A 60 page pack of communicative activities for ESL/EAL/EFL teachers. Print off the relevant lesson and go. Loads of activities with communication built in, scaffolded activities, word recognition activities as well as reading and writing activities. Also links to videos.
Topics covered:
Introductions
Countries and Nationalities
Numbers
Classroom instructions
Parts of the body
Colours
Classroom objects
Clothes
Shapes and sizes
Actions – Present Continuous
Daily routines – present simple
Emotions
Jobs
Animals
Family
Prepositions of place
Food and drink
A PPT which breaks down word problems to create simple algebraic equations before solving them.
Funny stories make the questions, so I'd suggest you update the PPT with your students' names.
After you've done this as a class, you can then use the last slides on the PPT to let students have a try, and give them a 2 question worksheet to try alone.
Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly.
Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key.
I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.
Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding.
3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for.
Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages.
Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school.
Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.).
The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!
Newly Updated - further updates coming soon.
This 18 slide presentation breaks down the language surrounding racism with definitions, examples and talking points.
Students will learn what the various terms mean, see examples and give their own examples, before seeing examples from the real world, with photographs in the last few slides.
This is an excellent resource for opening up conversations about race and racism and get students to really think about the different types of racism and how they potentially are contributors to racism themselves through their choice of language.
3 different versions of this popular classic with a twist. Communication, competition, maths and fun all rolled into one. Just print and go.
Students get a board/grid. Draw the ships onto it and then do sums to fire on their target. If they are wrong, their turn is wasted (they have to debate this with their partner). If correct, they hit or miss.
Three versions to allow speedy mathematicians to continue to play while the slower ones just continue with their game.
A line graphs class to teach interpreting and creation of line graphs. Resources for the whole line graphs lesson.
This is a whole lesson for teaching interpretation and making of line charts/graphs.
It begins with an introduction to the key parts of a line graph and examples of independent/dependent variables, gives students a few questions to answer to show understanding and to think about WHY the graph may show what it shows. There is an activity at the end differentiated into 3 groups, with a self checklist for students and an explanation of the answers.
The 60 page Tigerlearn resource pack for beginners, packed full of worksheets/
A pack of controlled practice cards for a whole load of vocabulary
A 6 tense error correction PPT
A possessives review PPT
TWO editable game PPTs including
-AGENT LUCY AND THE ALIEN INVASION, gamify your semester simply by adding your own weekly challenges
-An editable multichoice PPT, just add your own questions
A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake.
Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.
Create worksheets, work books and exams at the click of a button with this fantastic worksheet generator tool.
Instantly randomise all sums with the click of a button and print out the worksheet you need, complete with answer sheets.
Contains worksheet templates to practise a whole host of skills including long and short multiplication and division, column addition and subtraction and a range of mental maths skills.
This tool will save you hours of your time, so you can focus on teaching.
If you are a head of department, you assess a lot of teachers and you need to save some time providing your feedback.
Use this tool to save you hours. Simply add in the most common comments that you make (eg ' This was a very teacher oriented class. I'd like to see some more student-student interaction'), add the names of the teachers and assign which comments you want to appear in the appraisal for which teachers.
Then, print. Job done!
This tool works up to a maximum of 30 teachers and 30 of your comments. If you need more teachers or more comments, simply save a second version of the tool.
Aliens have landed on Earth and Agent Lucy from the British Alien Invasion Team (BAIT) needs your help.
Your students need to defeat the Aliens by taking over the school, one room at a time using only their brains.
This is a delightful PPT introducing a long running game for your students. It explains the idea behind the game and has one example challenge (Create a team logo, following the specifications)
This is a great way to keep kids motivated. Spend the week teaching them and then finish off the week with a challenge based on what they've learned. Excellent for formative assessment.
Easily update the powerpoint with your own challenges and photos of the winning team.
A colleague observation programme that will be a very popular and simple addition to your school professional development programme.
Resource includes;
A peer observation form for teachers. Just watch the class and fill in the gaps. Give face to face feedback based on the patterns you see or the discussion questions at the bottom. [ designed for language teachers. Editable for other subjects]
A simple planner for the programme administrator, choose how many teachers you want to run the programme for, open the relevant spreadsheet (15, 30 or 50 teachers) and input the names into the first column. The spreadsheet updates and you have the teacher observation programme built into your school's PDP for the year.
** Now also includes a staff appraisal report tool **
Six posters breaking down how to use 6 tenses in English - Present simple, Present continuous, Past simple, Past continuous, Future with ‘will’ and Future with ‘Going to’.
Colourful displays to print out and stick up on the wall or into student notebooks (A3 or A4 for the wall, A4 or A5 for the notebooks). The structures allow students to check their own sentence structures and to get their sentences right while they are learning.
A simple PPT lesson which will introduce interpreting and handling data, specifically with relation to column charts/ bar graphs.
It begins by asking students to guess what a blank graph could represent (interpreting data), before moving on to various graphs with questions designed to introduce the vocabulary related to graphs (axis/axes, mode, range) while also interpreting the data.
There is one slide at the end which asks a number of questions to check understanding of the vocabulary and to interpret the graph, and then a final slide which asks students to create their own survey question and think about what the graph could look like.
A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for Grade 2 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time.
Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 2 students.
Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts.
With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills.
Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today.
Texts|Genres
Animals and Ecosystems | Information
Space Adventure | Script
Dinosaurs | Information
The future is fun | Poetry
Acrostic poem about the future| Poetry
How to make a Caesar Cypher| instructions
Mansa Musa | Biography
How to play dodgeball| Instructions
A magical Map| Fiction
Why you should study ancient civilizations | Persuasive
A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for grade 3 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time.
Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 3 students.
Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts.
With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills.
Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today.
Texts|Genres
The Clumsy Witch | Narrative
Planets | Information Text
Cleopatra | Biography
Plant Lifecycle | Poetry
The Roman Empire | Information Text
Protecting the Earth| Poetry
Water | Letter
The Fox and the Robin | Fable
Mastermind | Detective Fiction
The Forest | Narrative
A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time.
This is a bundle of the Grade 2, Grade 3 and Grade 4 Vocabulary Crunch books
Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts.
With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills.
Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today.