Online Learning with LCF Englishzone

Englishzone is a collection of hundreds of online activities and educational resources that help children aged 3 to 11 years old to learn English as a foreign language and provide teachers with audio visual and interactive materials to facilitate teaching.

Englishzone offers listening, speaking, reading and writing resources to learners in order to develop understanding of the English language and to provide tools for communication at primary level.
Teachers are offered many presentations and audio visual materials to construct effective lessons focusing on particular vocabulary or grammar topics.

The approach is fun, lively and caters for different learning styles in order to engage every learner.

Resources within Practicezone, Grammarzone and Juniorzone are graded according to the Common European Framework Reference (when applicable). The content of Englishzone is aligned to the CEFR’s levels (Common European Framework of Reference for languages) and currently caters for levels: “Pre-A1” to “A2” (Elementary to Pre-intermediate) .

1. I can speak English
2. All about me
3. Family
4. Animals
5. My Birthday
6. The world around me
7. My school
8. I would like...
9. Sports
10. Clothes
11. Where I live
12. I Travel
13. Holidays and Festivals

Together with an aide-memoire of the CEFR for teachers, one area of the site is dedicated to preparing for the Cambridge Young Learners Examinations (Currently “Flyers”).

Phonicszone is complemented by the Teachers Coursebook LCF Phonics Extra

The aims of LCF Englishzone are:

• To encourage positive attitudes to the learning of a foreign language
• To promote communicative language competences:
• linguistic competence (lexical, grammatical, phonological and orthographic)
• sociolinguistic competences (registers of language)
• pragmatic (functional)
• To increase children’s intercultural understanding
• To develop children’s confidence and enjoyment in communicating with a foreign language

Englishzone content is suitable for use with interactive whiteboards and individual computers or laptops:

• The interactive stories and songs are designed with controls that enable users (teachers or individual students) to view / listen to them at their own pace.
• The interactive games are mostly “untimed” and can be played by a whole class group with teams or students individually and in pairs.
• Downloadable sound bites (MP3 format) enable teachers to create their own listening activities.
• Downloadable transcripts and worksheets (PDF format) enable learners to complete short and relevant tasks at home or in school; offer teachers written language support and resources to build their own reading and writing activities.
• Downloadable coloured flashcards (PDF format) are relevant to the narrative content and can be used in many ways: displayed on screen for lesson starters, games and plenaries / printed and cut for offline activities.

Juniorzone topics:

1. Survival Kit
2. You, them and me
3. At home with my family, and other animals
4. The world around us, other cultures
5. Eat well to live well
6. Life at school
7. Urban and rural environments
8. Sports and leisure, going out
9. Travel, transport, on holidays
10. Shopping, money
11. A year in festivals
12. Work and society
13. All songs and poems
14. All stories and dialogues
15. All graded tests
16. Cross-curricular ideas