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
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
French where we live
Here is a colourful powerpoint with 26 slides and its pdf activity booklet with 8 pages to introduce places (seaside, countryside etc.), likes and dislikes + reasons, where the house is located (next to/far from) + some places in town.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a starter with texts and a true/false
- introductory slides for new vocabulary
- texts to be understood from gist to details
- a classification of opinions and reasons
- matching up exercises etc.
- a unjumble the sentences activity
- writing activities
- speaking activities in pairs
- a grammar point about -er verbs at the present tense
- a review of objectives
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
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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Teaching beginners in English is great fun but there is so much content to teach that we are not always clear 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 family, physical description (face and shape) and a grammar point about the verb HAVE. 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 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative with 2 listening activities and multiple opportunities for speaking to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains a grammar point and interactive reading activities 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 and family members with a picture to label and a reading as a starter
- A listening/reading with a matching up
- Classification activities for adjectives
- An introduction to descriptive elements of the face (eyes, hair)
- A grammar point with the verb HAVE with examples
- Exercises (matching up Q/A, filling gap)
- Introduction to description elements of shape
- A listening activity about a movie review
- Interactive reading activities with a guessing game description
- 2 writing activities
- a word search as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 1 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Check Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Here is a very colorful powerpoint with 27 slides and its booklet with 8 pages about Christmas for ESL beginners.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- 1 video -as a starter to introduce some vocabulary
- information about Christmas
- a True-False activity
- an introduction to the vocabulary through drilling and a missing picture game.
- a word search
- a maze -to free Santa Claus-
- 2 colouring pictures
- a postcard to write for their parents
- a dialogue with Santa Claus to fill in with present wishes
- a song with a filling gap activity and a puzzle as plenary.
I wish you all a very nice Christmas!
Unit 3 MA FAMILLE
Teaching about the family, pets, descriptions in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about family, pets, physical and personality description, opinions, reasons, numbers up to 69 etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- family
- pets
- descriptions
- personality and physical appearance
- opinions and reasons
- numbers
2. Grammar:
¥ negatives
¥ subject pronouns
¥ present tense of avoir and être
¥ review about possessive adjectives (first, second and third persons)
¥ prepositions
¥ agreement of adjectives
¥ numbers 32–69
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
A Powerpoint presentation with 15 pages underlining the importance of learning languages. To be used at the beginning of the year to highlight why it is important to have other languages rather than just English. It contains
- a starter with 3 questions (True or Myth) about languages and the correction
- an introduction with different celebrities able to speak other languages.
- information about where French, Spanish and German are spoken and some of the reasons why it is vital to have more than English as a language.
- three short videos (1 where French is spoken, 2 a touristic video about Germany, 3 a young polyglot girl )
- a reflexive slide where students chose 2 reasons why learning a language is vital.
Here’s a nice presentation with 39 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English for the first time. (Unit1/Lesson1)
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 why it is important to learn English with a fun short video
2. A Truth/Myth activity about learning English
3. A writestorming about countries
4. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
5. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
6. Further practice with countries in Europe (aimed at more proficient students)
7. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
8. A matching up activity between European countries and flags to go further
9. A wordsearch
10. An interactive map with 8 students telling where they come from, which nationality they are, what they study or what they like
11. A comprehension grid to fill in with the texts about the students
12. A country/nationality matching up with a short grammar point about Capital letters and nationalities endings
13. Language work about formal and informal greetings
14. Complete the grid activity with greetings according to the time of the day
15. Introduction to the alphabet with the sign language and 2 audio recorded.
16. Filling the grid activity with words students already know
17. Reordering the conversation activity between two students
18. Filling the gaps with the missing words
19. Practising the conversation in pairs
20. Review of objectives
The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
All the lesson can be used at his full potential offline just download and copy the lesson on your USB key and you can use it in any computer with Powerpoint.
More lessons and unit coming !!! Don't forget to follow my store for the update
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
Bonjour
Want to travel with your students? Here's a nice powerpoint with 26 slides and activity booklet with 9 pages about countries in the world with a specific focus on French speaking countries. It contains:
- a detailed recap of what students should know and an overview of what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about breakfast around the world where students identify the food
- a matching up between food and countries
- a quiz about European countries
- a world map puzzle to reorder in groups
- a grammar point about au, aux, en
- a practice
- a speaking practice filling gap information
- videos about la Francophonie with a True-false activity
- reading about French speaking countries and questions
- review about numbers and introduction to the Euros
- a conversation to reorder at the travel agent's
- a plenary with a word search
Enjoy
Teaching about pets is always fun especially with beginners? Now what can you include to engage your students? Which activities would best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the vocabulary and grammatical needs of your students while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about their pets and give some opinions.
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 32 slides designed for beginners, pre/intermediate about pets and also an activity booklet with 12 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The lesson contains:
- a self-target setting slide to help students own their learning with detailed objectives
- a match up activity about colours as a starter
- a small text about pets with questions
- an introduction OF the vocabulary about pets
- games to practise the language (Hidden game, slapping the board game, unjumbling words)
- a grammar point about feminine and masculine words
- adjectives about pets (matching up, definition about pets/animals)
- speaking activities (survey, pair work)
- a reading task
- a writing task to give them more autonomy
- a review of objectives to make sure they have reached their target
Have fun when teaching Spanish!
Bonjour,
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 38 slides and its activity booklet with 9 pages designed for beginners about food items and meals. It contains
- a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with a dictionary contest
- introduction of items for breakfast, lunch, breaktime and diner.
