Racing to English CD

Racing to English contains over 250 language teaching activities for you to print out and use with your EAL, ESOL & EFL pupils/students.

EAL, ESOL & EFL

The activities are for children & adults learning EAL, ESOL or EFL. They encourage focused language work and interactive group work. Some activities are more suitable for older learners, some for younger, but most are suitable for any age. The activities are at beginner/intermediate level.

S.E.N.

Many teachers find that the activities are very useful for pupils/students with particular needs, especially those who need extra repetition and focused language work.

Whole classes

Many of the activities are also useful in promoting language development for whole classes in primary schools. For individual staff who work across a number of schools/etc. (e.g. peripatetic EAL teachers)

Principles

Oracy/Interaction - the activities are designed to encourage interaction and purposeful, focused talk between learners.

Repetition - many of the activities are game-like so it is easy to ensure that the same activity and therefore the same language items are used many times.

Comprehensible input - the activities are based either on photo/picture input or on stories that create a meaningful context for the language items.

Clear language aims - the activities all have clear language aims and focus on particular functions and sentence structures.

FlexibilityThe activities are flexible and can be used in a variety of ways with a wide range of learners. There is no protection on the documents so you can edit them, rearrange them, simplify or add to them. So do adapt them to suit the pupils/students you are working with.