Using advanced words for describing how people look can be a challenge for ESL students. They often resort to familiar, but very simple words to describe appearance.
But now you have a ready-made solution to that problem!
To boost your learners’ vocabulary for describing appearance, use this bundle which contains revision and practice activities for a wide range of vocabulary for describing appearance, including facial features, skin, build, hair and hairstyles, clothes and accessories.
The bundle includes:
a presentation and matching cards game with high-quality photos that student can describe to practice the new vocabulary
a guessing game that will helps student practice target vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and grammar, all while having fun
The presentation
With excellent visuals and key words, this presentation will help your learners take that step forward and move away from simple, everyday vocabulary towards more nuanced and native-like expressions.
The game
This interactive game is an excellent way to combine vocabulary learning with practicing speaking and listening skills and grammar. The game is based on a ready-made inclusive presentation that presents high quality images of people from different backgrounds. Your students will ask and answer questions about the people in the photos, pay attention to even the slightest details and practice incorporating high-level, nuanced vocabulary into their everyday conversations and writing.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, with this bundle, you will be able to teach about describing people with a resource that promotes diversity by including people of different races, religions, ages and abilities.
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Reviews are a challenging form of persuasive writing for many students.
There is a lot that goes into writing a review, and it can be hard to find
a comprehensive resource that covers all the basic elements of this type of text, include genre conventions and text features, language characteristics and typical review structure.
Well, this presentation might just be what you’re looking for!
With more than 50 slides, it provides in-depth information about various aspects of review writing.
The presentation helps student learn about:
Text features of reviews:
Audience (typical audiences for different types of reviews)
Purpose (why we write reviews and how they help people)
Tailoring the review to the target audience (how to adapt the tone, content and examples in the review to different audiences)
Register (formal, informal and neutral reviews and their characteristics)
Subjectivity (how subjective opinions shape reviews)
Facts and evidence (the need to corroborate opinions with verified facts and evidence)
Audience engagement (how to get and keep the attention of the target audience)
Language of reviews:
Descriptive language (how descriptive language helps improve the quality of the review)
Persuasive language (how persuasive appeals and techniques help improve the quality of the review)
Jargon and specialist terminology (when and why they may be used)
Vivid verbs and adjectives (how they help make the review more informative and persuasive)
Evaluative lexis (what types of evaluative lexis can be used to express opinions about the subject of the review)
Structure of reviews:
Typical review structure (title, introduction, evaluation and analysis, conclusion, rating)
Title (what is its purpose and what techniques to use to achieve that purpose)
Introduction (key elements of the introduction and their purpose)
Evaluation and analysis (key elements in the main part and their purpose:
Conclusion (the purpose and form of a well-written conclusion
Learning about these various elements of review writing helps prepare students for their future academic studies and career by helping them develop critical thinking skills, research and communication skills and opinion formation. These skills are crucial for their future careers as they help them form informed opinions based on solid research and articulate them in a clear and persuasive manner.
This phenomenal bundle provides you with the materials to teach and practice 12 different persuasive techniques, their definitions, examples and effects.
The bundle consists of:
presentation with detailed information about each of the 12 persuasive techniques (with detailed teacher’s notes)
matching cards that enable students to revise and practice what they learned in the presentation
Together, these two resources help your students learn about persuasive techniques quickly and effectively.
PRESENTATION
For successful argumentative writing and analysis, students need to be very familiar with persuasive devices.
This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:
alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.
The techniques are organized into a simple, easy-to-remember acronym:
A RIPE FOREST.
The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.
This helps students understand:
what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.
MATCHING CARDS
Understanding the definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing. Students often struggle to grasp these concepts and apply that knowledge in their own writing and analysis. This set of matching cards that can be used for revision and practice is an excellent way to your students build a strong foundation in understanding how different persuasive devices work.
