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British Council Learn English Kids is one of well-balanced designed websites for young learners and teachers. It provides various language learning contents for young English learners. All contents are free to use for classroom and outside of classroom.
The most attractive point of this website is that it deal with four basic skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also deals with sub-skills such as spelling and grammar. In addition to that, the website is teacher-friendly. When you go to teacher’s page, you can see there is an advanced search engine. The advance search is categorized by topic, type, age and level. So it allows you to find easily what you are interested in from the numerous contents.
British Council Learn English Kids is one of well-balanced designed websites for young learners and teachers. It provides various language learning contents for young English learners. All contents are free to use for classroom and outside of classroom.
The most attractive point of this website is that it deal with four basic skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also deals with sub-skills such as spelling and grammar. In addition to that, the website is teacher-friendly. When you go to teacher’s page, you can see there is an advanced search engine. The advance search is categorized by topic, type, age and level. So it allows you to find easily what you are interested in from the numerous contents.
- How useful to teach listening in EFL context?
To use this site for beginners in EFL context, some contents for little kids would be useful. Especially, songs are good to use for listening. All of songs have music video so that learners can learn vocabulary and sound with visual aids. It would help them to relate name, sound and object. In addition to that, most of contents have printable materials so that you can easily apply them to classroom teaching. However, a drawback can be that you need to register the websites to print out these materials.
Reference
British council 2015, English for Kids and Teens, British Council, viewed 12th April 2015, <http://www.britishcouncil.org/english/kids-teens>.
British Council Learn English Kids 2015, British Council, viewed 12th April 2015, <http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en>.
British council 2015, English for Kids and Teens, British Council, viewed 12th April 2015, <http://www.britishcouncil.org/english/kids-teens>.
British Council Learn English Kids 2015, British Council, viewed 12th April 2015, <http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en>.