Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
Teaching about food? How can we be sure that we have integrated all the vocabulary and grammar relevant to their level?
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback to teach about food, restaurants and how to order?
This delicious flexible resource will help you teach teenagers and adults about food habits, menus, different types of restaurants, ordering food... This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 22 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. It also contains a booklet with 6 pages so that students keep a track of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains reading and writing activities to consolidate their grammatical skills and improve their writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A speaking about types of restaurants
- A matching up with food items/menu
- A conversation to reorder and to role play at the restaurant between customers and a waiter
- A writing about menu
- A conversation about ordering food in a fast-food restaurant with a comprehension grid
- A disappearing game as a plenary
- A review of objectives
Have fun
Teaching a language is not just about vocabulary and grammar but it is also about culture. How about embedding some culture while teaching your students about shapes and colors? This complete lesson made of a PPT (38 slides) and an activity booklet (10 pages) will help you teach your students about shapes, colors but also opinions and different types of paintings. By the end of the lesson your students should be able to recognize different types of paintings and they should be able to give their opinion. Here's what you get:
- a self-target setting slide
- a word search about colors and a dictionary search
- a review about clours
- an introduction to shapes through a matching up with shapes/colours
- drilling of shapes through games (guessing game and multiple choice, colouring activity)
- a quiz about famous artists/paintings
- a recap about likes/dislikes + fruit/vegetables (through Arcimboldo)
- a matching up about artistic movements
- a pair work -back-to back game with descriptions
- a reading activity with a description about Monet's Femme à l'ombrelle
- a writing activity to describe some paintings
- a plenary with expressions related to colors
- a review of objectives
Have fun
Bonjour,
Here is a powerpoint with 28 slides introducing health issues for beginners. It contains
- a detailed recap/introductory slide about what students should know and will learn
- a self-target setting slide,
- a starter with a monster to draw to revise about body parts
- an introduction to different health issues
- 2 grammar points (au, à la, aux) + être/avoir.
- a matching up exercise
- mimes
- games for drilling (quiz and slap the board)
- conversations in pairs (phone call to the doctor and at the doctor's)
- a plenary with sentences to unjumble.
In order to facilitate your student progress it also contain a nice colourful booklet with 8 pages to use alongside with the powerpoint.
Enjoy! And feel free to contact me if any question.
Food is always an enjoyable topic to teach. Now how can we ensure we engage, challenge and motivate all our students? Which activities would best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the needs of your students while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about food they like and what they eat/drink for breakfast. This resource is also a good way to open up their minds about different types of food depending on different cultures in the world
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 31 slides designed for pre/intermediate students about breakfast items, opinions and the preterit. You’ll also get an activity booklet with 10 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The pack contains:
- a self target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video as a starter to talk about breakfast and opinions
- a dictionary challenge about different type of food
- a second video about breakfast around the world
- introduction to opinions and justifications about food
- introduction to breakfast items
- matching up activity reading
- further reading with frequency adverbs
- speaking activity
- introduction to the verb gustar followed by a practice
- introduction to the preterite use
- writing
- review of objectives
Enjoy! Have fun teaching about food in Spanish!
Here's a powerpoint with 31 colourful slides and its booklet with 8 pages about the Chinese New Year in French. It can be used for beginners and intermediate learners. It consists of:
- a self-target setting slide
- introduction to facts about customs and traditions for the Chinese New Year
- a quiz with a True/False
- an introduction to basic vocabulary about zodiacal signs with a game
- information about each zodiacal sign to practise adjectives
- a grammar point about adjectives (From easy to more complex explanation)
- a practice
- a speaking in pairs
- colouring activity with Chinese mask
- a review of objectives
They are so cute! Which kid wouldn’t want to cuddle a lovely pet? How about teaching children about pets then?
This colourful resource with a 32-slide PowerPoint and its activity booklet with 11 pages is aimed at beginners in French.
It will help you to teach about pets, colours and opinions in just on resource. The 4 skills are embedded and kids will love the games that will make your lesson an interactive one!
It is aimed at children or teens but feel free to adapt it for adults.
It contains:
1. a self-target setting slide so that students are responsible for their own learning
2. a matching up activity about colours as a starter
3. a small text about pets with questions
4. an introduction about pets
5. games to practice the language (Hidden game, slapping the board game, unscrambling words)
6. a grammar point about feminine and masculine words
7. adjectives about pets (matching up, definition about pets/animals)
8. speaking activities (survey, pair work)
9. a reading task
10. a writing task
Enjoy !!!
