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High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
EFL Nationalities
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EFL Nationalities

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Teach your EFL/ESOL students over twenty different nationalities with this twenty-four slide Powerpoint. The first activity is to guess the nationality from the nation. The second is a sentence gap-filling exercise to embed the nationalities your students have just learnt. Using their research skills, students find the next 16 nationalities. A final worksheet embeds all the nationalities learnt. A full lesson on nationalities.
Animals Student Workbook
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Animals Student Workbook

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Simple literacy activities on spelling and sentence structure are contained in this twenty page booklet on the theme of animals. Short poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and Gyles Brandreth and information about electric eels keep students interested with scope for their own research and writing about an animal of their choice. Aimed at students who need to catch up at secondary school or primary school students.
Shakespeare's Language On Quoting Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Language On Quoting Shakespeare

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This Powerpoint uses Bernard Levin’s fantastic poem “On Quoting Shakespeare” to illustrate to students the huge influence that Shakespeare had on the English language. The slideshow introduces how many words Shakespeare was responsible for creating; a brief biography of Levin and then the poem split up over 30 slides so that it can be read/performed to the class in a fun way. Students are then asked to explore what some of the idioms that he created mean. The zipped folder includes a worksheet with the idioms split up to be cut up and given to students and a copy of the poem itself.
Halloween Comprehension and Leaflet
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Halloween Comprehension and Leaflet

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Get your students ready for Halloween with this article packed full of interesting facts about the origin and history of Halloween. Eight comprehension questions follow, mainly based on select and retrieve questions, with mark scheme included. Finally there is a task to design a leaflet for younger students promoting Halloween. Created to engage students with British history and culture, this resource would also be ideal for EAL learners also.
Homophones : Allowed and Aloud
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Homophones : Allowed and Aloud

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Starter activity on the homophones allowed and aloud. Afer the explanation, students fill in the correct word in ten sentences, followed by answers, so students mark their own work.
Spelling: Plurals Ending in O
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Spelling: Plurals Ending in O

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Do you add -s or -es to the end of words ending in o in the plural? Students are introduced to the spelling rule, then given a worksheet to help them learn the spellings. The powerpoint gives a clue and a graphic and the students have to spell eighteen words ending in o. The graphics will help students for whom English is a second language. All answers provided.
Travel Writing: Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses
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Travel Writing: Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses

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This lesson explains simple sentences and then shows students how to identify the main clause and subordinate clause in complex sentences. Students extend some given sentence starters into complex sentences. Then they use the information about Lake Como in Italy to create a piece of exciting and sophisticated travel writing.
Sell the Product: Ing Verb Sentences
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Sell the Product: Ing Verb Sentences

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Encourage your students to use a wider variety of sentences by teaching them how to begin sentences with the present participle, “ing” form of the verb. This powerpoint contains a clear explanation, ten sentences to re-write with answers and five fictional products to for students to sell using this type of sentence. In the final activity students choose their own product or company to promote using this sentence type. It can be used as two separate lessons of thirty minutes or a lesson of an hour, factoring in feedback from students.
Eponyms
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Eponyms

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A fun lesson on how many objects in the English language have been named after people. The powerpoint includes an explanation of the meaning of the term and then students complete a worksheet with clues to fifteen eponyms. The powerpoint then gives the answers with visually stimulating cartoons. Finally students are asked to create an educational poster for younger students to embed the learning. This is an enlightening and enjoyable lesson, ideal for when your students need a diverting break.
Get Rid of Get
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Get Rid of Get

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Don’t you just hate it when students overuse the verb “get” in their writing? With this fun powerpoint, you can encourage your students to abandon this tedious and unimaginative verb. The powerpoint contains several quick-fire activities and the folder includes five worksheets to embed the learning. Great for teaching synonyms and how to vary your vocabulary.
Punctuating Speech
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Punctuating Speech

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This powerpoint contains three separate lessons on punctuating speech. First of all students revise the rules and then complete two exercises - adding punctuation to a dialogue, then using picture stimuli to write their own original dialogue. The second lesson covers speech tags and the three places tags can be positioned with exercises. The third lesson helps students to make writing dialogue more interesting using adverbs and character description. The lessons culminate in students creating their own dialogue from a scenario, all designed to support increasing independence with punctuating speech
Pimp Your Sentences: Ed Verb Sentences
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Pimp Your Sentences: Ed Verb Sentences

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Based on the idea that sentences can be more interesting if you bring the verb ending -ed to the front of the sentence, you can help your students to write in a more interesting way. After a clear explanation, students practise combining five sets of two sentences about Buckingham Palace, bringing the past participle to the beginning of the sentence. Answers provided. The lesson then increases in difficulty with students given information about five different places/artefacts, with which they have to build the sentence. The lesson will last at least 30 minutes.
Pimp Your Sentences: Use "which"
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Pimp Your Sentences: Use "which"

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This lesson on creating complex sentences with the relative pronoun “which” contains two activities. First of all there are ten pairs of sentences to combine into one sentence, with answers provided. Students are then given the first part of a sentence, which they have to extend with “which”.
Pimp Your Sentences: Use "who"
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Pimp Your Sentences: Use "who"

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With a clear explanation of how to create complex sentences using the relative pronoun “who”, students have to combine ten pairs of sentences about famous people, with answers provided. The second activity gives students the first part of a sentence, which they then have to extend themselves, therefore increasing the level of difficulty.
Spelling: Words Ending in Able and Ible
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Spelling: Words Ending in Able and Ible

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A twenty question quiz on spelling words ending in “ible” or “able”. Students are given some guidelines and a look/cover/spell/check worksheet to learn the spelling before the quiz. All answers provided on the powerpoint, so students can mark their own work. A consolidation worksheet is included to complete at home or in class.
Words from Celtic
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Words from Celtic

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Although the Celts lived in Britain before the arrival of the English language, some words have survived into English. This twenty slide powerpoint contains an introduction to the history of the Celts and then some matching activities where students match the Celtic word to its English equivalent with answers provided. This is followed by an activity to learn about how Celtic place names have survived into English and what they mean.
Spelling: More Words Ending in Y
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Spelling: More Words Ending in Y

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After you have completed the free worksheet on changing the -y to an -i in singular and plural words, you can also try this 86 slide Powerpoint that explains how lots of other words change the -y ending to an -i ending when you add a suffix. All answers are provided on the slides and there is an accompanying worksheet to consolidate and embed the learning. Designed to be completed as an individual or for a class.
Words from Around the World: ANIMALS
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Words from Around the World: ANIMALS

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Forty-four clues to names of animals that have come into English from nine different languages. Teach students to recognise that English is a language full of borrowings from other languages in this fun powerpoint-based lesson. All answers provided on the slide to enable students to mark their own work. Can be completed individually or in groups.
Personify A Place Poem
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Personify A Place Poem

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Students learn how to personify their home town in a poem by studying two examples of poems that personify cities. Twenty-five slide powerpoint, plus worksheets with fill in the blanks exercises.
Confusing Words
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Confusing Words

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What’s the difference between the following words? Its/It’s A/An Was/were Has/have Of/have To/two/too? This 100 slide powerpoint has it covered with explanations and exercises for each set of confusing words. All answers provided.