The set focuses on the following persuasive techniques (contained in the acronym A RIPE FOREST):
alliteration
anecdote
rhetorical questions
imperative
personal pronouns
exaggeration/hyperbole
facts
opinions
repetition
emotive language
statistics
triplets/list of three
The set consists of:
12 technique cards
12 definition cards
36 example cards (three for each technique)
27 effects cards (some effects can apply to several different techniques)
This big new persuasive writing bundle includes six excellent resources to help your students understand persuasive writing and using different rhetorical techniques and appeals and apply that knowledge in real life:
Persuasive techniques presentation
Persuasive techniques posters
Advertisement analysis project
Persuasive letter worksheets (digital and printable)
Speech analysis stations: Frederick Douglass 4th July speech
Guided article analysis stations
The bundle includes:
a 38-slide presentation with detailed teacher’s notes
an engaging interactive Kaboom! game with 60 revision questions
12 posters with definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques
a motivating advertisement analysis project that helps student understand how persuasion works in real life
detailed ready-to-go printable and digital worksheets for analyzing a persuasive letter
a ready-made stations activity for analysing Frederick dogulss ‘What to the American Slave is 4th July’ speech
a ready-made stations activity for article analysis
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES PRESENTATION
This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:
alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.
The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.
This helps students understand:
what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES POSTERS
All 12 beautiful and informative posters include the definition of the technique, several examples (from everyday speech and literature) and the possible effects the use of the technique has on the reader (how it helps persuade the reader).
The posters are an excellent visual reminder that helps students review and revise the key elements of persuasive writing.
ADVERTISEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT
This exciting infomercial analysis project helps students apply their persuasive analysis skills by analyzing infomercials featuring well-known celebrities and familiar products.
The project includes:
a step-by-step guide
a detailed graphic organizer for guided analysis
a curated YouTube playlist with 14 carefully-chosen infomercials
a grading rubric
PERSUASIVE LETTER ANALYSIS WORKSHEETS
With these worksheets, students analyze how writers adapt their letters to their target audience and how they use persuasive appeals and techniques.
The lesson includes:
an original persuasive letter
a set of worksheets for analyzing appealing to target audience, use of persuasive appeals and use of persuasive techniques (print and digital versions)
teacher instructions
detailed answer keys (print and digital versions)
A FREE BONUS:
My original videos on persuasive techniques: Persuasive techniques playlist
Each video contains the definition, examples from everyday life and famous persuasive texts and effects the technique has on the readers. Excellent as exam-prep or simple revision.
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If you need a practice activity for describing how people look with high-quality images that can be described using a wide range of vocabulary, look no further. This guessing game will keep the whole class engaged and active.
The game can be used to practice appearance vocabulary (including facial features, build, hair color and styles, jewelry, accessories, clothes) at any level, as well as simple grammar (Present Simple and Present Continuous). The students can practice statements, questions, negatives and short answers.
Guessing (twenty questions) game instructions:
Ask for a volunteer
Show the first slide with the pictures
The volunteer chooses one of the pictures on the slide without telling other students which picture he/she chose
Students ask yes/no questions to figure out which picture the volunteer chose (e.g. Is it a man or a woman? Does he have a beard? Does he have a mustache? Is he wearing glasses? Is he wearing a blue T-shirt)
The student who correctly guesses the picture gets to be the one who chooses the next picture.
After a few rounds, change the slide and repeat the procedure with the next slide.
Students need to actively listen to each other to reach the aim of the game.
They practice listening and speaking skills, grammar and vocabulary, all at once!
It’s suitable for older children, teenagers and adults. It can be used with any level, and the level of complexity of vocabulary will depend on you and your students.
The game can be played as a whole class or in pairs or groups.
No prep needed!
The presentation includes more than 80 high-quality images of people from all around the world. The pictures have been carefully chosen to include people from different walks of life and different cultures. They can be used to promote inclusivity and diversity, and you can develop valuable discussions around identity and the dangers of stereotyping.
Some ideas for extension activities:
After several students have taken their turn picking out one of the photos from a slide, before moving onto the next slide, you could have a short discussion about the people in the photos. For example, you could ask students whose style they like the most, who they identify the most with, who they would like to meet, what kinds of obstacles (or perks) people in the photos encounter due to their appearance…
For homework, students can be asked to write descriptions of one person from each slide.
