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 fully editable 9-page EAL screening form.
The aim of this screening form is to establish a student’s basic English language proficiency; to identify a student who requires EAL, EFL, ESL support and to identify topic areas a student may need to develop.
Before carrying out the screening form, it is helpful to say to the child, ‘During the task, I will circle some areas that you find a bit tricky. This is to help me know which areas I need to focus on in class so that I can make your English even better!’ By saying this, the student will be reassured from the start.
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The following 23 topic areas are assessed:
Colours
Numbers (0 - 9)
Numbers (10 – 20)
Body parts
Head / Face
Clothes
Household objects
School
Shapes
Action words
Domestic Animals
Weather words
Food - Basics
Food - Fruit
Food - Vegetables
Fast food
Wild Animals
Gardening
Positional Words
Days of the week
Times of the day
Months of the year
Professions / Jobs
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
This booklet is designed to support the teaching of AQA English Language Paper 1 and Language Paper 2 to EAL students who are of a low proficiency (Code A - C)
This booklet gives an overview of the basic English tenses with images, timelines and diagrams to help clarify their meaning. In addition, it includes a variety of exercises for controlled practice.
The EAL Toolkit provides over 50 strategies for helping learners across the Key Stages who are learning English as an additional language. Each strategy is explained and accompanied by an illustration to aid memory. The strategies are non-subject and non-age specific. No more searching for EAL ideas now they are all in one place!
A great PowerPoint presentation which I have used to lecture teacher training students (3rd year). It has also been used in schools and is ideal for staff INSET from English co-ordinators / senior leaders / SendCo / Headteachers etc.
Runs through the major challenges facing teachers of EAL / ESOL learners today and includes great ideas for working with and enriching your curriculum in school using the cultural backgrounds of these learners as a starting point.
Great for use with Great Britain / EU / asylum seeker / refugee / immigration topics or issues. Helps with PSHCE curriculum also.
A Greek myth written by myself titled Adonis and the Manticore. Includes: hero, setting, mythical creature, god, magical object.
This version has been simplied for EAL or SEN.
One that contains more advanced vocabulary is available.
Power point: Story about a boy cleaning his bedroom with this, that, these, those. Rule explained. Then an activity where the class can play together .
Worksheet: 8 questions on This and That. 8 questions on These or Those. Then a ‘correct the sentence’ worksheet.
Great for EAL or L2. Can be used to teach online.
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.
Complete beginner level unit on the topic of transport and travel for students learning English.
No prep- just print and teach.
Contains over 21 pages of activities, exercises and texts that will help students learn vocabulary about transport, ask questions at stations, recognise signs on the road as well as how to ask other people about their transport usage. Real life colour photos are used throughout - no cartoons or clip art.
Includes
reading comprehension
class survey
writing prompt
question formation exercises
transport verbs and collocations
types of transport vocabulary
crossword and more.
UK ESOL levels: Pre-Entry/Entry 1/National 2. CEFR levels: pre-A1/A1. Suitable for adults and older teens.
The Main Principles of EAL Teaching - English as an Additional Language - Humanities - Geography
This document was created off the back of research I conducted on how best to enable EAL learners to progress in a literacy classroom (with a focus on Humanities/Geography). Designed while working at a school in West London that displayed over 80 languages spoken an over 90% EAL learners, it contains a mixture of easy wins and more structured classroom approaches.
Happy to answer any questions and any feedback welcome…
jacobspong@gmail.com
Copies of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in bilingual format:
English - French
English - Urdu
English - Portuguese
English - Italian
English - Ukrainian
Plus the MASTER Copy for you to use and translate into any additional languages required via the REVIEW - TRANSLATE function on PowerPoint.
Translations might not be perfect as they have been translated using Microsoft Translations.
More translations to come in another bundle. Bundle fee covers the time required to format the script into a bilingual page presentation and translate into the other languages.
10 self-access mini-lessons to support EAL lessons with descriptive writing. Each lesson introduces an element of structure or language to build up descriptive writing skills.
PPT on the weather.
Slides 2-6: Each slide will show either the weather word or a picture of the weather.
If the word is displayed- encourage students to draw a picture of the word.
If the picture is displayed- encourage students to guess the word for the weather displayed.
Slide 7: Each picture appears on a mouse click. Encourage students to guess which weather appears.
Slide 8-12: Use the sentence strap to help students associate weather with different clothes.
This baseline test is suitable to quickly get information of the proficiency level of a potential EAL student to inform your teaching.
It consists of 100 multiple choice (3) questions.
The number of correct answers will inform about your student’s proficiency level (new to English / early acquisition / developing competence / competent / fluent).
The test is divided in 3 sections. Section A tests the general understanding of English, e.g. interactions with a question and having to choose the best answer (conventionalisms). Section B purely tests the learners’ grammatical knowledge (verbs (participles, passive voice, collocations, etc)
Resource includes:
baseline test (100 questions)
answer key
proficiency bands