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Email: esol@britishmuseum.org
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We're delighted to be able to welcome ESOL groups back on-site.
The General introductory tour and Making of the UK tour are available to book. New tours and digital resources will be coming soon.
All tours and workshops are led by experienced language teachers and materials have been designed to meet appropriate language needs. Tours are free and the maximum group size is currently 20. If your group is larger than 20, please submit a separate booking request form for each group.
Sessions run on request during normal Museum opening hours including weekends. Please book at least three weeks in advance.
Core ESOL group tours
General introductory tour
Learners are introduced to the history, purpose and collection of the British Museum. This is followed by a tour including the Great Court, Enlightenment Gallery, Egyptian and the Assyrian Sculpture Galleries.
The learners are then taken into specific rooms for gallery-based activities which are designed to practice language and grammar elements through further learning about a particular historical or cultural context. The worksheet activities cover Africa, Asia or the Islamic world. Suitable for Literacy learners.
Citizenship – Making of the UK
Citizenship – Making of the UK
Learners are introduced to the settlement and development of the British Isles from prehistory to the Tudor period.
The guided tour looks at the migrations to Britain of peoples such as the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and the Norman French, and the impact of this migration on the development of technology, English language and culture.
The origins of writing
The origins of writing
This workshop will be resuming shortly.
Explore the history of ancient Mesopotamia with this hands-on workshop. Learners will look at the motivations for recording information which led to the development of writing in the Middle East and explore artefacts from the world’s first library – the Library of Nineveh.
Learners will discover the origins of writing through the British Museum’s permanent collections and practise writing the ancient script of cuneiform – the world’s earliest known writing system. Suitable for Literacy learners.
Word in Islamic art
Word in Islamic art
This workshop will be resuming shortly.
This practical workshop explores the power of the word in Islamic art and architecture. Learners will look at the Islamic collections and discover how and why words have been used for artistic expression in Islamic art. Using their studies of the objects, learners will create their own tile to take away. Suitable for Literacy learners.
Nebamun: life and afterlife
Nebamun: life and afterlife
This workshop will be resuming shortly.
This workshop looks at the tomb paintings of Nebamun from ancient Egypt and considers the objects and things that Ancient Egyptians valued in life and the afterlife. Learners will develop vocabulary to describe everyday life and beliefs through the objects in the galleries.
