url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC0QFjAC&url=http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/B369-Young-Learners-Activity-Book_v10

TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book
Activities
Alternatives
• Instead of writing individual stories, the children could work in pairs or small groups.
This would work well if you have large or mixed ability classes.
• The children can be told that they have to include all the sounds in their story.
• The children have to write the story around just one sound.
• The children are given a limit on the number of sounds they can use (three or four for
example) in their story.
• When the children read their stories, classmates can make the sounds at the appropriate
points in the story.
• If you want to extend this activity, the children can be asked to illustrate their stories with
pictures, either with their own drawings or by cutting and pasting pictures from magazines etc.
and the stories can be displayed on the wall.
• Alternatively, the children can collect all their stories in a book and make copies for parents
and other teachers. If appropriate, they can sell the book for a small fee.
No resources?
If you do not have access to audio equipment, you could make the sounds yourself, or put the
children into groups and ask them to think of some sounds they imitate. The other children listen
and guess the sounds.
You can think of sounds that you can imitate, such as the wind blowing, or a door bell ringing.
You could use pictures instead of sounds. The children have to name the objects in the pictures
and then write a story including those objects.
© British Council 2012
69