Beginner Level, Year 1-3
During the first years of English studies, the lesson periods in Sweden are short, 20-30 minutes once or twice a week, getting gradually longer. Some teachers just choose to take “English moments” at first when time allows. WebEnglish.se recommends these periods/moments to consist of songs/rhymes, vocabulary and dialogues/stories either in themes or randomly. Reading English words is not expected during the first year, but by the second year students can read and write simple words and phrases moving on to very short texts by year three.
Themes
Eating Out, 3-4
Warm-up Mr Bean - The Restaurant (8:50) Not much language but fun to watch. Let the students come up with sentences about what happened Vocabulary At the Restaurant Picture Dictionary and the same 25 words in a Matching Exercise, a Word ...
Read More
Read More
Spring is here! 1-6
Warm-up Spring Flowers Blooming (1:11) Timelapse video Spring is Here (year 1-3) Spring is Here Song (year 2-6) Songs English Time Songs, Spring Is Here (year 1-2) Spring Song (year 2-4) Spring is Here (year 2-4) Spring Arrival (year 2-4) Hungry Caterpillar (year 3-4) Let's ...
Read More
Read More
Fairy Tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes
Song THE KING´S NEW CLOTHES Sing-Along with text on screen (yr 2-4) Reading The Emperor's New Clothes in rebus form from EnchantedLearning. WebEnglish.se has adapted it for reading with only the pictures after the first example in pdf. Listening The ...
Read More
Read More
Autumn – Fall 2-6
http://howtonestforless.com/2014/09/11/12-free-fall-printables/ Click here for printable Autumnn Posters Warm-up Autumn (5:53) Play this while the students settle down Songs I Like Apples to listen to. The class can join in the chorus (yr 1-3) Autumn (Fall) Song for Children with lyrics available ...
Read More
Read More
Language Practice
This grid lists selected, relevant links to activities and materials for Beginner Level. The categories help you find suitable materials for the specific language ability you wish your students to practise.
 |
2016-03-04 BrainPOP A course in beginner English. Only the first unit on each level is free |
 |
2015-12-13 English Stories For Learning English 1 Learn English conversation for beginners (44 min) |
 |
2015-12-13 Gogo's Adventure in English Beginner's course with 5-min videos and vocabulary practice |
|
2015-12-13 Gogo's Adventure in English Beginner's course with 5-min videos and vocabulary practice |
 |
2015-12-13 How to use flashcards with young children Some good ideas for using flashcards with beginners. |
 |
2015-12-13 Ideas to play with Flashcards 2 These ideas are suitable for all ages at beginner / elementary level of English |
 |
2015-12-13 KidsEnglishLearningShows A series of 20 shows teaching elementary language forms (18-25 min each) |
|
2015-12-13 KidsEnglishLearningShows A series of 20 shows teaching elementary language forms (18-25 min each) |
 |
2015-12-13 Learn English Conversation For Kids Easy English Conversation, episode 1 |
|
2015-12-12 My Book About Me, 1-3 |
 |
2015-12-13 Using Flashcards in the Classroom A video about The Very Hungry Caterpillar and about how to make your own flashcards |
 |
2015-12-13 Winnie's House, Part 1 The story of Winnie, her cat and her house (5:40) on YouTube. Then the same with captions. |
 |
2015-12-13 Winnie's song A song to the story of Winnie the Witch |
 |
2015-12-13 5 Flashcard Games for young learners These activities are a great way to practice vocabulary and speaking with young learners |
 |
2015-12-13 ABC song Words in alphabetical order to a song rhythm (year 1) |
 |
2015-12-13 Abradagabra Vocabulary and Stories Simple vocabulary in 6 themes (click on the pictures) with a short story. |
 |
2015-12-13 English for children Four 15-min units to learn vocabulary and simple sentences. |
 |
2015-12-13 Flashcards Flashcards of various topics from MES-English.com |
 |
2015-12-13 Flashcards Printable vocabulary flashcards in several themes |
 |
2015-12-13 Learning Chocolate; Vocabulary Learning Platfrorm Picture Dictionaries with very basic beginner vocabulary with audio |
 |
2015-12-13 Learning Videos Several 2-3-min videos teaching basic vocabulary |
 |
2015-12-13 More Flashcards Flashcards with or without words, from ESL-Kids.com |
 |
2015-12-13 Object Alphabet A picture for each letter in the alphabet. |
 |
2015-12-13 The Alphabet Words in alphabetical order with a phrase to learn (year 2) |
 |
2015-12-13 Wordsmyth Kids Vocabulary with pictures in themes, and a dictionary, suitable for year 2-4 |
 |
2015-12-13 Body Parts Learn Body Parts by singing, on Youtube |
 |
2016-03-14 Brown Bear Activities 25 Ways to Play With Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (yr 1-2) |
 |
2016-03-14 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Bill Martin reads/sings Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (year 1-2) |
 |
2015-12-13 Color Songs Collection Vol. 1 Learn Colours with songs and Nursery Rhymes. The text is visible, but the words are all very basic and easy to understand in the written form. |
 |
2015-12-13 Greetings All greetings in one song. Text is first invisible but visible on the encore. |
 |
2015-12-13 Head, shoulders, knees and toes Song on Youtube. Lyrics available at www.kidsongs.com |
 |
2015-12-13 Hokey Pokey Action song, no lyrics |
