Back-To-The-Board style class guessing game. Work in teams to give clues to your team-mate to guess the word but you cannot say certain words.

An engaging PPT to help students identify good presentation skills. There are some slides at the end to help students think of an idea for creating their own TED Talk. This lesson was given after the students had already watched and understood a TED Talk.

A PPT to guide students through hours worth of tasks connected to analysing poverty and inequality from different perspectives.

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

A 37-page activity booklet which can be used for class tasks, independent study or homework. There are some pre-reading questions to discuss, then activities done chapter by chapter following the book including a creative writing task for each chapter. There are After Reading activities and While You’re Waiting Tasks. Tasks are designed to check comprehension and understanding, encourage PEEZL and develop writing skills, figurative writing techniques, build and develop vocabulary range and knowledge, as well as games to be fun and engaging. There are links to literacy skills. Answers are not included but are all taken from the Coraline novel. Students can use this to help them find the answers.

A bumper PPT with approximately 12+ hours work. This covered the whole topic of Human Rights in Global Perspectives for a full term. It looks at Human Rights in general before considering religious freedom, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights in more detail. The PPT also covers key skills such as note-taking and referencing. There is then the opportunity for students to bring this together with a mini case study on North Korea at the end. The students will need their own copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but this is easily available on the Internet.

A PPT Team Game. Seat one person with their back to the board. The other students try to communicate what’s on the board using only body language and gestures. A great ice breaker for an international classroom, especially for lower levels.

Example sentences for students to sort into the correct groups for persuasive writing with AFOREST features. There are categories for Alliteration, Facts, Opinions, Repetition, Rhetorical Questions, Emotive Language, Statistics and The rule of Three. Answers are not included as some sentences may fall into more than one category and it can be a good opportunity for debate in feedback.

Reading comprehension questions and literacy and class activities for guided reading through The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Ss find answers within the text, write in full sentences, give opinions, match food to the place where it’s found, find adjectives, think about articles and countable and uncountable nouns, design a plate to feed a tiger, and start to think and plan their own tea party.

A useful information sheet which walks students through how to write a PEEZL paragraph, then giving an example paragraph and sentence starters. There is then an activity for students to identify the correct parts of a paragraph to sort to make a PEEZL paragraph. This should help students to feel more confident creating their own PEEZL paragraphs.

A short presentation on the power of laughter for the body and soul. A brief introduction to laughter yoga and encouragement to try. Should be a good start to the day with students finding funny. Used for a small school assembly roughly 80 students. Could last between 10-20 minutes.

Questions to test young learners reading comprehension and use of English. Encouraging literacy as students complete sentences, give their opinions, and re-write the story in their own words. Ss then identify adjectives and complete a comparatives/superlatives table.

A PowerPoint to discuss gender stereotypes held individually or held by society. A link to a video, and some statistics of some consequences of gender stereotypes.

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

A checklist of important features in narrative/story writing to guide students through self reflection at the end of a piece of writing. Can also be used to help peer review a partner’s story. The checklist includes some tick boxes for checking for important features and then an open ended sentence starter at the end for the student to reflect on what they did well and how they could improve next time. Ideal for an English or EFL classroom teaching Literature/Creative Writing skills and wanting to encourage a student centred approach to feedback.

A puzzle where students match the past simple form of the verb to the base form. (V2 to V1). There is also a blank version of the puzzle for the students to create their own with different verbs when they have finished.

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

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