成人快手

Let's learn some words and phrases to help us talk about school and the classroom.

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Video

In this film Filip learns words for things we use in class.

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Key words

Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 4, Jess waves in front of her school, School words

Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 4, Birds-eye view of desk with paper, jotter and stationary on it, Desk words
Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 4, A teacher stands in the foreground of a classroom, Classroom words
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Activities

Sorting activity

Listening activity

Here is what they said:

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Make a sentence

Ask for something

Filip asks if he can have something.
  • To ask for something, you can say:

Try to ask for the things below:

Filip asks if he can have something.
A school jotter

A rubber

A ruler

Ask to go somewhere

Jess asks if she can go somewhere.
  • To ask to go somewhere, you can say:

Jess asks if she can go somewhere.
A disabled toilet, sink and hand dryer

A primary school classroom in the UK

A dinner hall in a UK primary school. Pupils are holding their lunch trays and smiling.

Ask where something is

Filip asks where something is.
  • To ask where something is, you can say:

Filip asks where something is.
A pencil with a question mark and arrows going off in different directions.

A toilet with a question mark and arrows going off in different directions.

A bag with a question mark and arrows going off in different directions.

( To learn how to say where things are, check out our guide: Where things are: prepositions of place )

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Challenge

Draw your classroom

Label the things in it and say each word out loud!

(If you can't write yet just point and say the words.)

Filip draws his classroom and labels each item
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