How can learning a new language be as interesting, effective, and natural as possible?  The answer is by PLAYING. 

Following the Italian briefcase and the Matematics briefcase, comes Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase, with fun games of varying difficulty levels to allow primary school children to acquire, consolidate and improve their English language skills.  

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THE BRIEFCASE CONTENTS

Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase contains:

The Activity Guide with indications and advice for using more than 20 activities with different levels of difficulty

10 decks of coloured cards
(for a total of 550 cards)

A two-sided game board:
«Words builders» and «Carrie Gary Mary»

6 tokens and 1 dice

Thanks to the materials contained in Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase, it will be possible to organize numerous games and activities for learning English, to be played in groups or autonomously. 

In the Activity guide, each of these are indicated:

• the materials to use;
• the specific learning objectives;
• the level of difficulty, from 1 to 4, and the grade of reference;
• the self-correcting mechanism (if present);
• additional indications and advice.

Leaf through some selected pages from the activity guide that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

TEACHER LARISSA’S DECKS OF CARD

Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase contains:

HAPPY FAMILIES

Members of the family

WHERE IS MY PET?

Prepositions of place

MANY PLACES AROUND US

Question form «Where is…?»

LOOKING FOR MAMA BEAR

Question form «Have you got…?»

COLORFUL TOYS

Toys and colours

WORD BUILDERS

Phonetically difficult words

GOING HOME

Movement instructions

WHAT IS YOUR MONSTER LIKE?

Body parts

WHERE IN THE HOUSE?

Rooms and objects in the house

LISTEN AND DRAW

Listening and understanding

TARGET AUDIENCE

To be used in the classroom or at home, Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase is dedicated to teachers and parents looking for new and stimulating ways to gradually approach the English language. The proposed activities correspond to different levels of difficulty and cover the most important teaching objectives of primary school (first to fifth grades).

THE AUTHOR

Lara Carnovali is a primary school teacher. She is involved in directing the Italian School in Portland (USA), a non-profit teaching organization for teaching Italian to mainly English-speaking adults and children. Known on the web as Teacher Larissa, thanks to her blog, she is a reference point for teachers and parents alike.