You can ask students to write a diary entry from the daily routine of a person in the photo or have them make a social media profile for the person based on the photo. You or the students can easily find the blank templates for fake (educational) social media accounts online. You can ask the students to present the profiles in the next class.
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These beautiful posters help your students finally understand the differences between tricky commonly confused word pairs such as effect/affect, lie/lay and accept/except.
Key Features:
The posters focus on 10 commonly confused word pairs. Each poster provides the spelling, part of speech, definition and examples of each word. The words are explained in pairs, enabling students to compare and contrast the words in each pair.
Versatile Usage: Whether you’re an ELA or ESL educator, this resource is adaptable to both settings. Its comprehensive approach ensures that students of varying language proficiency levels can benefit from a stronger grasp of commonly confused words.
Word pairs included in this resource:
lay/lie, lose/loose, compliment/complement, advice/advise, stationary/stationery, allude/elude, accept/except, further/farther, affect/effect, and principle/principal.
If your upper-intermediate or advanced ESL students are struggling to find the right words to describe their feelings and precisely express their emotions in speaking and writing, this presentation is just what you need!
With more than 40 words and definitions, this resource will help your students take their vocabulary to the next level. Rather than using simple and general words which bear little meaning (sad, angry, happy, surprised), students will learn how to express themselves with precision.
The words are divided into different categories, depending on the feeling they express.
But it doesn’t stop there!
To practice using the words in real-life conversations, all words are accompanied with varied and engaging conversation questions. These discussion starters will get your students talking and using the target vocabulary, as well as other words related to emotions.
This stations activity pack helps students analyze the literary and rhetorical devices in one of the greatest speeches Frederick Douglass’, his 4th July speech.
In this engaging activity, students collaborate to analyze the use of different persuasive devices and figures of speech in five extracts from Douglass’ speech.
In this collaborative environment, they are able to work together to do a rigorous in-depth analysis of some of the most prominent parts of the speech, examining how Douglass addressed his audience and modified his tone to persuade his readers that slavery is an abhorrent practice.
Included in this activity pack are:
A short presentation about Frederick Douglass and his 4th July speech
Five passages of Frederick Douglass’ 4h July speech in color OR in black-and-white for easy printing
Five full-color worksheets to accompany the passages OR five black-and white task cards
Station numbers (in color OR black and white)
Teacher instructions
Student instructions
Detailed answer keys for all worksheets/task cards
The materials are all ready to go, just print and you’re off to class!
Intermediate and upper-intermediate students often resort to simple vocabulary for describing people.
This presentation and matching card game will help them learn new vocabulary to describe people with easy and precision!
This fully editable no-prep activity includes high-quality photos of diverse people to engage students and help them improve their vocabulary and speaking skills-
Instructions:
Turn on the projector and you’re ready!
Show students the photo of a person and ask them to describe him/her using the vocabulary hey already know. Then show the next slide with the photo accompanied by new words and phrases. Elicit or explain the meaning of the phrases.
At the end, practice the vocabulary using the matching cards game or start over and have students describe people using the new words that they’ve learned.
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Knowing genre conventions is an important aspect of being able to write well. This comprehensive booklet offers detailed information about the typical features of newspaper articles, as well as practical exercises for reading articles.
This resource contains:
Text features of newspaper articles
Layout features
Dos and don’ts of article introductions
Language features
Article reading skills worksheet with questions that work with any article
Sample article + worksheet + key
Additional article resources
Writing, structure and resource tips
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The language of advertisements is packed with different persuasive techniques and appeals. All your student can learn and practice how persuasive language is used in a real-world setting in this easy-to-use, no-prep project.
The project focuses on analyzing persuasive techniques and appeals in infomercials or other kinds of advertisements. It’s designed in such a way that every student, regardless of their level of knowledge can show his/her full potential and participate actively. The infomercials add an element of engagement an fun that will engage even the most reluctant of learners.
The project can be used for assessment or as an exercise aimed at helping students practice analyzing the use of persuasive language in advertisements.
