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Welcome to the new Language Assistant site! There are four areas to help you as an English Language Assistant:

Essential UK: lesson plans on UK topics
Games: fun ideas for all ages and levels
Primary Tips: ideas for primary age classes
Teaching Tips: activities for secondary classes

Be a Language Assistant

We can offer you the opportunity to work as a Language Assistant in the UK or in one of the 20 countries that are part of our scheme. In 2007-08 we sent nearly 2,200 English Language Assistants overseas.

Find out here how you can improve your language and teaching abilities while experiencing a different culture.

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LA essential UK Christmas Theme: Christmas Lexical area: Christmas vocabulary LA teaching tips Christmas tips Introduction Christmas is an excellent theme for adding games and fun to your teaching. Most students enjoy festive lessons if your activities encourage a personal contribution about the students’ own families and customs. LA games Mystery objects The game is good for revising lexical sets and is useful for practising using adjectives. It can be teacher led or played as a team game. LA games What's my line? The classic guessing game! Players take it in turns to ask another player questions in order to discover their job. LA teaching tips Fluency activities for lower levels Developing spoken fluency with learners at low levels can be very challenging, but here are some tips and activities which may help. LA primary tips Creepy Crawlies This can be done over a series of lessons as part of an ongoing project, dedicating each lesson to a different insect, or otherwise as one lesson. Children love squeamish subjects so you may find that they want LA games Back writing This is a good activity for restless younger classes. LA essential UK Royalty Theme: The Royal Family in Britain Lexical area: Family


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