This is a compilation of activities, strategies and methods of differentiation to include EAL students in mainstream English.

Useful practice on describing a picture for the whole class and particularly for EAL students.

The students decide which adjectives/phrases describe the witches and which describe Lady Macbeth. Good for EAL students as they have to decide whether the third person agreement is needed.

September 26th - it's European Day of Languages. Gap fill and match up activities, focusing on the spellings of the languages and matching them to the countries.

This is a summary for mainstream teachers with guidelines to make sure that EAL students are included in the lesson.

Here are some ideas for starter activities that require little or no preparation. They can be adapted to different subject areas.

A narrative of the famous county Durham legend, with comprehension questions and language exercises.

This is a short narrative in the past simple, with language exercises: true or false, cloze, match up and comprehension questions. It will be useful for years 5, 6, 7 and EAL pupils. My thanks to Ravensburger puzzles for permission to use this great picture. Isn't Flame a beaut?

A great picture, with a variety of suggestions and exercises on the present continuous tense.

Here are some starters/short activities on the language of Maths.

Survivors are interviewed and asked, 'What were you doing when the ship hit the iceberg?&'

56 slides - a compilation of more or less ready-to-go fun activities. Besides ideas, I have included some exercises that you can use or adapt, also website addresses where you can access materials. I enjoyed putting this together and I hope it will be useful.

This makes a good starter or filler activity. The first slide explains the activity and the second models it. Then, give each group a picture and ask them to mind map it. For extension, have them compare any two pictures.

Here is a selection of fun starters/ activities using a grid. Only one needs any preparation; you can just go with the others. Adaptable to most subject matter.

This is a list of ten great ESL websites with descriptions of what they offer.

A two page activity to get your students talking and writing about shapes. Parts of this could be used as starters and it could certainly lead to a survey: go onto the street and see how many shapes you can spot and in what circumstances. EAL teachers can use this to teach/reinforce prepositions and the present continuous tense.

Mats in various formats for teachers who have EAL students in their class. Some of these I have uploaded previously - on here they are updated. The infographic could be used as staff training: what does each image mean? There is a sentence generator and a mat for teaching new items of vocabulary which I have seen elsewhere in various forms. Hope these are useful!

Who was Richard III? Where and how was he found? Where should he be reburied?

Saltaire is a charming village in West Yorkshire. This is a little bit about Sir Titus Salt, who had it built and some exercises.

A reading comprehension, with questions and language activities. Jack and Kelsey brave the journey only to find that the school is closed.