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British Council: Learn English Kids: The Greedy Hippo
Read and listen to the story about the greedy hippo; then print some activities and play an online game having to do with the story.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Voyage of the Animal Orchestra
Use this story of the shipwrecked animals in the orchestra to focus on plot, characters, and sequence of a story. Included are assessment activities and flash cards.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: One Moment Around the World
Listen to a story that helps you understand time zones around the world. The story begins at 5:00 in the morning in London; as you read or listen to the story, you are asked to determine what time it is in other parts of the world using...
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British Council: Learn English Kids: The Cold Planet
Listening to a cute story about an imaginary planet helps with English comprehension and the additional activities encourage reading and writing skills.
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British Council Learn English: Jokes
A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.
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British Council: Directory of International Film & Video Festivals
An essential reference tool for finding film, terlevision, and video festivals all over the world. This directory lists details on how to enter these festivals which are searchable by location, title, category, or date.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: This Little Piggy
Watch and read along with the nursery rhyme, This Little Piggy. If you don't know how to play, you can learn here. Good for beginning readers.
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Brirish Council: Learn English Kids: Word Games: Spring
Play this naming game with words associated with spring.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Make a Skeleton [Pdf]
Cut out the parts and fasten them together to make a skeleton.
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Learn English Kids: The Leaves on the Trees
Listen to a song about how trees change throughout the seasons. Do the matching activity and print off an activity that sees how well you can follow directions.
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British Council: Learning English: Eid Al Fitr
Learn about Eid al-Fitr and its traditions in this interactive slideshow.
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British Council: Learning English Kids: Chinese New Year Festival
Learn about the Chinese New Year Festival and its many traditions in this interactive slideshow.
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British Council: Learn English: Secret Coder (Where Is Ratty?)
Crack the secret code in five messages to try to find the villainous Ratty.
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British Council: Learn English Words for Clothes
Play Teddy Dresser and learn the English words for articles of clothing. Game reinforces the learning of common words for clothes (hat, jeans, and shirt) and of more challenging clothing words too (helmet, tiara, and trousers).
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British Council: Learn English Words for Different Jobs
Play Job Mixer. Learn the English words for different kinds of jobs while helping each man or woman dress in the clothes needed for each job.
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British Council: Goldilocks Porridge Puzzle
Play Porridge Puzzle with Goldilocks to uncover words from the familiar childhood tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
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British Council: Learn English Kids: The Haunted House
Read along and listen to an animated story about two children who go into a haunted house looking for their dog. They find many animals there, but where is their dog?
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Learn English Kids: Nut Hunt
Play this concentration game that matches words with pictures.
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Learn English Kids: My Favorite Day: Christmas
Listen to a story about Christmas traditions in United Kingdom. Included are Christmas activities, a quiz about Christmas traditions, and descriptions of many children's favorite days.
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British Council: Learning English Kids: Diwali
Learn about the Hindu Festival of Light, Diwali, and its traditions.
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British Council: Quiz O Saurus
This is a short, challenging game where students study the fact cards for ten different dinosaurs on display, then answer quiz questions. If they answer all ten correctly, they get a certificate.
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British Council: Paint It! (Learn Basic English Words)
Learn the words for colors, for parts of the face, for shapes, for sea creatures, for types of clothing, for household objects, and for types of moving vehicles. Excellent reinforcement using audio and picture cues.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Christmas Day
Learn all about the Christmas holiday and its many traditions in this interactive slideshow.
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British Council: Prepositions of Place
Examples, printable activities, and two online games to use while learning about prepositions of place.