EAL Vocabulary helps children with very little English to increase their vocabulary and to learn the basic words they need in their everyday lives. The themes covered are clothes, mealtimes and things in the classroom. The words used are those suggested to us by EAL and EFL teachers. In addition to the worksheets, there are a number of coloured game sheets which can be used for many language games. Previously available through Easylearn.
A gothic creative writing worksheet suitable for EAL or SEND students. It starts with a cloze exercise where students fill in the gaps to create their own descriptive piece. It also offers adjective and vocabulary practice where students choose adjectives to describe a gothic picture.
Perfect resource for low prior attainers (LPAs) or students with Special Edcational Needs (SEN) or students with English as an Additional Language.
Ready‑to‑use EAL science vocabulary bundle to support multilingual learners in IGCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics lessons.
Chemistry 0620 EAL vocab: particles, atoms & bonding
Biology 0610 EAL vocab: cells & organisation
Physics 0625 EAL vocab: motion, forces & energy
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Provided in PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides formats for easy editing, projecting and printing
Use to pre‑teach or revisit key scientific language, scaffold written responses and help students use precise vocabulary in exams across all three sciences.
This extensive resource is designer to support newly arrived, EAL students who have very little basic English. It contains workbooks, picture prompts, model paragraphs and basic descriptions, as well as an EAL beginner pack.
The beginner pack provides a sequence to teach newly arrived, EAL students, moving from letter sounds, to basic vocabulary and sentences. It is full of useful ideas.
To compliment this resource picture prompts and some flashcards are included to provide a context for students to learn. These provide pictures of different settings EAL students will experience such as a classroom or living room. There are flashcards of the colours.
Once students have acquired these basic skills, there are two courses to learn to write simple descriptions and recounts. Each of these courses contain scaffolds, key vocabulary and paragraphs.
Updated - Three additional descriptive resources have been added. These are:
Describing a cafe
In the Distance workbook
Cat Rescue - One Sentence Paragraph Story, Storyboard and writing plan
This pack containing numerous pdfs will ensure the right support for newly arrived, EAL students!
Use this assessment tool to establish a baseline and track the progress of EAL / ESL Learners with this Comprehensive Assessment Pack. Are you looking for a robust and reliable way to assess newly arrived English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in your setting? This meticulously designed EAL Assessment Pack, aligned with the widely recognized Proficiency in English (PiE) scale, provides everything you need to accurately assess proficiency across all key language skills.
This all-in-one resource covers the four core language skills:
Writing Assessment
Alphabet Recognition & Formation: A clear task to assess a student’s ability to write the alphabet in lowercase.
Vocabulary from Picture: An engaging activity where students list visible items from a detailed street scene.
Sentence Construction: Tasks for writing general sentences about a picture and sentences using specific openers.
Storyboard Recount: A visual sequence of six panels prompts students to write a coherent narrative, assessing their ability to recount events logically.
Reading Assessment
Alphabet Reading: Assess recognition of lowercase letters.
Graded Single Word Reading: From CVC words to more challenging multi-syllable words, this activity assesses decoding and recognition.
Fluency & Comprehension: A classic fable, “The Lion and the Mouse,” is provided for reading aloud, followed by differentiated comprehension questions ranging from simple recall to extended inference and opinion.
Speaking & Listening Assessment
Differentiated Questions: A carefully structured set of 15 questions, progressing from basic personal information (e.g., “What is your name?”) to more challenging hypothetical and reasoning questions (e.g., “Imagine you could travel anywhere…”). These questions are designed to encourage communication and investigate proficiency across tiers.
Why Choose the EAL / ESL Assessment Pack?
PiE Scale Alignment: Directly linked to the UK’s influential Proficiency in English (PiE) scale (Bands A-E).
Comprehensive Coverage: Assesses writing, speaking, listening, and reading elements in one convenient pack.
Graded Activities: Tasks are designed to progressively challenge students, suitable for various proficiency levels from “New to English” to “Developing Competence” and beyond.
Clear Mark Schemes & Rubrics: Includes detailed mark schemes for each section and a final comprehensive rubric to interpret overall scores against PiE bands.
Formative & Summative Use: Ideal for informing teaching and providing targeted support, as well as tracking progress.
Empower your EAL learners on their journey with accurate and insightful assessment!
A handy guide for bilingual students who wants to enhance their subject content vocabulary. Over 50 pages including pictures with key words used in the lessons.
Table of contents include:
At school
Alphabet
School subjects
In the classroom
Classroom language
Maths—numbers
Maths
Science
Music
PE (Physical education)
History
English
RE (Religious Education)
Art
Geography
IT (Information technology)
Design and Technology
Food technology
Drama
Business studies
MFL (Modern Foreign Languages)
Language at school - practise
What’s the time in English?
