• Information on cultural and language awareness and language learning

• Guidance on finding out about refugees’ language needs and planning language support

• Learning activities that range from breaking the ice, learning vocabulary and thinking about language and learning, to a series of scenarios that focus on real-life communication and suggestions for interacting with the local community.

Very useful for people who are supporting refugees with basic survival language of the host country. Although intended for refugees some parts could be used or adapted for newly arrived migrants who are not refugees. 

You can take advantage of a free trial or pay £15 for an individual licence. 

Charlotte says: "I use it to scaffold their understanding of the purpose of feedback, by modelling it and completing for them on one piece of work for them to action, then for them to complete on their own piece of work as a self assessment, and then when they are getting better at that, getting them to use it on another piece of work as a peer assessment. It is ideal for students who can read and are developing sentences. "

Paperback edition

Do you teach basic ESOL Literacy groups? This series can help you engage your students in motivating and interesting tasks to help boost their literacy level. It can also save you hours in preparation time!

This series includes:

• Student's Book, featuring featuring reading, writing, vocabulary and phonics tasks for students to work on in class.

• The Student’s workbook is packed with tasks to set for homework, all linked to the reading and writing practice in the Student’s Book.

• The Teacher’s Book includes suggestions on how to stage your classes successfully and fully exploit the material in the Student’s Book and Workbook. It is also packed with ideas for extra tasks and supplementary materials including games, creating videos, using flash cards, handwriting worksheets, creating a class What’s App group and Kahoot quizzes.

English with Pip and Pippy is suitable for all beginners of English, including absolute beginners.

The book encourages students to participate in meaningful communication through pair work, group work, role play and mingling activities.

It scaffolds learning and offers many opportunities for writing development and revision.

It increases student agency by encouraging creativity and contribution to the development of activities.  

Lots of useful listening material specifically.

Created as part of the Skills for Life strategy and mapped to the Adult ESOL core curriculum (2001). provides full lesson plan packs and resources to be used in the ESOL classroom at all levels.

They cover the five topics:

• Exercise

• Feelings

• Healthy eating

• Sleep

• Volunteering

GREC (Grampian Regional Equality Council) have a Padlet for the Scottish Language Cafés Network where you can share, organise and discuss Language Café ideas.

You can also find their Language Café Toolkit PDF on the Padlet

You need to request to download the resource but they are free.