This bundle includes:
A guide that provides all the preparation you need for this
project
A detailed advertisement analysis graphic organizer
A ready-made curated YouTube playlist of carefully selected
infomercials chock-full of different persuasive techniques for
students to analyze
A student sign-up table
A grading rubric
An extension activity idea – student-created infographics that
present their learning in a visual way
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Do you teach upper intermediate or advanced ESL students who need help with practicing and revising more precise, high-level words for describing personality traits?
Look no further, these worksheets have everything you need in a clear, easy-to-understand format.
The pack includes:
2 sets of worksheets /a beautiful colorful one and a practical, printer-friendly black-and-white one/
the answer key
Adjectives included in the worksheets:
orderly, meticulous, conscientious, dependable, sensible, detached, considerate, determined, steadfast, empathetic, sympathetic, compassionate, observant, reticent, gregarious, ingenious, straightforward, tactful, versatile, assertive, resourceful, matter-of-fact, down-to-earth (+sociable, outgoing, extroverted, genial, affable, withdrawn, reserved, introverted, bashful, timid, sensitive, dedicated, committed, resolute)
Before practicing the adjectives, you can help the students learn them all using this fantastic presentation.
You can get both the presentation and the worksheets in this bundle.
These resources go great with my bundle for describing appearance!
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This 40-slide presentation delves into more than 100 essential upper-intermediate crime-related words and expressions, empowering your students to communicate confidently and accurately while discussing the topic of crime in English.
The presentation consists of three parts:
Crime vocabulary
Punishment vocabulary
Other-crime related words
Each crime vocabulary slide contains:
an image related to the crime
the word and definition
verb and/or criminal related to the crime
The words and expressions included in the presentation:
Crime vocabulary:
abduction/kidnapping, arson, assault, blackmail, burglary, corruption, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, fraud, hijacking, mugging, money laundering, murder, perjury, pickpocketing, robbery, shoplifting, slander, smuggling, theft
Punishment vocabulary:
capital punishment/death penalty, community service, corporal punishment, fine, prison sentence/imprisonment/incarceration, life sentence, suspended sentence, parole, probation, solitary confinement
Other words related to crime:
trial, judge, jury, witness, defendant, plaintiff, perpetrator, suspect, attorney, defense lawyer, prosecutor, testimony, bail, verdict, extenuating circumstances, be charged with, be placed in custody, be found guilty, be convicted of, be sentenced to
After finishing the presentation, have your students practice these expression with a variety of vocabulary, reading, speaking and writing activities included in this crime resource pack.
This bundle includes my crime presentation and resource pack, providing you with everything you need to help your upper intermediate ESL students learn about crime vocabulary. Various vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking activities enable students to use their knowledge to discuss and write about crime in a meaningful and engaging way.
Included in this resource:
**CRIME VOCABULARY PRESENTATION
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This 40-slide presentation delves into more than 100 essential upper-intermediate crime-related words and expressions, empowering your students to communicate confidently and accurately while discussing the topic of crime in English.
The presentation consists of three parts:
Crime vocabulary
Punishment vocabulary
Other-crime related words
Each crime vocabulary slide contains:
an image related to the crime
the word and definition
verb and/or criminal related to the crime
The words and expressions included in the presentation:
Crime vocabulary:
abduction/kidnapping, arson, assault, blackmail, burglary, corruption, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, fraud, hijacking, mugging, money laundering, murder, perjury, pickpocketing, robbery, shoplifting, slander, smuggling, theft
Punishment vocabulary:
capital punishment/death penalty, community service, corporal punishment, fine, prison sentence/imprisonment/incarceration, life sentence, suspended sentence, parole, probation, solitary confinement
Other words related to crime:
trial, judge, jury, witness, defendant, plaintiff, perpetrator, suspect, attorney, defense lawyer, prosecutor, testimony, bail, verdict, extenuating circumstances, be charged with, be placed in custody, be found guilty, be convicted of, be sentenced to
**CRIME RESOURCE PACK
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This comprehensive 15-page crime resource pack filled with a variety of ready-to-use vocabulary, reading, speaking and writing activities givs your students the opportunity to practice crime vocabulary and express themselves creatively.
