What resources do you have for ESL/ESOL/EAL?

Welcome to our new Education Perfect EAL course! These resources are designed to provide level-appropriate practice of core language learning skills, as well as basic Getting Started in EAL lessons, and additional advanced EAL content for more advanced students. Let’s explore!

Explore our available courses

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Ensure you have toggled to the ESOL/EAL subject. Folders containing the below courses can be found under the Featured content section.

Here’s what’s available:

Ideas for using the course

Here are some ideas on different ways you can integrate the EP EAL course into your teaching programme:

• As part of your EAL programme, assign your students one (or a series) of EP EAL lessons each week covering one or a combination of skills. Learn how to assign a Task.
• If you have different abilities within your class, while you have teacher time with one group of students - assign independent EAL skills work to other groups of students in the class relevant to their level. Learn how to assign Tasks to specific students.
• If you have a group of students at a similar level, complete the EP lessons as a class on the projector together, then have students follow up on their individual devices. Some quiz questions in lessons can be completed as class games!
• Structure class time to have one lesson focused on a different skill each day of the week. Use the EAL lessons as the focus for these lessons or as supporting activities.
• Use an EP EAL lesson as a learning station in a series of station rotations or activities on a choice board. Learn how to retrieve a link to add to an LMS or choice board.
• Assign a Quiz or Diagnostic Test to determine the most appropriate starting level for students. then, assign recommended tasks based on their results. 
• Once students have mastered a series of lessons, assign a Quiz based on these to assess their progress. 
• Work individually: Assign EP EAL tasks for students to work on individually at their own pace. 
• Work in groups: Students can work in pairs or groups on the EP EAL tasks. 
• If you use a flipped learning model, assign level-appropriate reading tasks to be completed by students outside of class time. Ask students to complete an EP lesson before attending a Zoom session or following a Zoom session as a pre or post task.

Ideas for using the Reading course:

Try the following within a levelled group, or with an entire class (if at a similar level): 

• Pre-reading Activities: Complete some of the pre-reading activities in the lessons together as a class before students complete them independently.
• Work together as a class: You can work through texts as a class with the text on a projector. Teachers can read through the text, or the students could take turns reading out loud. Then, work through the questions together as a class.
• Extension activities: For higher level students, ask students to write their own version of the text, changing some of the details. Students could also rewrite the text in their own words or present a summary in the target language of what the reading passage was about, perhaps offering their own experiences or opinions on the points raised. 
• Conversation based on the text: Ask students to have a conversation based on the reading text. To prepare them for this, brainstorm some questions as a class. 
• Write new questions: You could ask students to write their own questions based on the text for other students to complete or to write their own new texts.
• Ask students to keep a reading log where they record the word surge stories that they have read and how they found them/what they thought of them.

Ideas for using the Speaking course:

• Complete at their own pace: All of our speaking activities can be assigned to the students and they can complete the activities at their own pace either in class or at home. The activities work best if the student has headphones with a microphone; however, this is not essential. This provides a safe but meaningful way for students to practise spoken language without the necessity for them to produce in front of the class.
• Play back: When students complete the speaking questions, they can play back their answer and listen to what they have recorded. They can re-record until they are satisfied with their responses. Teachers can also listen to what students have recorded and provide feedback. 
• Different options: All of the first questions lessons could be used in conjunction with other speaking activities you might be doing in class, such as speed dating and role plays. You could use our speaking tasks as scaffolding prior to doing the other tasks, where the students self assess before doing other “live” speaking tasks or vice versa.
• Speaking Assessments: Our platform can be easily used for speaking assessments, either by assigning our speaking tasks as an assessment or by creating your own speaking assessments within the system. This is easy to set up and a really effective way of keeping a record of students' speaking progress. Complimentary training is available to help teachers set up these assessment tasks. 
• Create your own speaking activities: Teachers are also able to develop their own focused activities where students are required to produce or recite language samples, thus personalising their programmes. Complimentary training is available to help teachers acquire these skills.
• Different management options: If it is too noisy in your classroom having everyone record their speaking practice at once, you could consider the speaking activities as one activity in a “learning stations” rotation or you could have some students working outside of the classroom - in the corridor, in spare rooms, outside or in any other spare space you might have available - whichever is the most appropriate for your school.

Additional resources:

EAL Subject support:

In the EAL subject support folder you will find a series of lessons which include an introduction to some core vocabulary to assist students with their learning in Maths, Science and Humanities. 

Advanced level English content

The advanced level English folders are suitable for students who have been studying English for several years. There are large banks of lessons available to cover the following topics: 

• Vocabulary and spelling
• Language conventions
• Language features
• Reading strategies
• Reading text libraries
• Writing

Acknowledgement:

Much of our latest EAL content is based on the Interactile Learning textbook series.