ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
WHAT WILL I LEARN? You will build on your knowledge of English by: • reading books, graded readers and graded magazines in your spare time; • using games and activities that develop your academic vocabulary; • doing exercises to improve your grammar; • talking about things you do in and out of school to build up your confidence in using and speaking English; • taking part in other language-based activities to help you learn more about Britain and the British way of life. You will be in small groups with pupils from your own year. If you need help with understanding the English and vocabulary of your other subjects, your EAL teacher is there to help you.
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MR L CONNER
The EAL Centre is located in the heart of the English department. It is equipped with a wide variety of reference, reading and audio-visual materials designed to help all pupils in the school for whom English is not their mother tongue to improve their language skills and competence so that they can derive the maximum benefit from an education delivered in English. For many pupils from overseas it is appropriate that they should receive extra support and tuition in English rather than take up a modern European language. English as an Additional Language is therefore taught in those periods on the timetable when the other pupils in the year group are learning another modern language.
YEAR 7 You will spend a few weeks getting used to talking and reading in English. You will be given a great deal of help with new words but you will have to use English all the time. The main focus of this year will be to develop your overall English language ability and be working between level A2 and B1 of The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. You will do a number of reading activities about interesting subjects which will focus on developing overall
