English for migrant workers

Alphabet

Alphabet 1 (A, B, C...)

Alphabet 2: Easy game to practice the Alphabet (video)

Numbers

Counting Numbers 1: Easy game to learn numbers 10-100

Counting Numbers 2: Lucky numbers

Possession

Vocabulary: Parts of the Body (I have...) (video)

Play games to practice I have got or haven’t got

Greetings

Listening 1: Listen to a song ‘Hello, hello, hello!’ to learn to say Greetings (video)

Practice the song Hello, hello, hello! (PDF)

Listening 2: Song and game to talk about your family (my, your, his, her, our, it’s) (video)

Games to learn ‘my, your, his, her, our, it’s'

Text messages

Text messages 1: Read and write simple Text Messages to invite a friend

Text messages 2: Learn how to write short messages using can and can't, spell days of the week and use capital letters and full stops (video)

Text messages 3: Learn new words and phrases with the word 'go' and use in text messages

Text messages 4: Read text messages to get important information and learn new words about school

Time

Telling the time 1: Listen to some students making plans about a group project (audio)

Telling the time 2: Watch a video and play games to learn about the clock (video)

Telling the time 3: Watch a video to learn how to talk about time in different parts of the world (video)

Spelling and vocabulary

Word endings

Missing letters

Common spelling mistakes

Silent letters

Spelling the sound ‘sh’

Homophones

Words ending in 'e'

‘I’ before ‘e’ rule (audio)

Spelling the 'k' sound

'ch' and 'sh'

Getting to know students

Grammar: Question forms

Grammar: Here’s the answer, what’s the question?

Grammar: Present simple questions

Listening: Practice Asking Questions (audio)

Describing people (appearance and personality)

Grammar: Present simple

Listening: Who’s who in the office (video)

Listening: Family pictures (audio)

Listening (long): Nationalities and characteristics (audio)

Photo captions

Vocabulary: Appearance

Writing: A Personal Profile

Writing about my family

Describing a picture

Grammar: Present continuous(video)

Listening: Family photos (video)

Clothes 1: Match words and pictures

Clothes 2: Match words with pictures

Colours: Learn the names of colours

Travelling and free time

Listening 1: Talking about Past Events (video)

Listening 2: Talking about Past Events (video)

Listening 3: Learn Camping and Holiday vocabulary (video)

Listening 4: Planning a Holiday in France (video)

Vocabulary 1: Talking about Transport 

Vocabulary 2: Talking about Holidays 

Writing: My last holiday

Vocabulary: Food

Photos

Listening: Listen to people talking about Past events (past continuous) (audio)

Vocabulary: Prepositions of time (video)

Retelling a story

Listening: (long) Last weekend (audio)

Comparing habits

Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives (video)

Listening: He’s a pest! (audio)

Listening: Large numbers: Facts and figures (audio)

Vocabulary: Routines

Cities and memorable activities

Listening: Have you ever? (audio)

Vocabulary: Places in town

Vocabulary: Transport

Writing: An accommodation form

Lifestyle

Grammar: How to use the word 'too' (audio)

Listening: Life in New Zealand/cats or dogs (audio)

Vocabulary: Body parts 1

Vocabulary: Body parts 2

Positive or negative thinkers

Listening: Learn how to use the verbs ‘make’ and ‘do’ (audio)

Vocabulary: Weather

Promises

Grammar: Future forms (video)

Listening: Changing plans (audio)

Dreams

Grammar: Verbs followed by –‘ing’ or ‘to

Reading: Dreams

Vocabulary: A few

Animals

Grammar: Conditionals (video)

Topic development (reading): Animals in the city

Vocabulary: Animals

Vocabulary: Farm animals

Phobias

Grammar: Present perfect

Grammar: Adjectives ending in ‘ed’ or ‘ing’

Topic development (reading): The only thing to fear is...

Life events

Grammar: Present perfect, simple and continuous

Listening: An invitation to a party (audio)

Reading: Good night stories for rebel girls

Writing: Someone I admire

Sports

Listening: What do you like doing? (video)

Listening: A race (video)

Vocabulary: Moving

Vocabulary: Football

Daily schedules and routine

Listening: Queueing (audio)

Listening: Could you? Can you? (audio)

Vocabulary: Daily routines

Vocabulary – daily routine

International inventions

Passive form 1

Passive form 2 (video)

Reading: Technology

Learn vocabulary for talking about your workday routine 

Talking about your work (Video) 

Vocabulary: The hospital 

Visiting someone at the hospital

Asking for and giving directions in a hospital

Reading a letter from the hospital about an operation

Describing someone who may be missing (how a person looks)

Learn vocabulary about everyday routines (video)

Reading job adverts and finding a new job 

Talking about feelings and using the verb to be (I am happy) 

School vocabulary for your child

Filling in school forms for your child

Reading text messages from school

Learn vocabulary for making online payments

Learn some basic vocabulary related to refugees

Airports and traveling

Grammar: Future plans

Reading/Vocabulary: An airport departure board

Reading: A travel guide

Vocabulary: Air travel

Arrangements

Present continuous for future plans

Listening: Changing a meeting time (audio)

Writing emails to make plans

Writing messages to make plans

Writing messages to cancel a plan

Word games and paraphrasing language as a learning strategy

Grammar: Defining clauses

Listening: Quiz, Meeting new people, Bollywood film

Listening: Four conversations (audio)

Housework

Grammar: Just, yet, already and still

Shopping experiences

Grammar: Present perfect

Grammar: Past simple

Listening 1: Shopping in London, and the word “too” (audio)

Speaking skills: Buying New shoes (video)

Vocabulary: shopping

Shopping

The weekend

Grammar: something/ nothing

Grammar/vocabulary: Adjectives ending in ‘ed’ and ‘ing'

Listening: Weekends away (audio)

How to get by...

Grammar: Verbs followed by the infinitive

Grammar: Verbs followed by ‘ing’ or ‘to’

Reading: The Martian

Reading: The Life of Pi

Watch videos about getting by in foreign country (video)

Watch a video about taking care of animals (video)

Happiness

Grammar: ‘ing’ forms

Grammar: Verbs followed by ‘ing’ or ‘to’

Listening 1: Talking about pets and animal lovers (audio)

Language learning

Grammar: Adjectives and prepositions

Reading: Study skill tips

Reading: English course prospectus

Writing: An expression of interest

Problems and advice

Grammar: Modals of suggestion and obligation

Grammar: Question forms

Topic development: I’ll pay (video)

Writing: An email explaining a problem

When things go wrong (Murphy’s law)

Grammar – verbs in time clauses and ‘if’ clauses

Giving directions, and some department store vocabulary (video)

Reading and reacting to a story

Grammar – possessive pronouns

Listening 1: Talking about travel experiences, Frida Kahlo, and ‘being green” (audio)

School days

Learn how to talk about habits and routines in the past (‘used to’)

Listening: Talking about exam results (audio)

Reading Topic: A report from a teacher at the end of term 

Learn some basic vocabulary related to school

Choices and decisions

Grammar: ‘May’ and ‘might

Similarities and differences

Grammar: Quantifiers with count nouns

Grammar: So and neither/nor

A news story

Grammar: Adverbials of time

Grammar: Past perfect

Listening 1: Discussing the news (audio)

Gossip

Grammar: Reported speech: statements

Watch a video about going to the pub and alcohol culture in the UK (video)

Quizzes

Grammar: Question forms

Grammar: Questions and negatives