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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
Here’s a nice presentation with 7 slides to teach English - a basic/elementary level.
The lesson is aimed at teenagers, young adults or adults with little or no English at all. It is all about giving them confidence in learning this new language. So whatever their mothertongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about what they have learned in Unit 1 lesson 1 about countries/nationalities, the alphabet and basic questions
2. An interactive activity with a forum where students can read about another student telling about why English is important for him. Students need to recognize cognates.
3. A writing activity about why English is important for them
4. A review about the alphabet pronunciation and IPA with a text message to decipher
5. An introduction to numbers with a matching up
This is a lesson starter/preview of Learn about number / Basic questions / Recognizing cognates resources / Filling a form
Here’s powerpoint with 33 slides and its booklet with 12 pages to teach about the New Year
is celebrated around the world. It is aimed at ESL students but it is suitable for any subjects to bring some cultural awareness in the classroom. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video as a starter
- an introduction to the different customs and traditions around the world for New Year (In Europe, the USA, Japan, in South America, for Jewish people, for Hindu people etc.)
- a quiz with answers and 2 rounds
- a reading with filling gaps
- a resolutions writing activity
- a word search
- an activity with letters to unscramble as plenary
Happy New Year
The 1st round of the French Presidential elections is done. The French have voted for their 2 favorite candidates. They have 15 days to convince the French with their political visions and programmes. However, this is sometimes a little bit tricky to explain to our students who may have little knowledge about the politics or about the electoral process.
This resource will help you teach about the elections by putting the results into the French context and by explaining the birth of each political party and the programmes of these two potential presidential leaders.
This resource totally in English is aimed at intermediate-advanced level students. This resource contains a PPT with 25 slides with different activities with videos, questions and articles. It also contains a booklet with 11 pages for students so that they can keep a track of their learning.
All the activities are corrected to save you time. Here's what you will get:
1. a matching up activity with the 5 main political parties that were competing (texts with main ideas and political trends).
2. a true/false activity about the political campaign
3. an interview with Marine Le Pen followed by questions
4. Marine Le Pen’s video clip with questions to help students develop their critical thinking skills
5. A mini-biography to reorder about Marine Le Pen
6. A reading about the history of the FN and how it is presented now
7. An interview about Emmanuel Macron and his program with questions, again to let your students think about the his programme and vision
8. A brainstorming about what students may know about him
10. a mini-biography to reorder about Emmanuel Macron
11. A text giving some insight about his Party En Marche
12. The results as a conclusion
Enjoy. I am sure it will help you teach about the elections and their importance not only in France but also on the international scene.
I suggest you also use this resource that gives you a clear idea of the political system in France.
French Election System
Who doesn't like a story? We all do. Now what makes a good story teller? How can we use stories in lessons?
This presentation with 32 slides will help you develop your skills as a storyteller with your class. It contains:
1. an overview of the theme covered in the presentation
2. a brainstorming about telling stories
3. an explanation about why we tell stories and the benefits of storytelling in the class
4. a brainstorming about the kind of stories we can tell
5. 4 videos about types of stories
6. reflection about purpose of stories
7.step by step explanation on how to tell stories (atmosphere, facial expressions, choice of story etc.)
8. a video about Narnia
9. pair work practice about developing an atmosphere
10. pair work about describing emotions through facial expressions
11. pair or group work about delivering a storytelling
12. further ideas for storytelling
13. review of objectives!
Enjoy and have fun telling stories!!
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The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. If you need to teach the imperfect tense but you are not quite sure where to start, this flexible resource will help you.
You will find a step-by-step powerpoint (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 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 story to reorder and verbs to identify
3. An explanation about the different uses of the imperfect tense with clear examples
4. An explanation about the formation of the imperfect
5. Introduction to the verb ÊTRE, -CER verbs, GER verbs
6. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, word search, sentences to complete, sentences to change from singular to plural form)
7. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the imperfect tense!
