Lottie has got the things she needs.
Spotlight - music (Segunda LenguaA2)
This month, we introduce you to Buskers. They are a familiar sight on our streets, and play a variety of musical instruments, with varying degrees of success! Here are 18 images of some of the performers you may meet.
Story maker (A2)
This is a story about travelling in space. You'll see some questions. You can write your own answer or click on one of the pictures. When you have answered all the questions, Story Maker will make you a science fiction story.
Story telling: Carnival crime (A2)
Stories are a highly adaptable teaching tool and can be used in a variety of ways to teach a variety of skills. This particular lesson focuses on extended listening skills and getting students to actively participate in the story telling process, allowing them to use their prediction skills in a creative and fun way.
Superheroes (Segunda LenguaA2)
Match famous superheroes with their superpowers.
Superheroes (A2)
Here is a wordsearch. There are ten words in the puzzle. The words are all tools that superheroes use, or things that they wear.
Superheroes (A2)
How much do you know about superheroes? Try this quiz. Click on 'one player' if you want to do the quiz by yourself, or '2 player' if you want to do the quiz with a friend or your brother or sister.
Superman (A2)
Superman is one of the world's most famous superheroes. How much do you know about him?
Superman (A2)
What do you know about Superman? Try this quiz.
Teaching tips: Christmas tips (A2)
Christmas is an excellent theme for adding games and fun to your teaching. Most students enjoy festive lessons if your activities encourage a personal contribution about the students’ own families and customs.
Teaching tips: Festive resources (A2)
This week's tips is a pick and mix of classroom activities on a festive/seasonal theme. Secondary and Primary teachers will find there is something for them. Don't forget to check out last year's seasonal links and activities too.
Test your level: Grammar (A2)
Try this test to know how good you are at English grammar. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!
Test your level: Listening (A2)
Try this test to know how good you are at listening in English. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!
Test your level: Vocabulary (A2)
Try this test to know how good you are at English vocabulary. This test will give you a general idea about your language skills. Enjoy it!
The christmas tree (A2)
This is a seasonal information-gap activity to practise listening and speaking with young learners. The activity requires children to describe and organise objects in a picture according to their partner's instructions.
The funniest jokes in the world (A2)
Read the article and then do comprehension exercise. Finally, do some writing yourself.
The guess word (A2)
How's your football vocabulary? In this 'Hangman'-style game you can test your knowledge of football-related words
The history of halloween (A2)
Learn about the history of Halloween.
Trains (A2)
Here are eight sentences about trains. Each sentence has a gap. There are eight words above the sentences - they need to go into the gaps. Click on the words and drag them into the right spaces. Click on 'submit' when you've finished.
Treasure map (A2)
Can you break the code and find the treasure?
Tropical rainforests (A2)
Here are eight sentences about tropical rainforests. There is a gap in each sentence. You need to put a word in the gaps. There are eight words above the sentences. Use your mouse to put the right words in the gaps.
Using a story: Miko the monkey (A2)
This lesson uses a story and quiz to develop the reading and vocabulary of primary age young learners. The lesson can be done in class using the paper based materials or, to add an extra level of engagement, it can be done using the interactive materials on British Council's LearnEnglish Kids site.
We´re going to win (A2)
Watch an animated movie as you listen to 'We're Going to Win', a song for kids.
Winter sports (A2)
Winter sports. Match the names of 12 different winter sports to pictures of them.
Word search: shops and shopping (A2)
Here is a wordsearch. There are ten words in the puzzle. The words are all about shops and shopping.
Word search: Subjects (A2)
Here is a wordsearch. There are ten words in the puzzle. The words are all different subjects that you can do at school
Words: Sports (A2B1)
Matching pictures to words: At the top are pictures of 15 different types of sports. Below are the names of the sports. Can you put the pictures in the right boxes?
Words: Transport (A2B1)
At the top are pictures of 15 different means of transport. Below are the names of the means of transport. Can you put the pictures in the right boxes?
Working with classroom readers (A2)
There are many ways you can work with classroom readers that are more inspiring and engaging than standard approaches, which can have negative effects on learning.
Zoo (A2)
Here is a wordsearch. There are ten words in the puzzle. They are all animals that you can see in a zoo (or aquarium!). Click on a clue. It's a description of an animal - what's the animal? Can you find it in the wordsearch? The word could be upwards, downwards, across, backwards - even diagonal! When you have found the ten words in the puzzle click on 'submit'.
Zoo animals (A2)
In this game you'll see a description of an animal that you can see in a zoo. Can you guess what the animal is? If you think the animal is 'monkey' for example, then click on 'm' or any of the other letters in the word. If the letter is in the word it will appear in one of the spaces above the description. If the letter isn't in the word ..well, watch the monkey!
Zoo animals: Profiles (A2)
Look at the animal profiles in the zoo. Complete the notes for kangaroos and penguins then make a profile of your favourite animal!
Zoo Animals – Profiles LearnEnglish Kids (Segunda LenguaA2)
Look at the animal profiles in the zoo. Complete the notes for kangaroos and penguins then make a profile of your favourite animal!
The football culture handbook for teachers (A2B2)
"The aim of this handbook is to provide teachers with a practical guide to show how footballculture.net can be used as a teaching tool in the classroom. Its aim, specifically, is to give ideas for teaching English through football, which means that the language focus of most activities is not heavily reliant on football jargon. The 25 activities cover the 4 skills and a wide range of language levels."
Miko the Monkey (A1A2)
Resources and lesson plans. Story telling: Miko the Monkey
Story telling: Carnival crime (A1A2)
Stories are a highly adaptable teaching tool and can be used in a variety of ways to teach a variety of skills. This particular lesson focuses on extended listening skills and getting students to actively participate in the story telling process, allowing them to use their prediction skills in a creative and fun way. It draws on materials from the British Council LearnEnglish site.
Words:Everyday Activities (A2B1)
At the top are pictures of 15 everyday activities. Below are the names of the activities. Can you put the pictures in the right boxes?
Words: Jobs (A2)
Picture matching: At the top are pictures of 15 different types of jobs. Below are the names of the jobs. Can you put the pictures in the right boxes?
Songs & Lyrics: I've Got a Robot (A1A2)
Song (flash) with lyrics and worksheet: What can the robot do?