This book contains 30 activities at elementary level, complete with ideas for boardwork and pictures teachers can copy. All the activities are simple and adaptable. They are particularly well-suited to teachers who teach privately and have few resources apart from a board, paper, and pens.

This book is part of the Oxford Basics series featuring Simple Listening Activities, Simple Speaking Activities, Simple Reading Activities. Each book focuses on a different skill and all four together complement each other.

The books are organized into 30 useful topic areas:

1. Greetings and introductions
2. The alphabet
3. Numbers
4. Telling the time
5. Personal information
6. Countries
7. Nationalities
8. Locating objects
9. Feelings
10. Families
11. Colours
12. Shapes
13. Parts of the body
14. Describing people
15. Clothes
16. Rooms
17. Furniture
18. In town
19. Directions
20. In the market
21. Shopping
22. Food and drink
23. Leisure activities
24. Daily routines
25. Jobs
26. Housework
27. Abilities
28. Rules
29. Describing actions 1
30. Describing actions 2

Each book has the same format with units clearly laid out in the form of an actual lesson plan giving ideas for activities, checking comprehension, pronunciation points and follow-up activities. They have easy to copy pictures and a variety of exercises for each unit.

A useful book for the newly qualified teacher working with elementary learners.

External Links

Simple Writing Activities (amazon.com)

Simple Writing Activities (amazon.co.uk)