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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
Beginners in English are always eager to communicate about their job, daily routine and personality. How about having an interactive lesson in context with 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 jobs and the daily routine. It also contains a recap about adjectives of personality and the simple present. 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 13 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:
- A recap about personality adjectives with letters to reorder and a matching up
- Videos with questions (to introduce the jobs and the verbs of the daily routine)
- Matching up (between jobs and personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs (ranking activity, survey, interview)
- Reading activity based on a forum and ads
- 1 grammar points followed by an exercise about jobs
- Writing activities
- Games (noughts and crosses and Bingo)
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 physical description and verb to have
Beginners in English are always eager to communicate about their job, daily routine and personality. How about having an interactive lesson in context with 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 jobs and the daily routine. It also contains a recap about adjectives of personality and the simple present. 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 13 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:
- A recap about personality adjectives with letters to reorder and a matching up
- Videos with questions (to introduce the jobs and the verbs of the daily routine)
- Matching up (between jobs and personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs (ranking activity, survey, interview)
- Reading activity based on a forum and ads
- 1 grammar points followed by an exercise about jobs
- Writing activities
- Games (noughts and crosses and Bingo)
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
When we teach beginners in English one of the first lessons is about family and description with the use of the verb BE. 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, age, personality description and grammar points about the verb BE and adjectives. 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 28 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 11 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:
- A recap about self-introduction with questions to answer and to be created
- Matching up (about family members, age, personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Family trees
- Classification activities for adjectives
- Reading activity
- Guessing game about family members
- 2 grammar points followed by exercises and correction (BE and adjectives)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 5
to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Need more ESL lesson Check Unit 1 :
Unit1 Lesson1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit1 lesson2 Number and basic question
Unit1 Lesson3 Food, like and opinions
Unit1 Lesson4 Hobbies and adverbs of frequency
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Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about places, activities and adverbs of frequency. If you need to introduce activities people do on the weekend with the use of adverbs of frequency, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 12 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way.
This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains a powerpoint with 33 slides and an activity booklet for students with 12 pages with:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 3 about food, likes and opinions
2. a quiz about different places in the world
3. videos
- video about London,
- video about China
- video about Rio de Janeiro with questions
4. texts about people to discover what they do on their weekends
5. a comprehension grid
6. a matching up activity
7. a grammar point about adverbs of frequency
8. a practice about the present simple with the use of adverbs of frequency
9. a writing activity
10. a speaking game as a plenary
11. a review of objectives
Enjoy!
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Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 country and nationality, like and opinion
ESL Unit1 Lesson 2
Learn about number / Basic questions / Recognizing cognates / Filling a form
Here’s a nice presentation with 40 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English - a basic/elementary level. The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
So if you need to teach your students about numbers up to 10, answering basic personal questions, learning about the verb “BE” and have them to fill in a form, here you are! This interactive lesson will help you developed these skills. All 4 skills are also embedded.
The lesson is aimed at teenagers, young adults or adults with little or no English at all. It is all about giving them confidence in learning this new language. So whatever their mother tongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about what they have learned in Unit 1 lesson 1 the alphabet and basic questions
2. An interactive activity with a forum where students can read about other students telling about why English is important for them. Students need to recognize cognates.
3. A writing activity about why English is important for them
4. A review about the alphabet pronunciation and IPA with a text message to decipher
5. An introduction to numbers with a matching up
6. 3 short listening activities with filling gaps
7. A reading/writing activity to fill in a form
8. Questions to reorder
9. Questions and answers to match up
10. A grammar point about word order for questions and answers
11. A second grammar point about the verb BE
12. A form to fill for themselves
13. Questions to ask their partner to practice their questions/answers
14. Review of objectives
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
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Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about food, nationalities and countries (review from lesson 1), likes and opinions. If you need to introduce likes, dislikes, opinions, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 16 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way. This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 2
2. an introduction to recap about countries and food items
3. a video about food in the world
4. a recap about what people eat according to the different countries
5. a recap about questions for nationalities and countries with celebrities guessing- including a video about a chef cooking
6. a grammar point about he/she -his/her followed by 3 practices
7.a video to recap about food but especially to introduce the adjectives of opinions
8. an activity with opinions to complete
9. 2 speaking activities about International food so that students can reuse the opinion words
10. reading activities about if people like cooking or not with a comprehension grid
11. a writing activity
12. a survey
13. a review of objectives
Enjoy! Check and follow my store for more resources!
