Foreign languages, 7–10 years — 55 topics · MyLeoNes™ Kuks
55 foreign languages topics written for 7–10 years — not a older text simplified. In teaching order, each a deck of five cards: the idea, why it exists, a worked example, the common trap and where you meet it.
Foreign languages · 7–10 years
Hello! Saying who you are
Greet people, say your name, your age, where you are from and what you like: five small sentences that start every chat.
Listen and understand: words, stories, songs
You do not need every word: listen for the words you know, watch the pictures and follow the beat of rhymes and songs.
The alphabet and reading words with pictures
26 letters with English names, letters that team up (sh, ch, ee) and how to read a word with the help of a picture.
Numbers to 50, days and months
Count to fifty, say the days and the months, and do little sums in English.
Words and pictures: colours, clothes, pets, weather
Learn picture words in groups, read short sentences with them, and practise writing: order letters and words, label pictures, fill gaps.
Forms and messages
Fill in a simple form with your details and answer a short message, with capital letters where English needs them.
Countries, flags and festivals
Find countries on the map, know their flags, weather and festivals, and compare your own culture with the English-speaking world.
Simple past: regular verbs
Learn how English shows that a finished action happened before now.
Going to: plans
Learn how to talk about a future plan that you have already decided.
Comparing two things
Learn how English shows that one thing has more or less of a quality than another.
How often: frequency words
Learn how small words show whether something happens always, often, sometimes or never.
Object pronouns
Learn how English replaces the person or thing receiving an action with words such as me, him, her, us and them.
Prepositions of time: at, on and in
Learn how English chooses at, on or in to place an event at a time, on a day or inside a longer period.
Must and must not
Use must and must not to say that a rule or strong need applies.
Irregular past verbs
Learn why some common English verbs change shape in the past instead of adding -ed.
This, that, these and those
Learn how English points to one or more things by showing whether they are near or farther away.
Imperatives: giving instructions
Learn how to tell someone what to do, from opening a book to waiting your turn.
Some and any: talking about amounts
Learn how English talks about an amount without saying exactly how much.
Apostrophe s: showing ownership
Learn how to show that one person or animal owns or is linked to something.
Will: quick future decisions and predictions
Learn one way to talk about what you decide, expect or promise for later.
Countable and uncountable nouns
You learn why we say “three apples” but “some rice”, and how this helps you ask for the right amount.
Possessive pronouns
You learn to say who something belongs to without repeating the noun: “This book is mine” or “That bag is hers.”
Could for polite requests
You learn how “Could you…?” turns a command into a respectful request, without making the request weak or uncertain.
Should for advice
You learn to suggest a sensible action with “should” and to say that something is probably a good idea, not a strict rule.
Asking about the past
You can already say what happened. Now you can ask someone else about yesterday, last weekend or a finished event using did.
Like plus -ing
English uses a special pattern to talk about activities you enjoy or do not enjoy. You will learn to say what you like doing, not just name an object.
Cause and result with so
When one thing happens because of another, so joins the reason to its result. This lets you explain a small chain of events clearly.
Using a bilingual dictionary
A bilingual dictionary helps you find a word, but choosing the right meaning still needs thought. You will learn a simple way to look, check and choose.
Superlatives: the most and the least
Learn how to show that one person or thing stands at the top or bottom of a group. This helps you talk about records, favourites and choices.
Adverbs of manner: how actions happen
Learn to show how someone does something, not what the person or thing is like. This makes instructions, stories and descriptions clearer.
First conditional: real future possibilities
Learn how to connect a possible condition with its likely result. This lets you make plans, warnings and promises about what may happen next.
False friends: words that look familiar
Learn why a word that resembles one in your own language may still mean something different. This helps you check meaning instead of guessing from appearance.
Spelling words aloud
You learn how to say a word one letter at a time, and how letter names help when someone has not understood the spelling.
Telling the time
You learn to read a clock and say when something happens, using the hour, minutes, half past, and quarter past or to.
Short answers to yes-or-no questions
You learn to answer a yes-or-no question naturally by repeating the helping verb, instead of repeating the whole sentence.
A word’s little partner: articles
Articles help listeners know whether we mean one thing, some things, or a particular thing.
Asking yes-or-no questions with do and does
A question helper moves a present-tense sentence into a question.
Can: saying what is possible
The word can gives a quick way to talk about an ability or something that is possible.
Describing with adjectives
Adjectives add useful detail, so a listener can picture the person, animal or thing you mean.
Greetings and introductions
Learn the small phrases that begin a conversation and help people know who you are.
Have got: saying what someone has
Have got is a useful way to talk about belongings, family members or features. The form changes in one important place: I have got, but he or she has got.
Joining ideas with and, but and because
Small joining words show how two pieces of meaning fit together.
Making more than one
Plural forms let a listener know that there is more than one person, animal or thing.
Present continuous: saying what is happening now
This pattern shows an action in progress at the moment of speaking. It uses am, is or are, then a verb ending in -ing: I am reading.
Question words
Use question words to find the missing piece of information instead of guessing.
Saying what does not happen with do not and does not
Do not and does not turn a present-tense statement into a negative one.
Saying where things are
Place words connect an object with its surroundings, helping someone find it or move through a space.
Showing who owns something: my, your, his and her
These small words tell us who a thing belongs to. They come before the thing: my book, your pencil, his coat or her bag.
Talking about routines
Learn how a new language talks about things that happen regularly, such as school, meals and play.
The s that shows one person
In English present-tense sentences, a small s often appears on the verb after he, she or it.
The small words that stand for people
In a new language, we do not need to repeat every name. Subject pronouns help us show who is doing something.
The verb be: am, is and are
English uses different forms of be to connect someone or something with an identity, place or state.
There is and there are: saying what exists
There is and there are introduce things we can see or imagine in a place. Use there is for one thing and there are for two or more.
Was and were: talking about before
Was and were are the past forms of be.
Word order
Notice how a language arranges words so that a listener can tell who does what.
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