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I have been teaching groups of 5yr olds for the past 4 years and have also experienced the same problem, girls tend to be very enthusiastic and quick learners and the boys just seem to want to fight and annoy one another so its difficult to keep their attention. One thing that I have incorporated in...

Hi Kirsten

Dont know if you have already come accross this site or not, but it has downloadable levelled reading books that you could print off and have the kids colour in as well as learn the vocabulary. The link is

http://www.readinga-z.com

Hope you find it useful.

Does anyone know of an organisation that sells videos specifically for teaching childrens ESL? I use normal childrens videos to help teach basics like numbers, alphabet and songs, and these are very enthusiastically recieved by my younger students, but not really appropriate for 8 year olds who have...

Roger, Thankyou for your response and advice. I understand what you are warning against and most of my teaching method uses illustrations and TPR activities rather than direct translation, due to the age of the children and the inability of the younger ones to read. What I have a problem with is kno...

I have once again come to a stumbling block regarding the teaching of food and eating! I am about to teach the kids (aged 4-10) the names of the meals we eat during the day, but am finding it difficult as there are many variations just in the English language which I assume is territorial. For examp...

http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/sequencing.htm This link will take you to story sequenging cards that you can simply print out but they are really for kindergarten aged children. If your children are older you might try printing out clip art images that correspond with the story you are teaching. Hope...

I would suggest preparing a lot of visual things to put on display. Have an object area with range of different items which kids can choose and try to describe or simply tell you the name of it. Have picture boards classifying various subjects eg, colours, fruit, months, shapes, weather, all of thes...

I teach a group of 4 - 6yr olds and find the thing they love to do most is run around, so I use this to my advantage when teaching new vocabulary! I have pictures of words I want to teach on cards and pin them up around the room. Then it is simply a matter of shouting out the word for the kids to ru...

Have a look at this website www.funandgames.org Its not an ESL site but has a lot of good games that can be adapted and rearranged if you use your imagination a bit to be vocabulary games

I am a 30 yr old living in Portugal giving English lessons in my home to 2 groups of children (4-6yr olds and 7-10yr olds). As my lessons are an after school activity for the children I am concerned with teaching them the English Language not necessarily information about the subjects I am covering ...