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lettergameBeginners and elementary learners often require very careful training. At this point in their learning confidence is very important and overcorrection can create a real problem. Also vocabulary is very limited and so each word you use must be thought about.

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Letters

Letter Pack (290KB PDF)
Letter posters, cards, dotted and grids to help students learn the letters of English.

Speaking & Vocabulary

  • Pronunciation
    Includes spoken guide to common sound mistakes, handouts and tongue twisters.

  • International Phonetic alphabet
    Step-by-step instructions for making your own handouts with IPA characters and useful handouts.

  • Vocabulary Packs
    These packs provide students with essential vocabulary, activities, definitions and pronunciation guides. (There are currently packs for travel, food and rooms) 

  • Greetings (42KB PDF)
    A guide to English greetings and a simple body language guide.


  • How to make a vocab book (62KB pdf)

Grammar

  • Verb To Have (62KB PDF)
    It's almost impossible to find a simple explanation for the verb to have. So here it is without the burdens of the perfect tenses and thousands of modals uses.

  • Prepositions with time (25KB PDF)
    Prepositions with time matching cards.

  • Past Simple Test with Form Guide (57KB PDF)
    This is a Past Simple Test with common regular and irregular verbs. It also includes the form of the past-simple.

  • A Day In The Life Of An English Teacher (220KB PDF)
    Includes sample day in the life of an English Teacher with regular / irregular verb quiz. Also includes answers and a form to allow teachers and students to create their own days in a simple format that encourages use of the Past Simple.
  • Common Uncountable Nouns
    This handout includes a list of common uncountable nouns, it is really aimed at oriental users who often hear them used as countable nouns in their own countries. (53KB PDF)

  • House Plan
    Ideal exercise to revise prepositions of place and furniture lexis. It is also a good discussion exercise. (216KB PDF)

Others

  • Using Realia
    How to use real material in your lessons.

  • Top 20 Fillers
    We present the ESL Lesson First Aid Kit to revive any flagging ESL lesson.

  • Dress Codes
    Complete Lesson plan with Matching cards and exercises to assist students understanding of dress codes. (317 KB PDF)

USEFUL WEBSITES

Headway
Oxford ELT book with plenty of free resources. Also see elementary

ESL Galaxy
ESL teachers' resources, printable worksheets, board games, video and song worksheets, crosswords, wordsearch puzzles and kids English materials.

Eslflow
A wealth of materials for the Elementary learner.

esl.about.com
A good place to find resources for beginners.

Bogglesworld
A fine resource with lots of worksheets and resources.

Teachit.co.uk
Aimed at primary children, but some resources can easily be adapted.

Teaching English
British Council Website for teachers.

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