EAL (English as an Additional Language)

Dear Parents & Carers,

Please find below a list of topics and websites relevant to home learning for newly arrived children. Good luck with your English learning and have fun!

 Mrs Hoad and Mrs Kuras

Online stories in different languages

We hope you do not forget to read in your first language. It is just as important as reading in English.  To help you with this, we have prepared some website links below with bilingual online stories. Have fun!

More online stories from Storynory.com and Starfall.com

https://uk.mantralingua.com/

www.worldstories.org.uk

https://bilingualkidspot.com/2019/02/1 /free-online-books-for-kids/

https://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library-translations.htm

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

 https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=el

Topics:

• My Family
• My school: school objects, school subjects
• My body: body parts
• Feelings and emotions
• Clothes: for cold and warm weather, school uniform
• Food: vegetables, fruits, meals
• Animals: farm, wild, pets, animal parts
• House: rooms, house objects, prepositions of place
• Actions (verbs)
• Maths language: shapes, Maths operations, telling time, money
• Describing people nad objects: basic adjectives, opposites, synonyms
• Weather: types, weather forecast
• Seasons
• Holidays
• Jobs, places of work
• Sports: types, sport equipment
• Transport: vehicles, travelling
• Places
• Directions

Traditional stories:

• Little Red Hiding Hood
• The Three Little pigs
• Cinderella
• The Frog Prince
• Sleeping beauty
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Gingerbread Man
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• The Magic Porridge Pot

Websites with activities:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/english-as-an-additional-language-eal (communication and interaction, dual languages resources, grammar and vocabulary activities) the code for parents: UKTWINKLHELPS

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/ (interactive games, grammar and vocabulary activities, stories)

http://www.english-4kids.com/ (interactive games, board games, worksheets)

https://www.youtube.com/ for vocabulary songs, stories

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html (grammar and phonics)

https://www.fredisalearns.com/ (signing in required)

http://www.communication4all.co.uk/http/Traditionaltales.htm