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Teacher’s guide
2021/2022
for English
THIS GUIDE CONTAINS: photographic image captures the attention of the young
reader and provides short and interesting facts.
~ information about the structure of the magazine;
~ a table of contents; ~ Story Corner on pages 10-11 contains a short
~ photocopiable activities. comic-strip story written specifically for young
learners. Each story features our friendly characters,
Ready for English corresponds to the A1 Robby the rabbit, Charlotte the cow, Charlie the cat,
breakthrough level of the Common European Hattie the hen, Dylan the duck and Gracie the goat.
Framework of Reference for Languages (Strasbourg They all live at Forest Farm where they have great
1997). The magazine helps to develop the adventures together. Children love stories and are
communication, grammar and vocabulary skills motivated at the thought of listening to new ones.
expected at this level. For this reason, the stories in each issue are recorded
in the audio materials and provide further listening
MAGAZINE STRUCTURE: practice. The stories are based on the vocabulary
topic introduced on pages 4-5 and allow students to
~ Each issue of Ready for English starts with an see how the words are used in context. The stories
introductory double-page spread where readers can be used for a variety of activities: short drama
can discover short snippets of information about a activities to reinforce the target language; reorder the
specific festivity or important day of the year. story pictures; guess what happens next; art activities
A song, poem or rhyme accompanies the topic and in which students draw a picture of their favourite
is included in the audio materials available from the part/character of the story; speaking activities where
resources website www.elilanguagemagazines.com students talk about a similar experience they might
(in MP3 format). The audio materials help students have had etc.
to improve pronunciation skills and develop
intonation. ~ On pages 12-13, we take a look at a particular
A karaoke version of the songs/poems is also aspect of Anglophone culture (customs, traditions,
included where children can sing along to the music. places of interests...). The culture site encourages
young readers to compare their own customs with
~ The Mini dictionary on pages 4-5 introduces a those of the English-speaking world.
selection of vocabulary based on a chosen topic. The
children are encouraged to find the new objects in ~ Let’s play at Forest Farm! is a page dedicated
the colourful illustration. The audio materials include to our story corner, with vocabulary games and
recordings of all the vocabulary and help students to comprehension activities.
memorise new words quickly and efficiently.
~ On page 16 Let’s have fun! is a page which
~ Fun and games! on pages 6-7 provides a is dedicated some of the most fun and interesting
selection of fun linguistic games (crosswords, children’s museums in the English-speaking world.
anagrams, complete the sentences, etc.) to help
the children learn and practise the new vocabulary ~ Stickers and pull-out features: in every issue
presented in the mini dictionary. there are pull-out pages including stickers with basic
language structures and phrases, craft activities and
~ Poster is a pull-out poster on pages 8-9 which games.
focuses on different aspects of the Anglophone
world (posters can include an important monument, For more information and online material visit
food, places of interest...). In each issue a large our website.
www.elilanguagemagazines.comContents 2021-2022
A rhyme Mini Story corner pages Let’s have Insert
pages 2-3 dictionary 10-11 fun!
pages 4-5 page 16
Issue 1 Colours of In my school The first day of Natural History Stickers
September/ the rainbow bag school Museum
October
Issue 2 Gifts for A walk in the www.prettythings.com Children’s Greetings
November/ everyone! city museum, cards
December Indianapolis
Issue 3 Hooray for Carnival Explosive… confetti! Daintree Stickers
January/ carnival! Discovery
February Centre
Issue 4 See how I The teaching At the teaching farm Science World Playtime
March/April can count! farm
Issue 5 A holiday in Seaside or Where will we go on The Deep Yummy
May/June the Maldives mountain holiday? bookmarks
holidays?
ANSWERS
Issue 1 September / October Issue 3 January / February Issue 5 May / June
Activity 1: glue stick, white, scissors, green, Activity 1: band, confetti, costume, carnival, Activity 1: 1 cap, 2 flip-flops, 3 sun cream,
black, book, pencils, notebook, pencil case: doughnut, trumpet. 4 sunglasses, 5 T-shirt, 6 water bottle:
I love going to school! Activity 2: 1k, 2f, 3d, 4i, 5b, 6g, 7l, 8e, 9a, I want to go on holiday in the country!