Shopping in a market is a great topic to teach students about different topics: food items, prices, quantities, engaging in conversations are just some examples of what you will find in this resource.
Your students will love this resource full of fun games, videos and interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1 level groups (pre-intermediate) but it can be adapted to a wider audience. Note that some activities are more challenging to allow more differentiation in class. All the activities are corrected to save you time AND you get clear explanations at the bottom of each slide to guide your teaching progression!
⭐ Here’s what you’ll get in this 28-slide PPT: ⭐
A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson then…
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about summer
A video about a market in the south of France with elements to identify and questions
A matching up between pictures and words related to shopping in markets
a shopping list to complete with food items and then quantities
An activity to put food items under categories
A reading activity with a conversation at the market to re-organize
A grammar point about the imperative with exercises
A writing-speaking activity in pairs
A battleships activity in pairs
A fortune teller game as a plenary
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
Hi everyone,
This powerpoint presentation that contains 15 slides with famous people with disabilities is aimed at raising students awareness about disabled people and how much people can do no matter what.
It was designed for teenagers and it worked really really well during Citizenship lessons and assemblies.
It also contains 2 challenges for students to be put in the shoes of disabled people.
I am sure you will like it!
Bonjour!
Here’s a free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found here
Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.
Here is a powerpoint with 6 colourful slides for an assembly or for a lesson. It contains
- introduction to the topic with a rap song about MLK and Black History month and related words
- a song "Buffalo Soldier"
- a quiz
- a true false activity
- a review of objectives
Full version with student exercise can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/black-history-month-celebration-resources-student-activities-11138470
Here’s a lesson starter about days, months and seasons with 6 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up about seasons
- a wordsearch about months
- a matching up about days
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/days-month-seasons-in-french-lesson--activity-no-prep--jours-mois-saisons-en-fran-ais-11043304
A Powerpoint presentation with 15 pages underlining the importance of learning languages. To be used at the beginning of the year to highlight why it is important to have other languages rather than just English. It contains
- a starter with 3 questions (True or Myth) about languages and the correction
- an introduction with different celebrities able to speak other languages.
- information about where French, Spanish and German are spoken and some of the reasons why it is vital to have more than English as a language.
- three short videos (1 where French is spoken, 2 a touristic video about Germany, 3 a young polyglot girl )
- a reflexive slide where students chose 2 reasons why learning a language is vital.
Bonjour à tous,
When you travel to France with your students, have you noticed how they seem to have forgotten everything? Travelling to another country can be daunting, so if you want your students to be able to communicate, here's an easy to use survival guide.
It contains 23 pages /including the presentation with
- survival phrases with the pronunciation
- basic topic vocabulary (greetings, introduction, family, where you live, shopping for food, eating and drinking, food items, shopping for clothes, directions and ordering a meal)
- monuments not to miss in Paris
- a subway map
It can be used on your tablets/phones while travelling which makes it easy to use at any time. You can also use it in class as a preparation for your trip. It can also be used for anybody that wants to travel to France. My colleagues actually loved it!
Enjoy et bon voyage!
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. How about a resource with a fun context, some music, explanations, exercises and correction in just one place to make things easier?
Here’s a flexible resource to help you teach about the present conditional in French and have fun while teaching it!
You will find a step-by-step powerpoint with 22 slides (with guiding notes at the bottom of each slide) with a relevant context for the lesson, a clearly explained and progressive grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
This resource is aimed at intermediate students but you can easily adapt it for pre-intermediate or advanced students.
You will also get the handout with 6 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
The resource contains:
1. A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson
2. A starter with a speaking activity about hypothetical decisions
3. A song to introduce the conditional with questions and lyrics filling gap
4. An explanation about the different uses of the conditional tense with clear examples
5. An explanation about the formation of the conditional
6. Introduction to the most irregular verbs
7. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, sentences to complete, sentences to change from present to imperfect, matching up between texts and pictures)
8. A survey as a plenary
9. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the conditional tense!
Check my store for more for resources about grammar and tenses here:
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Future lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Imperfect Tense lesson and exercices No Prep
Bonjour!
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides designed for beginners, pre-intermediate about body parts along with its booklet of 8 pages.
