Lesson
plan blank
(MS Word 34 KB)
Accessing the Sunderland materials on the VLE
(PDF 608 KB)
Creating
effective worksheets
(PDF 925 MB)
How to make PowerPoint
presentations
(PDF 348 MB)
Primary FLA training session
(MS PowerPoint 2.4 MB)
Right-click on the link and download the presentation to view it. Rather than playing the slideshow, look at each slide individually and read the notes underneath it.
"What's your name?" cards
(MS Word 455 KB)
These activities are popular with primary-age children and have worked well:
- games with flashcards
- noughts and crosses
- Simon Says
- Lotto
- Hangman
- matching cards / Pelmanism
- songs
- storytelling
- reading Big Books
- cooking and eating
- colouring, drawing and labelling in the target language
- crosswords
- worksheets with pictures to support the text
A lesson plan for English speaking countries around the world
Most widely spoken world languages
British Council lesson plan for English speaking countries
Some other resources and websites that you might find useful:
National Advisory Centre for Early Language Learning (Nacell)
National Centre for Languages (CILT)
QCA Schemes of Work for KS2 - updated schemes are due to be published Spring 2007
Websites for children:
The Young
Pathfinder series of books is published by CILT specifically
for Primary school teachers. Some useful titles include:
YP12 - Working together: Native speaker assistants in the primary school
YP9 - The literacy link
YP3 - Are you sitting comfortably ?: Telling stories to young language
learners
YP7 - Making the link: Relating languages to other work in the school
YP6 - Let's join in ! Rhymes poems and songs
The Pathfinder
series of books is for Secondary teachers. A useful book is
Pathfinder 32 - Foreign Language Assistants: a guide to good practice