Activity 2: 1 blue, 2 red, 3 white, 4 black, 10h, 11j, 12c. Activity 2: summer, school, holiday, flight,
5 blue, red, 6 red, yellow. sole, swim, flowers, fish, happy.
Activity 3: 1 Hattie reads, 2 Gracie colours, Activity 3: own answer.
3 Robby draws, 4 Charlotte cuts, 5 Charlie Issue 4 March / April
glues, 6 Dylan writes. Activity 1: 1 water, 2 spade, 3 vegetables,
4 flowers, 5 wheelbarrow, 6 beehive, 7 fruit, Giant crossword
8 vegetable garden, 9 tree, 10 bees, 1 make-up, 2 book, 3 butchers, 4 vegetables,
Issue 2 November / December 11 scarecrow, 12 harvest. 5 vegetable garden, 6 café, 7 seeds,
Activity 1: 1 pastry shop, 2 butchers, 8 stationers, 9 scarecrow, 10 costume,
3 bakery, 4 shoe shop, 5 stationers: 11 flowers, 12 streamers, 13 pastry shop,
I go shopping at the market! 14 pen, 15 beehive, 16 bees, 17 confetti,
Activity 3: everyone, friends, tree, game, 18 float, 19 balloon, 20 kite, 21 flippers.
jewel, sweets, notebook, gifts, something.
2 Readyphoto This activity folder
belongs to:
Name: .......................................................................
Surname: ..................................................................
Date and place of birth: ...........................................
Born on ....................................................................
in ..............................................................................
Telephone number: ...................................................
Address: ...................................................................
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Email: .......................................................................
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Mother’s job: ............................................................
Father’s job: ..............................................................
Class: ........................................................................
Languages studied: ..................................................
Favourite subjects: ...................................................
Hobbies: ...................................................................
Sports: ......................................................................
My favourite actor/actress:
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My favourite singer: .................................................
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Ready 3PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - Nº 1 September / October 2021
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
Activity 1
Find 9 words in the grid and complete
the cartoon with the remaining letters.
G L U E S T I C K I
W S C I S S O R S G _ ____
H L B L A C K O B R _____
I V E G O I N G O E to school!
T P E N C I L S O E
E N O T E B O O K N
P E N C I L C A S E
Activity 2
Help Dylan mix the colours.
Read, write and colour.
1 ○ yellow + ○________ = ○ green
2 ○ ________ + ○ yellow = ○ orange
3 ○ red + ○ ________ = ○ pink
4 ○ ________ + ○ white = ○ grey
5 ○ ________ + ○ ________ = ○ purple
6 ○ ________ + ○ blue + ○ ________ = ○ brown
Activity 3
draws • colours
Look and complete the sentences with the glues • cuts
verbs. reads • writes
1 __________ __________ an English book.
2 __________ __________ with coloured pencils.
3 __________ __________ a train.
4 __________ __________ pictures from a magazine.
5 __________ __________ stickers in his notebook.
6 __________ __________ an email to his friends.
4 ReadyPHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - Nº 2 November / December 2021
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
Activity 1
I go shopping
Words and pictures. Gracie must make at the _ _ _ _ _ _!
dinner for her friends. Where does she go
shopping? Look, write the words in the
grid and complete the cartoon with the
hidden letters.
M
1 2 1 P S T R Y S H O P
2 B U T C H E S
3 B A E R Y
3 4 5 4 S H O S H O P
5 S T A I O N E R S
Activity 2
Read and complete the road signs.
1 Turn right 2 Go straight on 3 Turn left
Activity 3 something • friends • sweets • pencils • tree
gifts • jewel • everyone • notebook • game
Complete the Ready rhyme.
Gifts for _____________ !
Merry Christmas from Forest Farm to you! Gracie gets some yummy ____________
What do our ____________ want to do? Coloured ___________ for Dylan, what a treat!
The gifts are underneath the ____________ , For Charlie a lovely new ____________
One for you and one for me! And for Charlotte a golden book.
A funny ____________ for Robby Receiving ____________ is so much fun,
And a beautiful ____________ for Hattie there’s ____________ for everyone!