It contains:
* a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
* a self-target setting slide
* a starter with a video and questions to trigger their speaking skills
* an introduction of parts of the face and body (lot of vocabulary allowing extension for most able)
* lots of speaking games to drill the language (disappearing game, ping-pong game, guessing game, simon says, drawing game in pairs etc.)
* matching up activities
* labelling the pictures
* a reading with questions
* a wordsearch.
Lots of fun!
French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain in French how the whole political system works. You will find in this resource all the tools you need to help your students understand the role of the President and the voting process. They will also learn about the different official candidates for 2017. They will get an overview of the programs of the 5 main candidates and will get to grasps with what a political party is and the influence of the media on the political elections.
Here is what you will get in this resources:
a 20-slide PPT with:
- a brainstorming as starter
- an overview of the way the political system works with a graph with explanations about the roles of the President, Prime Minister, National Assembly, Senate etc.
- a presentation of the former Presidents with a matching up
- explanations about the advantages of becoming a president with a video to apply as a candidate
- explanations about the main concerns for French people
- an introduction to the main candidates with a reading and matching up
- a critical explanation about how the media can shape/influence politics
- an explanation about what the Left Wing/Right Wing is
- a review of objectives in pairs
Have fun!
Beginners in English usually like telling about where they come from and where they live. How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about places (city, village, countryside…), types of accommodation (house, flat, farm…) and grammar points there is/are with vocabulary of places (traffic, pollution, cars, parks…) and likes/dislikes related to places and accommodations (beautiful, quiet, noisy…). This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 30 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- Texts with questions
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Reading activity with matching up
- Vocabulary activities about places
- Matching up activities (places, accommodations)
- Classification of likes/dislikes and reasons
- Reading activity with pictures to circle/cross out
- Grammar point about there is/are
- Describing activity with drawing in pairs
- A writing
- A word search
- Review of objectives
Have fun!
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. How about a resource with a fun context, some music, explanations, exercises and correction in just one place to make things easier?
Here’s a flexible resource to help you teach about the present conditional in French and have fun while teaching it!
You will find a step-by-step powerpoint with 22 slides (with guiding notes at the bottom of each slide) with a relevant context for the lesson, a clearly explained and progressive grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
This resource is aimed at intermediate students but you can easily adapt it for pre-intermediate or advanced students.
You will also get the handout with 6 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
The resource contains:
1. A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson
2. A starter with a speaking activity about hypothetical decisions
3. A song to introduce the conditional with questions and lyrics filling gap
4. An explanation about the different uses of the conditional tense with clear examples
5. An explanation about the formation of the conditional
6. Introduction to the most irregular verbs
7. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, sentences to complete, sentences to change from present to imperfect, matching up between texts and pictures)
8. A survey as a plenary
9. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the conditional tense!
Check my store for more for resources about grammar and tenses here:
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Future lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Imperfect lesson and exercices No Prep
Hi everyone,
Teaching tenses and especially the pluperfect in French can be difficult but here’s a resource that should help you teach the pluperfect tense in a dynamic way. This introductory lesson is aimed at teenagers and adults but it can be adapted for the needs of children. It contains a powerpoint with 6 slides
Here’s what you get:
1. The lesson starts with a reading activity where students need to identify the verbs and make suggestions about the use and formation of the verbs.
2. The teacher introduces the utilization of the pluperfect tense
3. The teacher introduces the formation of the tense according to the three groups but also the formation with the use of être/avoir and the agreements
I suggest you use the complete version for more efficiency with your students!
Looking for more tense in French, don't forget to check my French Grammar Bundle all in one
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Teaching beginners in English is great fun but there is so much content to teach that we are not always clear where to start.
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about family, physical description (face and shape) and a grammar point about the verb HAVE. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 31 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative with 2 listening activities and multiple opportunities for speaking to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains a grammar point and interactive reading activities reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about personality adjectives and family members with a picture to label and a reading as a starter
- A listening/reading with a matching up
- Classification activities for adjectives
- An introduction to descriptive elements of the face (eyes, hair)
- A grammar point with the verb HAVE with examples
- Exercises (matching up Q/A, filling gap)
- Introduction to description elements of shape
- A listening activity about a movie review
- Interactive reading activities with a guessing game description
- 2 writing activities
- a word search as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 1 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Check Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com