TKT: Young Learners case studies
TKT: Young Learners · Put your knowledge to work in context.
TKT: Young Learners (TKT YL) is a specialist module within the Teaching Knowledge Test, Cambridge English's series of modular qualifications that test knowledge in specific areas of English language teaching. TKT YL narrows that focus to the primary and lower-secondary classroom: how young learners develop and learn, how lessons for them are planned and resourced, which teaching strategies and classroom management techniques work with younger classes, and how their progress is assessed and fed back. The TKT: Young Learners case studies are 5 cases and about 4,237 words.
1The Last Twenty Minutes Before Lunch
A teacher has a class of 32 nine-year-olds in a state primary school. The English lesson is the slot immediately before lunch, 11:40–12:30, in a room that backs onto the playground.
830 words, about 4 min2Forty-Five Minutes and Eighteen New Words
A newly qualified teacher is planning a 45-minute lesson for 24 eight-year-olds who have had two years of English. The topic is 'At the Zoo'.
890 words, about 4 min3Six Children Who Cannot Read the Board
A teacher has 30 children aged 10 in a mixed-ability class. Six arrived in the country eighteen months ago and have limited literacy in their first language.
790 words, about 4 min4The Test That Did Not Match the Class
A primary school has decided to replace its continuous classroom assessment with a single written end-of-term test for children in their second year of English (age 7). The test lasts 35 minutes and contains 40 items: gap-fill sentences, a short reading passage with comprehension questions, and a writing task of about 60 words.
840 words, about 4 min5The Timeline on the Board
A teacher of 26 seven-year-olds, in their second year of English, introduces the past simple. She draws a timeline on the board, writes 'regular verbs / irregular verbs' in two columns, and explains in English that 'we add -ed to the base form, but some verbs are irregular, so you have to learn them'.
887 words, about 4 min