Debating topics relevant to the news can be a high-interest way to engage English language learner. The link below has some video clips to see this in action.
Found this in my news feed today. Some great ideas for reflection as well as many other activities. Also an interesting lesson on “The lost Thing” by Shaun Tan.
To link with the session we are running on Thursday, here are a couple of useful links. There’s a lot activities that can be used to teach vocabulary. Over the next few months, we’ll aim to share the most effective of these.
This is a brilliant unit with a range of activities to build vocabulary as well as sentence use in EAL learners. The template makes it easy to adapt other units.
Sometimes when we look up a word in the dictionary, the definition can just make things even more confusing. This dictionary has plain English definitions – so much easier to use!