Do they know the Bible or Quran or any prayers that they have memorized in their mother tongue?

 

If so, they can save a lot of time by not having to look up vocabulary in a dictionary by reading or listening to English translations of familiar Bible stories (or other religious texts).  If your students are not religious, short texts such as Aesop �s fables can be helpful because they are most likely already familiar in their mother tongue. 

 

http://www.easyenglish.info/bible/

 

http://www.biblestudytools.com/bbe/ 

Great advice from Mary.

If they have access to the internet, newsinlevels is a great site. They can get the gist of the news items by reading level 1 articles and there is usually a video clip for each story. A �test your level of English �  pops up and that is at word level. I use this site a lot with my students and I ask them to read 3 reports of their choice and answer the �wh � words - just with single words, insofar as they can. There used to be a level 0 on this site, with just 5 key words attached to each item. Does anyone know if it can still be accessed, or have I mixed this up with a different site?

 http://www.newsinlevels.com/

I don�t know much about KET but I have some suggestions that might help you plan your program

 

1. How to teach Cambridge English: Key (KET) (I�ve done several of these courses and they are excellent)

 

2. British Council�s KET vocab list

3. Absolute Beginner English - 20 Point Program

4. 60 hour program for false beginners

 

and

 

5. This copy of the beginner section of a syllabus that I found on the internet many years ago (It �s not available online any more). I think KET is A2.

 

 

Silvana Sousa