i teach reception and year 1 mix, but basically continuous provision is resources which you continually provide
eg a book area, writing corner, listening station, art/craft table, construction (eg lego), role play area, maths investigation area.
In my class room, the children have slots of time in the day where they initiate their own learning (in old days was called choosing!) in many classes, they do something called plan, do, review where the children plan their own activity eg I will make a model or a space craft, they do it, then they come back to the group and review what they have done. The teacher and other children will help them plan it, ie what they need, how they will do it, remind of any rules in that area, then at review time the children are encourgaed to review how well they completed the task, is it finished? Will they change it? etc etc
then, every now and then, each area gets "additional provision" eg this week our writing area has templates for letters to santa. The sand tray has oats and cooking utensils, next week it will have instant snow and giant ice cubes. These are things that the teacher chooses either to match with a topic or to reflect the children's interests.
Most year 1 classes are now supposed to have some element of child initiated learning so I am guessing you will need these types of area in your class room for the children to access. Some year 1 teachers do a plan do review type session especially early in the academic year, whilst some set the children open challenges which they use the continuous provision to solve, and some do both. There does tend to be more control by the teacher over the activities in a year 1 classroom than in a reception class.
I see you mention EAL too, have they been in the school since reception? How much english do they know? It would be importnat to have signs in both english and the other languages represented in your room, although I don't have much experience of EAL at all , sorry.
hope that helps, I have gone on a bit