Level 1

St Patrick’s Day is now celebrated throughout the world, not just in Ireland, with the largest parade taking place in New York City.

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.

This is a good way to help kids learn and review their vocabulary. It really helps them with the alphabet and spelling.

A small box, such as a shoe box, is a very useful tool in the classroom - it can become a vocabulary box. You also need some small blank cards or pieces of paper.

This is a good vocabulary activity to use with younger learners.

This is a small collection of five games you can use to promote turn taking and collaboration in the classroom.

There are lots of ways to use flashcards. Here are just some of them.

Slap the board is an energetic vocabulary activity - it can be used for revision, presentation and testing - which involves students running to and hitting the board.

A short but fun way to revise comparatives and superlatives is to give students a blank piece of paper and ask them to draw an easy to draw object, such as a star, a tree, a flower or a house on it.