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If you are a newly qualified or experienced English language teacher looking for support, we can provide you with teaching materials, tips and resources specifically designed by British Council teachers for use with young learners and teens.

Next update: 10 July 2009

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Primary Tips: Good Manners
In the UK we have a reputation for being polite and appreciating good manners. You can have fun with your children in many different role play scenarios, getting them to practise what to do and what not to do in England.
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Teaching Tips: Using Graded Readers
Graded readers or ‘readers' are books that have had the language level simplified to help second language learners read them. The language is graded for vocabulary, complexity of grammar structures and also by the number of words. They are made to cater for all levels from beginners through to advance.  
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Primary games: Conditional chain game
This game is good to revise and practise structures in the first conditional. The teacher begins with a sentence, for example “If I go out tonight, I’ll go to the cinema.” The next person in the circle must use the end of the previous sentence to begin their own sentence.
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Essential UK: ICT and Education
A recent independent research report (ImpaCT2) showed that ICT can help raise standards. It looked at the relationship between pupils’ use of ICT and their performance in exams. High ICT users performed better than low ICT users at key stages 2 and 3.
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