The students must read the word and decide if it is a real or alien word. On the back there is a picture task to help students develop sentence level writing. A good worksheet for low level young learners, can be used as a homework or for independent application of phonics, new vocabulary etc.

The students must read the word and decide if it is a real or alien word. On the back there is a picture task to challenge stronger students to develop sentence level writing or to review target language for weaker students. A good worksheet for low level young learners, can be used as a homework or for independent application of phonics, new vocabulary etc.

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 list of ideas I created when I started teaching online for useful communicative tasks or websites to use. Days of research!

A PPT to support a one hour lesson taught on features of a newspaper and introducing the concept of bias. The lesson was a History CLIL lesson for international students studying about Hitler’s rise to power. The following lesson they created their own newspaper articles considering bias. Realia (in the form of real newspapers) was provided for the students to cut out and stick into their books examples of the features.

A quiz PPT where students need to identify words spelt using the phonemic chart and then spell words using phonemes from the phonemic chart.

A2/B1. A lesson on the topic of technology and inventions covering comparatives and ‘used to’. Ideal for PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students.

A PPT which guides students with vocabulary and sentence structures to describe their city, as well as a city they have been to. Includes vocabulary quizzes, reading tasks, writing tasks, a speaking task, grammar work on articles, there is/are and past simple. Designed for ESL students studying towards the KET exam. Enough to split across two classes.

The students can use their new vocabulary/ target language to create their own real or alien words worksheet. On the back there is space for them to draw a picture and write some sentences about to encourage sentence level writing using new target language. This can be used at the end of any topic as a kind of revision. A good worksheet for low level young learners, can be used as a homework or for independent application of phonics, new vocabulary etc.

Two Christmas-themed group running dictations. The first one features the names of Santa in different countries around the world. Students need to copy them correctly then work to match them. The second they need to copy and colour a picture correctly. Great for using Christmas vocabulary, working as a team and team-building, Christmas End of Term classes, ESL students and all students etc.

An activity for sorting key events in Hitler’s life into the correct order and then matching dates. Answer Key included. Created for a History CLIL class teaching timelines but would be useful for any class teaching about Hitler’s life or an introduction/overview of Hitler.

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.

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.

I made this PPT for classes I was teaching as CLIL for international students. There are elements of reading and listening comprehension.

a “contract” for ESL students to do some “work” over the holidays or breaks to keep their learning fresh in their minds.

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.

A worksheet to help ESL learners prepare for a school interview. For error correction, but also for them to discuss the quality and length of the answers and how important the mistakes are to comprehension. Also a scorecard for practice interviews included.