The resource pack consists of:
Crimes, verbs and criminals table
Reading: a newspaper article
Crime: vocabulary quiz
Crime: crossword
Crime: vocabulary practice
Crime discussion task cards
Murder mystery - a discussion activity
Extended reading: a crime story
**Crimes, verbs and criminals table
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Intended to be used with our Crime vocabulary presentation, but also available as an independent resource, this table helps students learn the words for the actions and criminals who commit a variety of different crimes.
**Reading: a newspaper article
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A reading comprehension exercise which focuses both on reading for gist and reading for detail helps your students practice their reading skills.
**Crime: vocabulary quiz
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The quiz consists of 37 multiple-choice questions that test how well students understand the terms learned in the unit.
**Crime: crossword
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The crossword with 18 clues related to crime vocabulary can be used to revise and practice the target vocabulary, with a special focus on spelling.
**Crime: vocabulary practice
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This fill-in-the gaps activity helps students practice the target vocabulary in context.
**Crime discussion task cards
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The task cards offer different crime-related scenarios, providing students with an ethical dilemma. Students need to engage in discussion and respond to the prompts on the cards, discussing the different aspects of each scenario. They will be asked to discuss various perspectives, explain the suitable punishments for each crime and talk about ways to prevent similar crimes.
**Murder mystery - a discussion activity
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This is an open-ended discussion activity aimed at providing an engaging platform for students to collaborate, practice target vocabulary and express their creativity.
**Extended reading - a crime story
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This is an extended reading activity. The crime story is written at a rather high level and enables students to engage with more complex vocabulary and structures.
A detailed **answer key **for all activities except the last three, which are open-ended, is included in the resource pack.
The resource pack also includes **teacher’s instructions **with suggestions on how to use each of the activities.
Knowing genre conventions is an important aspect of being able to write well. This presentation is a** clear, concise, and visually appealing guide** to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles.
It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout.
Through this presentation, your students will learn:
What articles are
What their audience and purpose are
What register is used when writing articles
What is the structure of an article
Do’s and don’ts of article introductions
How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion
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If your students struggle with reading and writing articles, you need a go-to resource that can help them integrate knowledge and skills to help them finally understand this informational text type. Now you finally have it!
This bundle combines theory and practice to help your students learn to read and write articles effectively.
The bundle consists of an informative presentation and an engaging article analysis stations activity.
Presentation
This presentation is a clear, concise, and visually appealing guide to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles.
It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout.
Through this presentation, your students will learn:
What articles are
What their audience and purpose are
What register is used when writing articles
What is the structure of an article
Do’s and don’ts of article introductions
How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion
Article analysis stations activity
Getting high-school students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge!
This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text.
The questions are grouped into four categories:
Content,
Audience,
Purpose and tone,
Form and structure and Language
This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole.
The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge.
The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity!
A detailed answer key is provided, so no prep is needed on your part!
If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review.
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This resource focuses on vocabulary for upper intermediate students related to traffic problems and issues that drivers can face on dangerous roads.
The lesson is based on the ‘10 roads you would never want to drive on’ video which can be found at this link.
The video is rich in advanced vocabulary related to traffic and traffic problems and is excellent for listening comprehension.
Instructions:
The students watch the video and fill in the worksheet in which they list the problems on each of the roads mentioned in the video
The teacher goes over the results with the students
Based on that listening exercise, the students guess the meaning of the key words from the video (this can be done in pairs or individually)
The teacher shows the presentation with images and definitions of the key vocabulary
Extension activity: Students practice the words using the matching cards included in the resource pack
Resources included:
Listening comprehension worksheet
Vocabulary guessing worksheet
Answer key for both worksheets
Presentation with high-quality images and clear definitions
BONUS file: FREE matching cards
The resource focuses on the following words and expressions:
stretch of road, tide, route, vanish, mistime, slippery, elevation, pothole, twists and turns, pedestrian, guardrail/safety barrier, remote, breakdown, headlights, fatal, head-on collision, erosion, landslide, narrow, blind corner, plummet, infamous, hairpin turns, desolate, featureless, paved, blizzard, altitude, impassable, four-wheel drive