Welcome to 2018 English Language Learners Blog. Watch the space for more exciting updates during the year!!!

How to use 4/3/2 strategy to develop oral language

4/3/2 is a useful technique for developing oral fluency. Learners give the same talk to three different learners with decreasing time to do it.

The learners work in pairs. Learner A talks to Learner B and has a time limit of four minutes to do this. B just listens and does not interrupt or question. When the four minutes are up, the teacher says, "Change partners". Learner A then moves to a new Learner B. The teacher says "Begin" and Learner A gives exactly the same talk to the new partner but this time has only three minutes. When the three minutes are up, the teacher says "Stop. Change partners." With a new partner, Learner A now has two minutes to talk. During the three deliveries of the same story, the B learners do not talk and each listens to three different people. When the A learners have given their talk three times, the B learners can now go through the same sequence, this time as speakers.

Nivish and Ekamdeep

Nivish and Ekamdeep are trying their best to learn the high frequency words. They are testing each other.

Year 3 and 4 children working on their writing

We love using the picture dictionary. It helps us to spell the words we can't spell.

Year 5 and 6 students working hard on their vocabulary activity

We are learning the first 1000 words from the vocabulary list!!!

Developing oral language with buddies: Think, Pair and Share

Welcome to ELL- Term 2

We are learning to build on our oral language. First we drew pictures of six exciting things we did in the holidays and then we talked about it to our buddies.