Symptoms of the Black Death
This resource provides scaffolds for beginner EAL learners to support speaking and listening and writing around the topic of the Black Death.
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It contains several activities to enable EAL learners to access the historical context as well as key vocabulary and language structures relating to the topic. All the activities provide opportunity for collaborative work, but they could also be used as independent or shared writing tasks.
EAL learners will develop their language skills by talking about the causes of the Black Death, describing how the illness developed, recounting and sequencing how the Black Death spread. All activities come with visual support, and key words.
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On the right hand side of this page are a number of documents that you can download for free. Please note that the Teaching Notes and Resources can be found in the pdf document (the first item on the list), whilst the PowerPoint document(s) include(s) presentation(s) which you can display on your interactive board in your classroom.
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© The Bell Educational Trust Limited. This resource is free to use for educational purposes.
This resource was originally developed by S. Moradi and S. Tanner and has been adapted for The Bell Foundation’s teaching materials and resources. The resource was formally referenced as EAL Nexus.