Beginner A1

Did you know that you have to see a new word at least five times before you can usually use it and include it in your 'active' vocabulary?

This activity is about the uses of water. It looks at how some of us do things with water every day, while some people in some parts of the world are not able to do them.

This a semi-controlled writing activity which focuses on using the past continuous verb form to talk about events in the past. Learners write about what they were doing when they heard about an important event, either personal or public.

Support your pronunciation activities with our 44 A4 size downloadable pronunciation posters.

If learners have access to a computer outside class, they can use the interactive chart together with a dictionary to check the pronunciation of new words they meet in their own reading.

If you have an interactive whiteboard, or a computer with a data projector, the phonemic chart can be used in class to recycle and reinforce recently learned vocabulary, at the same time as revising the phonemic symbols.

Certain pairs of consonants can be problematic for some learners. This discovery activity can be used to help learners notice the difference between voiced and unvoiced consonants.

Video is a great resource to use in class and there are an endless number of ways to exploit it to create motivating, memorable classes with a high level of language production.

This is a common tool to optimise learning opportunities from mistakes learners make in written work and to encourage the editing stages of process writing.