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about places, activities and adverbs of frequency. If you need to introduce activities people do on the weekend with the use of adverbs of frequency, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 12 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way.
This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains a powerpoint with 33 slides and an activity booklet for students with 12 pages with:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 3 about food, likes and opinions
2. a quiz about different places in the world
3. videos
- video about London,
- video about China
- video about Rio de Janeiro with questions
4. texts about people to discover what they do on their weekends
5. a comprehension grid
6. a matching up activity
7. a grammar point about adverbs of frequency
8. a practice about the present simple with the use of adverbs of frequency
9. a writing activity
10. a speaking game as a plenary
11. a review of objectives
Enjoy!
Enjoy! Check and follow my store for more resources!
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
Teaching grammar and vocabulary to beginners in ESL is not always easy. By the time we complete a Unit, many students will have forgotten important vocabulary and grammar points! So consolidation of the knowledge is absolutely vital!
How about having all the grammar and vocabulary in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply clicking on the buttons in the content page!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- family
- personality
- physical description
- jobs
- workplaces
- daily routine
Grammar:
- Nouns (a, an and plural)
- Possessive’s
- To HAVE/to BE
- Adjectives
Each slide of the 34-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, matching-up, choosing the right option, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Check others lesson of this Unit :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Unit 2 Lesson 4 Job and workplace
Teaching grammar and vocabulary to beginners in ESL is not always easy. By the time we complete a Unit, many students will have forgotten important vocabulary and grammar points! So consolidation of the knowledge is absolutely vital!
How about having all the grammar and vocabulary in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply clicking on the buttons in the content page!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- family
- personality
- physical description
- jobs
- workplaces
- daily routine
Grammar:
- Nouns (a, an and plural)
- Possessive’s
- To HAVE/to BE
- Adjectives
Each slide of the 34-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, matching-up, choosing the right option, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Check other lesson of this Unit :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Unit 2 Lesson 4 Job and workplace
Chinese New Year Celebration.
This full lesson will give you the tools to discuss with you ESL student about Chinese New year (NO Prep)
it's a presentation with 45 slides and its student activity booklet with 11 pages so that students can learn about China, the Chinese New Year, adjectives, comparatives and superlatives. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a brainstorming as a starter with a map world so that students can identify where China is
- a true/false questionnaire with answers available interactively within a click
- a video about which students take notes
- a multiple choice questionnaire about the Chinese New Year with corrections
- an introduction to Zodiac signs with their characteristics
- an activity about identifying adjectives with corrections
- a grammar point about the comparative forms
- an exercise about the comparative with correction
- a grammar point about the superlative forms
- an exercise about the superlative forms with correction
- a writing activity as a plenary
- a review of objectives
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When teaching about the house for beginners in English there are so many ways that it is difficult to know 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 rooms in the house and adjectives to describe the rooms. There is also a review about there is/there are and opinions. 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 8 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 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:
- Texts with comprehension grid
- Ads with True/False activity
- Speaking in pairs
- Listening/reading to introduce rooms in the house
- Matching up between rooms and definitions
- Vocabulary activities about places
- Where is the cat? game
- Speaking in pairs with drawing
- Adjectives antonyms matching up
- Text with filling gaps
- Writing activity
- Role play
- Decipher the sentence game as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 3 lesson 1 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 3 Lesson 1 Where I live ?
Here’s a freebie about why learning a foreign language with 6 slides. It contains:
- an objective slide
- a matching up activity
- a true/myth activity with answers
- a celebrity slide with celebrities speaking many languages
- reasons why learning an MFL is important
The full version can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/why-learn-foreign-language-assembly-11113847
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the freebie of the new lesson about food, nationalities and countries (review from lesson 1), likes and opinions.
If you need to introduce likes, dislikes, opinions, this new lesson is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 16 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way. This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience.
This freebie contains 7 slides with :
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 2
2. an introduction to recap about countries and food items
3. a video about food in the world
4. a recap about what people eat according to the different countries
5. a recap about questions for nationalities and countries with celebrities guessing
6. a grammar point about he/she
This is a starter/preview of
Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion