tell you or
write the names of all the body parts they know in English. If they make a
crocodile puppet, pretend to have a conversation with the crocodile!
Flashcards
and colouring pages
Younger
children especially will enjoy making flashcards and colouring pictures. Choose
a topic your child has studied at school and print out the materials for them.
Ask them to make the flashcards or read and colour the picture. If they make
flashcards, they can also play the memory game with another member of the
family.
Vocabulary
There are
lots of ways to revise and extend vocabulary at home.
Word games
LearnEnglish
Kids has got lots of picture-word matching games on many different topics. Each
game has audio, so children can also practise pronunciation. Ask your child to
play three games of their choice and to write and draw the words that they
didn't know before in a notebook.
Songs and
stories
Songs and
stories are also great for extending children's vocabulary. Our songs and
stories have preparation vocabulary games for children to play before they
watch the video, to help them learn new words. Ask your child to choose one
song and one story and play the preparation game. When they watch the video,
they can stand up when they hear the words that were in the game.
Word bags
Ask your
child to look in their school English book and choose five words from each unit
they have studied so far, or words from activities they have done on
LearnEnglish Kids. Ask them to make mini word cards by writing the words on
small pieces of paper. Put the words in a bag. Every day, for example after
dinner, take out five words and ask your child to:
• spell the words
• define the words
• translate the words
• draw the words
• tell a simple story using the words!
Sticky notes
Give your
child some blank sticky notes and ask them to go round the house and label
everything they can in English. If they don't know the word, encourage them to
look in a dictionary to find out. When they finish, ask them to give you all
the sticky notes that they checked in a dictionary. The next day, give the
sticky notes with the new words back. Can they remember what things to put them
on?
30-minute
missions
Set one of
the following 'missions' for your child to do on the website.
• Listen to three songs and choose your
favourite. Listen to it a few times and sing along. Be ready to sing the song
to us in the evening! Can you teach us the words?
• Watch three stories and choose your
favourite. Watch it a few times and decide what the main events in the story
are. Can you explain the story to us in the evening?
• Listen to three poems and choose your
favourite. Do all the tasks on the page. Practise saying the poem together with
the recording. Print the words to the poem or get the words ready on your screen.
Read the poem to us in the evening!
• Go to the Video zone section and watch
some videos. Choose one video for each member of the family that you think we
would like to watch. This evening, tell us which video you chose for each of us
and why!
• Do you think grammar is difficult?
Choose a grammar topic that you have studied at school and do the exercises.
Can you find a grammar chant with the same topic? Teach us the grammar this
evening!
• Choose three Your turn topics. Read
the questions and think about your answers. Write your answers in English as a
comment on the page [your child will need to have a LearnEnglish Kids account
and be logged into the website]. Read the answers from the other children and
reply to one of them. Go back to the pages tomorrow or the next day to see your
comments published!