Ready 5PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - Nº 3 January / February 2022
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
Activity 1
BA TTI COST
An explosion of confetti! ME U
Make words.
NUT
VAL
RNI DOUGH ND
PET CA CONFE
TRUM
Activity 2
Read and draw.
mask
doughnut
wig
trumpet
e Coloured feathers and masks and
soft chiffon
Activity 3 f Come on, let’s dance, everyone!
Listen to the rhyme and number the lines. g Throwing confetti at all our guests!
h And a nice doughnut too, I think
a Now, let’s get a nice cool drink i And we’ll enjoy everything
b Do you know what I think is the best? j Try to guess, try to guess..
c What’s my costume? How will I dress? 1 k Carnival is so much fun
d We’ll dress up, then we’ll sing l We can put our lovely costumes on
6 ReadyPHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - Nº 4 March / April 2022
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
Activity 1
Words and pictures. Look at the pictures then write the words in the grid.
1
1 7
2
3 5 2 8
6 4
7
3 9
8
4 10
9
10
5 11
11
12 6 12
Activity 2
Read, draw and colour.
Welcome to my teaching farm! There
are two brown beehives where the bees
make delicious honey. In the middle of the
vegetable garden there is a scarecrow: he’s
wearing a green hat and red boots. On the
left of the farm there are three trees and
each tree has four apples: two red and two
green. In the vegetble garden there is a
yellow wheelbarrow and a basket with five
carrots. There is a spade on the wheelbarrow
to plant the vegetables. Here and there, you
can see eight flowers, all in different colours!
Ready 7PHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - Nº 5 May / June 2022
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
Activity 1 I want to go on
Look and write the words in the grid, holiday in the
then complete Robby’s cartoon. _______!
1
2
3 1 2 3
4
5 -
6
4 5 6
Y
Today is such a happy day
Activity 2 I’m going to the Maldives on ___________ !
Complete the rhyme. The Indian Ocean is such a sight
We’ll have to take a long, long ___________
flowers • flight • school • summer Hooray for the Maldives, hooray for the sea
fish • happy • holiday • swim We’ll ___________ and sunbathe all day, you
and me
A holiday in the Maldives
We’ll wear a necklace made of ___________
I’m so happy, don’t you know? And we’ll sing and dance for hours and hours
The ___________ is coming. Where will I go?
We can go swimming and catch some
To my teacher, I’ll say ‘goodbye’ ___________ For dinner, what a delicious dish!
Sad that ___________ is over, but I won’t cry
I’m so ___________, don’t you know?
The summer is coming. Where will I go?
Activity 3
Complete the postcard.
Dear ______________________________
I’m on holiday in ________________.
There is ____________________________
___________________________________
____________ in my suitcase.
I’m having fun with _______________. Address: ___________________________
Kisses, __________________________________
__________________ __________________________________
8 ReadyPHOTOCOPIABLE ACTIVITIES - School Year 2021-2022
Name: .................................. Surname: .................................. Class: ..................................
GIANT CROSSWORD
Look at the pictures and do the crossword.
1
M 3
A 2 BOOK 4
K U V 6
5 V E G E T AB L E GARD EN
U C E G A
7 P H E E F
S 9 E S 8 S T A T I ON E R S
E S R A
E 10 C O S T U M E B 12
14 D A 11 F
13 P A S T R Y S H O P E T15
E R 16 B E E S R
N 18 17 C O N F E T T I E
F R A
19 B A L L O N M
O 20 E
A R
T 21 F L I P P E R S
1 5 9 13 17 21
2 6 10 14 18
3 7 11 15 19
4 8 12 16 20
9SCHOOL YEAR 2021 / 2022
ENGLISH CERTIFICATE
Awarded by the magazine Ready
READY! TEACHER’S GUIDE 2021-2022 BY LYNN BULMER
© 2021 ELI SRL – WWW.ELILANGUAGEMAGAZINES.COM
NAME
SURNAME
DIRETTORE RESPONSABILE: MICHELE CASALI / AUTORIZZAZIONE TRIBUNALE N. 309 DEL 14 GIUGNO 1989.
DATE OF BIRTH
Signed by Hattie, PLACE OF BIRTH
the owner of Forest Farm
SCHOOL
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