Activities include role playing, story telling and creating, describing sequential pictures, using word games and puzzles, and reciting rhymes. Availability of resources and learning materials, according to teachers, remain as problems. Some teachers use materials imported from India. When these are used by older learners, as their reading skills come to match those of younger learners in India, the themes are found to be inappropriate. Often, the content matter of these imported books is unsuitable because of differences in life styles.
Many teachers prepare their own materials.
One textbook for the Bengali classes has been produced by a local teacher. It has not received wide acceptance. Many parents objected to the content matter as being too alien to Bengali culture. Classroom evaluation of students in Bengali classes needs more co-ordination. In the regular schools, most students receive anecdotal reports but for Bengali classes parents demand marks expressed in percentiles.