Young Learners and Teens  

Young Learners
Support materials for teachers of young learners and fun activities for pupils to do at school or at home.

Teaching children English in a dynamic, fun and effective way  
Teaching children English

Felicity O'Dell discusses ways to accommodate diversity when teaching advanced learners.

Big Google is watching you  

This reading activity will help your students to understand key vocabulary in an article taken from a leading UK Business magazine, Management Today, and to discuss current issues of privacy and data protection on the Internet.

Jojo's Story  
Jojo's story

These full lesson plans accompany the Cambridge English Readers series. Each lesson provides and focuses on extracts from one of the Readers. Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Jojo is playing in the fields when soldiers come and kill everyone in his village.

The magic of fun and play  
book jacket by same author of The Magic of Fun & Play

In the following article, Derek Strange, author of New Chatterbox, argues that children should have 'serious fun' with English.

Connect  
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Your free guide to using computers and the Internet in the English language teaching classroom

Confusing words  
Confusing words
The following lesson plans, based on Word for Word, all aim to explain the difference between words that are confusing because they look alike, sound alike or seem alike.
Straightforward - Compounds around you  


Taking what good teachers do in the classroom as the basis of its approach, Straightforward is an integrated skills series with a transparent structure, making it an easy-to-use course for students and teachers alike.

Straightforward - Interactive Word Grid  

Taking what good teachers do in the classroom as the basis of its approach, Straightforward is an integrated skills series with a transparent structure, making it an easy-to-use course for students and teachers alike.

Inspiration 4 - Culture  

Your Culture
This lesson looks at three forms of expressive art that are associated with particular countries and cultures.

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