Primary EAL: English for Ages 6-11 - Workbook 2 (New to English & Early Acquisition)

This is an excellent book, I recommend it to all parents and educators to purchase for a child who struggles with English, English as a second language and other children in nursery, reception and primary.

Was hoping for more useful interesting pages.

Although this book is EAL (English as an Additional Language) and catered to those who's primary language isn't English, it is still a very good resource for those who's first language is English. That is, this book is very useful for any kid learning the language.The blurb claims the book is for those aged between 6 and 11 years of age, but this is a HUGE range to cover, and checking out the contents, I feel that a lot of it, if not most of it is too advanced for anyone younger than, say, 8 years of age.There's stuff in there that we didn't cover when I was at school. Sure we did verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and all that good stuff, but we certainly never did prepositions and the like.The pages of the book are decent for writing notes on, and, the book is present as diverse and reflective of society today, i.e., it isn't stuck in the 80's.Best of all? There's an online portion to this book which is extremely helpful in terms of pronunciation .

These books are too 'schooly', like very 'olden-day-schooly'. They will kill any interest in studying English whatsoever rather than advocate it. These books would work better for grown-ups in their very first stage of getting acquainted with the language. These will never retain any interest for younger audience. Definitely forget up till 11. Six is probably the only age when a child can still manage to digest such a boring material as they will be simply excited to work with the new language. Older audience will have worked with better workbooks so these ones will not stand a chance.

Ok, we have a lot of EAL kids and always trialling all sorts of resources, courses etc. This book series is only good if you are not familiar with the fields of EFL and EAL , never heard of CLIL and never seen any decent resources. After a few flicks through the books, we lost hope, but decided to persevere and use them as a backbone of 1:1 lessons. Every book has only a taster of activities and topics you would want your EAL kids to cover and very few curricular links as such - if you use them for additional activities, homework, revision, or the like, they are not bad. But to see any progress, you need to make sure that EAL students are catered for properly and these books are only complementary to proper lessons delivered with a lot more in-depth study and practice. On their own...sorry, but these are a bit useless and EFL market is full of resources WAY better than these ones. Sorry.