These Polish resources have been made for Primary pupils. Click on the link to download the word lists.
If anyone is developing word lists in different languages and they would like to share them, please share with EAL Team to put onto the blog. Thanks.
Here are a couple of audio files with the Hello and Goodbye songs that are used in Teddy Talk session.
Use any song, but it’s important to include names and ask how they are:
Hello Song
Hello, hello, how are you? Piotr, Piotr
Hello, hello, how are you? How are you today?
(Wait for a response, thumbs “I’m good” or thumbs down “I’m not good”)
Goodbye Song (to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)
Now it’s time to say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye
Now it’s time to say goodbye, goodbye Piotr (or you could use the name of the objects going back into the bag)
Kodaly Hello Song
These songs have been slightly adapted from the songs used in Kodaly sessions. If you slap your knees and then clap your hands to the beat this is good for rhythm development too.
Kodaly Goodbye song
EAL Highland have developed some Smartboard Resources to support Teddy Talk and Big Bear Banter activities. Sadly, the file type cannot be imported into the Blog so if you would like a copy of any of these please contact peter.fenton@highland.gov.uk with your email address and which resource you would like to see and he will send it on as an attachment.
If anyone develops their own Smartboard resources then please share with Peter. Thanks.
Our Teddy Talk activities for nurseries have just grown up!
Big Bear Banter is a series of activities for pupils in P1 to P3 who are new to English. They include flashcard activities, story activities and using songs and rhymes. There are a host of different topics and links to further resources.
The BBB resources are now part of the New to English EAL Induction Pack for Primary. The pack now includes links to online resources eg. online flashcards, animated stories, YouTube videos, songs and interactive games.
N.B. This document is a live document which is currently being updated.
As always if you find additional resources or make up your own topics then please share them with us and we can add them to the pack.
Here are some record sheets to keep track of sessions that are taking place for Big Bear Banter in your setting.
Big Bear banter Record of Activities
For helping EAL learners with English pronunciation: a website with exercises, video, sound recordings and more…
For helping EAL learners with maths: Interactive games and downloadable worksheets, plus quizzes and online tests.
Games to help kids learn English, from the British Council
Simple games for developing English, created by an EAL teacher.
Key stage words with visuals. Useful for flashcards and sentence building.
Teddy Talk is a structured language development programme for EAL pupils in ELC. It is adapted from the original CHAT (Communication , Help and Awareness Team) programme provided by… Find out more »
