LearnEnglish
Kids is the British Council's website for children around the world
who are learning English as a second or foreign language. This site
has free resources for children to use at home, either independently
or with family members or friends. You can recommend activities from
this site to children to do for homework, or during school holidays.
You can also recommend the Parents section
of LearnEnglish Kids to parents and carers of children.
What
you just read is the introduction of the Teachers page of the British
Council's website for children who are learning the English. The
website offers many different ways to help those children in their
learning, both in school and at home. I'll present the
different categories of activities that can be found.
Kids games
This section offers games where the children can practice certain
language skills while having fun. The games are divided into five
different groups; fun games, learn words, find words, play with
words, and spell words. As the five categories suggest, many of the
games can be used to learn new words and how they are spelled. They
can also be used to practice the structure of sentences and the
children's understanding of instructions in English. This can be done
at different level of difficulty, for example by matching words with
a corresponding pictures, playing Hangman, answering quiz questions
or placing given words in the correct order. The games are not only
made with different difficulties, but also with different themes or
subjects of interest such as days and months, animals, and sports.
Listen &
watch
This section contains the four categories songs, short stories, kids
news and tongue twisters. All four categories offers animated videos
for children to watch and listen to and thereby practice their
listening skills. The videos covers many different themes and
subjects of interest for children at different levels of knowledge in
the English language. As it is written on the teacher's page, there
are free worksheets to download and use in the classroom connected to
many of the videos.
Read & write
In this section, you can find worksheets to practice the children's
writing and reading skills. Those worksheets are free to download and
use in the classroom.
There
is a link to a sub-page called 'word of the week' where different
words are being taught by written sentences where the words are used,
and thereby explains the words. Every word comes with a video where
children who speaks different accents says the word and the written
sentence mentioned before. The section does also offer the children
to write texts within different topics and send their writings as a
contribution to the web-site.
Make
This section gives the children opportunities to create things, both
online and with their hands. There are categories as 'story maker',
'style a hero', and 'comic strip maker' online. There are arts and
crafts worksheets to download and use in the classroom. These
worksheets have instructions of how the make different things such as
'a spring hat', 'Little Red Riding Hood finger puppets' and 'animal
masks'. Every activity comes with a video of a child who are showing
and telling how to make the different artworks.
Speak &
spell
The super space spies Sam and Pam want to learn to speak and spell
English, and they want children to learn with them. There are four
sub-categories where Sam and Pam listen to sounds, learn to speak,
learn spelling rules and learn to spell tricky words through
worksheets and weekly spelling tests.
Grammar
The young learners of English are given help to learn grammar rules
through games, quizzes, videos, worksheets, and tests.
Little kids
This section offers activities for pre-school teachers, parents of
very young children and older siblings who wants to teach these
children English. There are games, word games, songs, stories,
crafts, and Let's go Pocoyo where the children can learn English with
Pocoyo.
Others
Except from all the activities for children that can be used either in school or at home that I have written about
above, there is a parent's page where parents are given ideas of how
to help their children to learn English. All the activities their
children have access to are easily found here, as well as a list of
websites with more online resources.
To access everything on the website, children, teachers and parents
need to have an account to log onto. You need to log on to access
the worksheets.
Except from the LearnEnglish Kids, there is also LearnEnglish Teens
and LearnEnglish adapted for adult learners. There's a
TeachingEnglish section available as well.
LearnEnglish Kids:
The
LearnEnglish Teacher's website:
/Therese
Hi Therese!
ReplyDeleteI found it very interesting to read about your website Learn English Kids. I have never heard about it before. It is always nice to get tips on new sites or new ideas. Learn English Kids seems to be a serious site because it is the British council who has made it.
When I looked at site, I found a lot of interesting things to do. I didn´t like all the exercises, but most of them were really good. The page is full of color, which I think many children will like. One of the best things is that you can use it both in school and at home. The page contains such a variety of exercises and things to do. I especially liked the short films. They were just the right length and with native speakers (I think). I am sure that I will use this site in my own lessons. I will also write in my weekly letter and recommend the parents that they can look at this side at home.
I liked that you wrote a little about every part that is on the webpage, because you woke my interest for it, before I have seen it.
A small suggestion is that I would have liked you to write if you have a favorite part on the pages or if you have tried it in your class and what your students thought about it. It would also be interesting if you had found any downsides with the website.
Thank you for given me this great tip of a useful website.