Teaching resources for low level learners on different topics to help practise speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Teaching resources for low level learners on different topics to help practise speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
ESOL and numeracy aims to develop the numeracy skills of beginner ESOL learners and to build their confidence in recognising and using numbers in their everyday lives.
This teacher’s pack aims to give beginner ESOL learners the language and skills they need to access and talk about housing.
Study skills aims to give beginner ESOL learners an introduction to study skills and language learning techniques, particularly time management, learning vocabulary and practising spelling. The activities are ideal for the beginning of a learning programme and the low level of some of the activities reflects this.
Going to hospital aims to give beginner ESOL learners practice of all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing, along with vocabulary related to hospitals.
Going to work aims to provide beginner ESOL learners with some basic vocabulary and skills to access work along with opportunity to practise the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
This lesson helps learners to write a simple text message. Learners will practise using related grammar (can and can’t), spelling (days of the week) and punctuation (capital letters and full stops) to enable them to write a short text message.
This lesson presents an example text about family. Learners match sentence halves, and reorder jumbled sentences. There are exercises to review family vocabulary and practise the spelling, and to practise am / is / are and their contractions. Finally, the learners write their own text.
This lesson is based on a video about how the different members of a family travel to work, college, university and school. Learners will practise saying and reading the names of types of transport. They will answer questions about the video and practise the word order of sentences from the video.
This lesson builds learners’ range of vocabulary in the context of shopping and aims to develop their confidence in reading and writing shopping lists. It also develops learners’ visual literacy through watching a short video called ‘Helping our neighbours’.
This lesson tells the story of a man’s everyday life, but presents it backwards. The learners watch a video of the story and then complete activities which check comprehension and practise vocabulary, sentence structure and prepositions of time.