Great end of term game for Teacher vs Students. Six categories with five questions in each. Both T and S give their answers and then answer is revealed on screen. Great fun.

A simple blank fact file to guide students to find important and useful information about the four different countries of the UK.

A PPT lesson guiding students through what a relative clause is, creating relative clauses, and how to use them to good effect in creative writing. This took my international students 2 x 1 hour lessons, but for native speaking students it may be a bit lesson, but could easily be two lessons with peer reviewing of creative writing and feedback etc.

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.

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 PPT which walks students through the different parts of the CAE speaking test and what is required of them, including example questions for each part. This was a whole lesson for my class when I gave them time to practice and feedback on each part too.

Prompting questions for someone observing an experienced teacher. Designed for someone doing Assessment Only Route to QTS, or a teacher analysing another teacher’s class for professional development PDR. Could also be really useful for new teachers, future teachers or trainee teachers.

A guide which helps break down the PET Writing mark scheme making it easier for students to self-mark or peer assess, help new teachers to the Preliminary course or just help teachers speed up their marking and simplify their feedback. Focusing only on Email and Article - not the story. Designed for the post-2020 updated course.

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.

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.

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.

I made this PPT for a CLIL lesson with international students. It introduces the idea of cause and effect in Geography, and how we can use the first conditional for talking about causes and effects.

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 student sits with their back to the board. A word appears on the board behind them. The members of their team can each give a one-word clue to help the student guess the word behind them.

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.

A worksheet designed for a 1:1 literacy class with a primary student. Aimed to develop reading comprehension, story telling and writing skills. Would work well within a young learner EAL classroom too.

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 vocabulary worksheet for pre-A1 young learners. The worksheet covers rooms in the house, as well as furniture and common things found inside homes. ESL Worksheet.

Worksheet designed for nationality nouns and adjectives for different countries around the world. Can be used with ESL Learners A1/A2/B1.

Learners sort words/phrases and sentence starters into different categories; Involving the Reader, Giving Your Opinion, Making the Article Interesting, Linking Words, Making Suggestions/Recommendations and Developing Your Points. Made for A2.2/B1+ PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students but could also be used for native students.