An engaging PowerPoint to introduce Young Learners to vocabulary for transport and describing transport. Pre-A1 level.

A PowerPoint which guides students through understanding what a rhetorical question is and how to use them. Ideal for article writing. A2.2/B1+

A fun quiz-style team gameshow designed to help test/improve students collocative knowledge and use of English. Several different rounds in a similar style to the FCE (Cambridge First) paper.

A quiz/game for students to identify collocations to form idioms. The meaning of the idioms are not covered in the game and could be taught separately.

A worksheet designed for a 1:1 literacy class with a primary student. Aimed to develop reading comprehension, story telling and writing skills. Would work well within a young learner EAL classroom too.

An ideal homework or revision task to check students knowledge of the play. Students must colour the quotation to match it to the correct character. Great for start or end of term.

Prompting questions for someone observing an experienced teacher. Designed for someone doing Assessment Only Route to QTS, or a teacher analysing another teacher’s class for professional development PDR. Could also be really useful for new teachers, future teachers or trainee teachers.

A PPT covering vocabulary for different types of transport, collocations casino for phrases for travel and getting around, discussing and comparing photographs of people travelling, and analysing an email of someone discussing some upcoming travel. Useful for ESL students studying PET (Cambridge Preliminary)

A worksheet to help students identify techniques for the PET (Cambridge Preliminary) Speaking Test for describing a photograph. Useful phrases and chunks of language to help develop their discourse management.

A student sits with their back to the board. A word appears on the board behind them. The members of their team can each give a one-word clue to help the student guess the word behind them.

A PPT to guide students through understanding the difference between facts and opinions. Understanding the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sources in History and using those skills to analyse a biography and create their own. The text I gave my students about Donald Trump was this one: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/donald-trump But any other text or adapted biography would work. This was three hours’ work for my class.

A gapfill for the Monkey Puzzle Song by Julia Donaldson on YouTube. The missing words are available in a box with a picture prompt for differentiated support. There is also a worksheet for Makaton signs for animals from the story. This took my class a full hour. We listened to the song to enjoy it. Then we listened twice to do the gapfill. Then we read through the song lyrics in feedback to check our answers. Then we sang the song two times - trying with actions the second time! Then we discussed what Makaton was and made the signs and guessed which animals from the story they could be. Then the students drew their own pictures of the animals next to the signs.

An engaging PPT designed to cover 6 x 1 hour lessons with a group of international students being taught subject support to assist them with their Business skills. Notes and answers have been added to the slides to help T where necessary. The lessons include a variety of speaking, writing, and grammar tasks using a variety of independent, pair and group work. The lessons are designed to get students understanding critical thining and how to think critically about different things and develop their problem solving skills teaching them to think ‘outside the box’. The grammar focus for these lessons is on the first conditional. There is a final project for the students to apply their learning.

A quiz PPT where students need to identify words spelt using the phonemic chart and then spell words using phonemes from the phonemic chart.

A PPT which introduced vocabulary for describing different types of music, as well as introducing phrases for giving opinions and different statements to discuss.

Sports Vocabulary PPT for B1/PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students. Identifies vocaulary for different sports, sport equipment, places to do sport, as well as a collocations casino-style quiz game for do, play and go.

Worksheet designed for nationality nouns and adjectives for different countries around the world. Can be used with ESL Learners A1/A2/B1.

A puzzle designed to help students identify the spellings of months through matching the anagrams to complete the puzzles. Designed for ESL Learners, particularly young learners - Pre-A1

A simple worksheet for identifying whether to use ‘is’ or ‘has’ when describing people’s appearance.

Cut out and match the jobs to their descriptions. The jobs and descriptions come ready muddled so the students can cut them out as part of the activity if you need a time-saver!