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

An introduction to the wider topic of mental health focusing on identifying vocabulary for different emotions. Includes emotions people may feel in different situations and distinguishing between positive and negative emotions.

A quiz about languages

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!

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

A worksheet to help students write sentences about places in a town focusing on ‘there is/are’ and prepositions. Ideal for ESL young learners Pre-A1/A1

Short simple sentences encourage learner to guess the animal they are describing. Designed for young learner ESL students. Pre-A1, YLE

A PPT which guides students through identifying the different functions of different emails, inntroducing useful phrases and sentence starters for different purposes. Students also consider formal and informal language and opening and closing phrases.

Students sort health vocabulary into the correct column ‘illness’, ‘accident’ or ‘treatment’. Students are then asked to create sentences using the vocabulary.

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 “contract” for ESL students to do some “work” over the holidays or breaks to keep their learning fresh in their minds.

A PowerPoint which includes a game for students to identify vocabulary for hobbies, creating questions about hobbies, identify collocations for hobbies, and creating sentences using adverbs of frequency about freetime and hobbies.

A PPT helping students discuss feelings, learn idiomatic phrases relating to emotions, identify synonyms for different emotions, and develop their use of English in sentence transformation activities about feelings and emotions. Ideal for ESL learners studying PET (Cambridge Preliminary) or FCE (Cambridge First). NB: Students will need access to the Internet to get the most out of this resource.

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 PPT Lesson designed to help learners describe films. Including useful vocabulary and phrases, as well as a reading task in the style of the PET (Cambridge Preliminary) Reading paper.

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 worksheet helping students to identify vocabulary for family members, build sentences about family members, and a gap-fill based on a KET (Cambridge KEY) style Reading task. Ideal for A1/A2 ESL learners of all ages.

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.

Worksheet where students read sentences describing a room and identify which photograph the sentence is describing. Useful for furniture vocabulary and prepositions. ESL A2.

Includes common daily routine vocabulary, collocations, sentence building with adverbs of frequency and using past simple to describe what you did yesterday. Ideal for young learners in ESL Pre-A1.