Table of contents
English dates
Meeting people
Describing people
Hobbies and interests
Asking for and giving directions
My notes
Essential daily verbs in flashcards for easy practice. Each flashcard has a picture to assist students who are not able to read yet. These can be used by the teacher to point to the picture so the students understands what to do.
The booklet features practice in the following areas:
Parts of speech (Word Classes)
Spelling
Vocabulary
Punctuation
Paragraphing/ Grammar
Synonyms and Antonyms
Comprehension
Descriptive writing
Language devices
Non-fiction writing
Skimming and Scanning
Inferencing
I made this for LKS2 EAL learners. It tests their understanding through the colourful and fun book The Lorax.
It breaks down the book into 6 lessons.
It also includes:
-retrieval questions
-inference questions
-a chance to use new vocabulary learnt in the book in the final lesson
The first 3 units of EAL survival vocabulary. These activities are designed to help new arrivals with EAL settle in. They are speaking and listening activities.
This classroom vocabulary resource pack is designed to support learning with children learning to speak English as an additional language. Children will visit key vocabulary through familiar images and build up a word bank which is then used to discuss and describe images with similar themes.
This can be done individually, in pairs or in small groups. The resources can be used for one lesson or spread over a number of sessions. Once children have completed a task, these resources can be used to support them again in other lessons.
This pack contains:
Lesson plan
4 images of playparks
18 unlabelled images
18 labelled images
This is a PowerPoint lesson on Food and Drink vocabulary designed for EAL learners. The lesson includes a clear explanation of key vocabulary, along with plenty of visuals and activities to help students practice using the new words. The presentation also includes activities that can be easily printed out for students to complete during the lesson or as homework. It provides a complete learning experience, covering essential names of food and drinks and concluding with a homework assignment to reinforce learning.
This classroom vocabulary resource pack is designed to support learning with children learning to speak English as an additional language. Children will visit key vocabulary through familiar images and build up a word bank which is then used to discuss and describe images with similar themes.
This can be done individually, in pairs or in small groups. The resources can be used for one lesson or spread over a number of sessions. Once children have completed a task, these resources can be used to support them again in other lessons.
This pack contains:
Lesson plan
4 images of classrooms
20 unlabelled images
20 labelled images
A complete unit on homes, furniture and rooms for adults and teens.
No prep- just print and teach.
Contains activities, exercises and texts that will help students learn vocabulary about houses, rooms, furniture, prepositions of place, ask questions, and use adjectives to describe their homes. Real life colour photos are used throughout - no cartoons or clip art.
Includes
** reading comprehension
class survey
writing prompt
question formation exercises
adjectives to describe houses and rooms
types of houses vocabulary
crossword and more.**
UK ESOL QCF levels: Pre-Entry/Entry 1 UK SQA level: National 2 CEFR levels: pre-A1/A1. Suitable for adults and older teens.
This pack contains a selection of EAL resources suitable for newly arrived KS1 and KS2 pupils with little or no English. The focus for this pack is to help EAL beginners to learn key vocabulary associated with school. The pack almost 50 worksheets with activities linked to more than 60 words. Activities include:
Handwriting
Drawing
Matching pictures and words
Multiple choice
Simple sentence work
The pack also contains a pupil information sheet, a phonics check sheet, pictures of all the referenced vocabulary (which could be enlarged and made into flashcards) and an assessment sheet to help monitor pupil’s understanding. The pack is designed to be used flexibly. Teachers can select worksheets as needed to support EAL lessons. Alternatively, teachers could combine all the sheets in the pack to create a workbook of materials which would allow newly arrived EAL learners to work fairly independently with some teacher support and guidance.
A Christmas Carol is a visual vocabulary bank for EAL students level A (New to English). It provides students with a picture dictionary of words associated with Christmas and practice opportunities to aid students’ understanding and put the novella into context. Having learnt and practised the keywords, students are introduced to grammar and sentence structure needed to write simple sentences describing rooms (link to Stave Three).
This complete SEN/ALN/EAL Animal Farm unit includes both a printable booklet and a simplified retelling PowerPoint, designed to support students through the full novel. A fully differentiated and illustrated Animal Farm unit of work for SEN, ALN and EAL learners. Includes a simplified teacher/student guide and a realistic-image PowerPoint retelling the novel with retrieval, inference and vocabulary tasks.
Includes:
• Full contextual guide (Orwell, Russian Revolution, Communism)
• Character analysis with allegorical links
• Simplified chapter summaries and key quotations
• Retrieval, inference and vocabulary questions for each chapter
• Discussion, creative and persuasive writing tasks
• PEE paragraph scaffolds
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files with realistic visuals (no film images)
Ideal for KS3–KS4 ALN, SEND or EAL students, nurture groups or GCSE foundation English. Suitable for WJEC, AQA and Edexcel courses.
Please check my shop for other adaptations and support materials for a range of GCSE texts.