 |
2015-12-13 Mama-Lisa's World Nursery Rhymes |
 |
2015-12-13 Numbers 1-10 Song of little numbers on Youtube |
 |
2015-12-13 Numbers Counting to 10 Collection Vol. 1 Kids Learn to Count with Songs and Nursery Rhymes, basic vocabulary. The text is visible. |
 |
2015-12-13 SnapSmartKids songs Songs for young beginners, no lyrics |
 |
2015-12-13 Tongue Twisters Listen and read easy tongue twisters, from Starfall.com |
 |
2015-12-13 Trampoline Song TuTiTu Song, lyrics available below |
 |
2015-12-13 TuTiTu Songs for Children (with Lyrics) A playlist of simple songs, lyrics availabe below |
 |
2016-03-04 Clifford Audio-books about a dog to read and listen to on IWB or 1:1. Year 3-4 |
 |
2016-03-04 Little Red Riding Hood Listen and read, from British Council, Year 3-4 |
 |
2016-03-04 Revolting Rhymes_ Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Watch and listen to the twisted story by Roald Dahl. No text available. Year 3-4 |
 |
2016-03-04 Spycat An animated story, with subtitles, from British Council, year 3-5 |
 |
2016-03-04 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
 |
2016-03-04 2nd tip: What to Do With That Awkward 5 or 10 Minutes of Class You Have Left ANSWER: Watch a short film or video! |
 |
2016-03-04 America's Funniest Home Videos For those who love FAILS. |
 |
2016-03-04 Beginning ESL Video Quizzes Short videos with comprehension questions made by teachers (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 Charlie and Lola A series of 36 episodes with two siblings and their everday struggles, 10-11 min each. (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 English Central Very short clips to practise vocabulary with. Requires registration (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 English Kids TV English Short Stories For Kids - English Cartoons With English Subtitles |
 |
2016-03-19 Magic English Disney 1-32 YouTube series from Disney, introducing new English vocabulary and phrases in themed 25-min programmes. Suits even younger kids. |
 |
2016-03-04 Mr Bean - The Holiday Suitcase Free English Lesson Plan for this Mr Bean clip (yr 3-6) |
 |
2016-03-04 This is Britain - School Jamie tells about his school day, with subtitles on Youtube (yr 3-6) |
|
2016-03-04 Book Report Sentence frames to help with writing about a book (yr 3-5) |
 |
2015-12-13 Children's Books Very easy books to read and listen to. |
 |
2015-12-13 Early Readers Books with limited vocabulary for students in year 2-3 |
|
2015-12-13 English Stories For Learning English 1 Learn English conversation for beginners (44 min) |
 |
2016-03-04 Free Children's Stories Choose before you show the page as there are native speaker age-levels (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 It's soo cold A story to read, from Bedtime Story (yr 3-4) |
 |
2015-12-13 Kidz Club, Reading level 1 Simple, short books to print or read online with basic beginner vocabulary. |
 |
2016-03-04 Kidz Club, Reading level 2 and 3 Simple, short books to print or read online with basic elementary vocabulary (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 Learn to Read Short e-books with pictures and easy vocabulary to read in class 2-3 on the IWB |
|
2015-12-13 My Book Report A template to write about a real book the student has read, (yr 2-3) |
 |
2016-03-04 Play a reading game Read a book by Seuss and have the kids jump every time they hear "go". (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 Short stories Stories from British Council LearnEnglishKids (yr 3-4) |
 |
2015-12-13 Starfall Books A collection of simple on-line books to read and play with |
 |
2015-12-13 Starfall Comics Very short stories for learning to read, from Starfall.com |
 |
2016-03-04 Starfall Reading A website with simple reading and listening in various levels, 2-6 |
 |
2016-03-04 Story Maker Choose words to make your own story, from British Council (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 StoryJumper Read online (IWB) or make your own book/s 1:1 (yr 2-6) |
|
2016-03-04 Storynory Fun stories to read and listen to, Year 3-4 |
 |
2016-03-04 The Giving Tree Film adaptation of Shel SIlverstein children's book from 1964, (yr 3-4) |
 |
2016-03-04 The Giving Tree with text The Giving Tree story with text to read between the film snippets (yr 3-4) |
 |
2015-12-13 The Very Hungry Caterpillar With this well-known story you can practise fruits, days of the week and the life cycle of a caterpillar. |
 |
2015-12-13 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Teaching Resources Various printables to go with the book |
 |
2016-05-08 Unite for Literacy Picture books to read on IWB (yr 2-4) |
|
2015-12-13 Winnie the Witch in 5 short episodes 1 - 1.5-minute clips of the 10-minute story Winnie the Witch on Youtube, with captions. |
 |
2015-12-13 Winnie the Witch Picture Dictionary 26 words for the story of Winnie the Witch repeated twice. Good to learn before watching the story. |
 |
2016-03-04 Wolstencroft the Bear A story to read, from Children's Storybooks online (yr 3-5) |
 |
2015-12-13 Ziggity Zoom Stories Children's Books to read and listen to |
 |
2016-03-04 Story Pics Write a story to the picture |
|
2016-03-04 StoryJumper Read online (IWB) or make your own book/s 1:1 (yr 2-6) |
 |
2016-03-04 Writing Topics Here is some help to find topics for elementary writing practice (yr 3-6) |