Carol Read
ArticleAdvancing Learning: The secrets of using learning routines with young children
What are ‘learning routines’, and why should you use them with your young learner classes? Expert author Carol Read explains all, offering tips and practical advice.
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Top Trumps activities pack: 21-30
In her third and final instalment, Carol Read presents ten more activities suitable to use with any pack of Top Trumps cards. The activities are available to Staff Room members.
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Top Trumps activities pack: 11-20
In her second instalment, Carol Read presents ten more activities suitable to use with any pack of Top Trumps cards. The activities are available to Staff Room members.
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Top Trumps activities pack: 1-10
Carol Read presents her first instalment of ten activities suitable to use with any pack of Top Trumps cards. The activities are available to all onestopenglish users.
LessonAmazing world of food: Lesson 6: Food around the world
In the sixth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to recognize that people from different countries eat different food, identify and describe a typical dish from their country and understand basic issues related to world hunger. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
LessonAmazing world of food: Lesson 5: Processed food
In the fifth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to recognize the differences between natural and processed food, identify processed food that is good and bad for you and design a flow chart to show how food is processed. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are ...
LessonAmazing world of food: Lesson 4: Our sense of taste
In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to understand the role of taste buds, identify four basic tastes and relate them to different parts of our tongue, and carry out a tasting experiment. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
LessonAmazing world of food: Lesson 3: Fruit and vegetables
In the third lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to identify and describe different types of fruit based on climate and parts of plants where vegetables are from. They then design a leaflet to promote eating fruit and vegetables. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are ...
LessonAmazing world of food: Lesson 2: The food pyramid
In the second lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to identify and describe food groups and what you need to eat to have a healthy, balanced diet, recognize and understand the role of nutrients in food, and plan a healthy picnic. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student ...
LessonCLIL: Amazing World of Food
These lessons by Carol Read will build your Young Learners’ language skills while they explore the world of food.
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Amazing world of food: Lesson 1: Where food comes from
In this lesson children identify food that is imported from other countries and describe where imported food comes from and how far it travels to get there.
LessonAmazing world of food: Introduction and project map
An introduction to Carol Read’s Amazing world of food project, including a comprehensive project map with details of lesson aims and skills, language and vocabulary covered in each lesson.
LessonAmazing world of animals: Lesson 6: Endangered animals
March 3rd is World Wildlife Day. Help your students learn more about endangered animals with this project lesson for young learners.
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Amazing world of animals: Lesson 5: Animal life cycles
In the fifth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals, children learn to recognize that all animals have life cycles, to understand similarities and differences between them, and to identify and describe the life cycles of two animals. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
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Amazing world of animals: Lesson 4: Food and food chains
In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals, children learn to recognize the difference between carnivores, omnivores and herbivores, understand the concept of a food chain, and identify and sequence animals and plants in food chains. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
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Amazing world of animals: Lesson 3: Animal camouflage
In the third lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals, children learn to recognize the role of camouflage in animal adaptation and survival, to identify different types of animal camouflage and to observe and describe how animals are camouflaged.
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Amazing world of animals: Lesson 2: Animal habitats
In the second lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals, children learn to recognize that animals live in different habitats, to identify and describe key features of animal habitats and to understand ways in which animals are adapted to live in their habitat. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets ...
ArticleAmazing world of animals: Lesson 1: How to classify animals
In the first lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals, children learn to recognize the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates, classify animals into groups and identify and describe key features of animals in each group. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.
ArticleAmazing world of animals: Introduction and project map
An introduction to Carol Read’s Amazing world of animals project, including a comprehensive project map with details of lesson aims and skills, language and vocabulary covered in each lesson.
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Amazing world of animals
The Amazing world of animals, by Carol Read, is a project for Young Learners, designed to simultaneously build up learners’ language skills and knowledge of the animal kingdom. The project is divided into six lessons and leads to a final outcome of children creating a group e-zine/magazine with the title ...