- guessing games
- a grammar point about partitives (du, de la, de l’)
- reading activities with filling gaps and comprehension grids
- writing activities
- speaking pair works about opinions and justifications
- matching up activities etc.
Enjoy!!!
Food is always an enjoyable topic to teach. Now how can we ensure we engage, challenge and motivate all our students? Which activities would best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the needs of your students while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about food they like and what they eat/drink for breakfast. This resource is also a good way to open up their minds about different types of food depending on different cultures in the world
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 31 slides designed for pre/intermediate students about breakfast items, opinions and the preterit. You’ll also get an activity booklet with 10 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The pack contains:
- a self target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video as a starter to talk about breakfast and opinions
- a dictionary challenge about different type of food
- a second video about breakfast around the world
- introduction to opinions and justifications about food
- introduction to breakfast items
- matching up activity reading
- further reading with frequency adverbs
- speaking activity
- introduction to the verb gustar followed by a practice
- introduction to the preterite use
- writing
- review of objectives
Enjoy! Have fun teaching about food in Spanish!
International Women’s Day is an important celebration worldwide and it is crucial to tell our students about their achievements. For that purpose here’s a presentation with 41 slides in French. It is aimed at intermediate or advanced students and it is interactive to allow a lot of discussion and debates about women’s rights and their impact on society. It contains:
1. a brainstorming with words related to the topic
2. a video that should allow some conversations between students
3. a thinking time about important women figures
4. a matching up with inventions/women
5. a song related as a tribute to women’s achievement with quotes from the song to think about
6. a filling gap activity
7. a quiz about women’s rights
8. a short grammar activity
9. a pair/group work to think about advantages/drawbacks of being a man/woman
10. a matching up with French laws in France about women
11. a reading activity with a filling gap
12. questions related to the text
13. two adds about women leading to a creative activity in groups
14. the story about Aung San Suu Kyi
15. Guessing games
16. Maze as a plenary.
Enjoy!
Bonjour!
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides designed for beginners, pre-intermediate about body parts along with its booklet of 8 pages.
It contains:
* a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
* a self-target setting slide
* a starter with a video and questions to trigger their speaking skills
* an introduction of parts of the face and body (lot of vocabulary allowing extension for most able)
* lots of speaking games to drill the language (disappearing game, ping-pong game, guessing game, simon says, drawing game in pairs etc.)
* matching up activities
* labelling the pictures
* a reading with questions
* a wordsearch.
Lots of fun!
Jobs description
Here is a very colourful powerpoint presentation with 33 slides and its activity booklet with 7 pages to introduce jobs along with feminine and masculine forms in French. It is aimed at beginners-pre/intermediate. It contains:
- a detailed slide with what students know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video as a starter to engage students with some questions
- a matching up activity as a starter with pictures about jobs
- an introduction to the jobs items with repetition
- drilling with games (hiding pictures, missing one, slap the board game)
- a reading activity as guess games in pairs
- a true/false activity
- a grammar point about feminine, masculine words
- a team game with pictures to practice grammar point
- a reading with True/False
- a word search
- a detailed review of objectives
Enjoy!
Here's a nice bundle about Family. It consists of a powerpoint-21 slides and its booklet - 8 pages.
It contains:
It contains:
- a recap slide to see what students should already know
- a self-target setting slide for differentiation
- a presentation of members of the family
- a writing activity about family members
- a recap about age
- a vocabulary slide -differentiated-
- a grammar point about mon, ma, mes /practice
- a family tree presentation for a writing activity
- a speaking activity
- a puzzle activity
- a word search as plenary
- a detailed review of objectives.
Unit 1 BIENVENUE
Back to school? Where to start to teach French to absolute beginners? How can you make a quick start while not worrying about Unit plans? Here’s the answer!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your first weeks with French beginners. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 9 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Greetings/self-introduction
- Asking/answering personal questions
- Objects
- Colors
- Days/Months/date
- Classroom instructions
2. Grammar:
¥ indefinite and definite articles
¥ numbers 1–31
¥ il y a
¥ regular plurals
¥ imperative forms
¥ possession using de
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
A powerpoint presentation with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages. It consists of:
- a detailed introduction to the objectives and a SMART target setting slide
- a review of basic family vocabulary as starter
- an introduction to the new vocabulary
- speaking activities in pairs and teams
- writing activities
- drawing activities
- 3 short grammar points about adjectives, to be, to have
- vocabulary about personality
- games (word search, puzzle, fun speaking activities, noughts and crosses etc.)
- a review of objectives
Unit 2 A LA MAISON
Teaching about the house in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about house, furniture, house activities, time etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 7 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- where you live
- rooms in the house
- furniture
- telling the time
2. Grammar:
¥ Où? and Qui?
¥ à + town and à + hour
¥ further use of il y a
¥ regular -er verbs
¥ rules for pronunciation/spelling/dictionary work
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
Bonjour,
Here is a powerpoint with 28 slides introducing health issues for beginners. It contains
- a detailed recap/introductory slide about what students should know and will learn
- a self-target setting slide,
- a starter with a monster to draw to revise about body parts
- an introduction to different health issues
- 2 grammar points (au, à la, aux) + être/avoir.
- a matching up exercise
- mimes
- games for drilling (quiz and slap the board)
- conversations in pairs (phone call to the doctor and at the doctor's)
- a plenary with sentences to unjumble.
In order to facilitate your student progress it also contain a nice colourful booklet with 8 pages to use alongside with the powerpoint.
Enjoy! And feel free to contact me if any question.