Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
This resource is a story with a vocabulary check after the story. An ideal lesson for ESL teaching in Asia, it can also be used for other curriculums to teach students about figurative language, focusing on similes, metaphors and idioms. The majority of language is idiomatic. The expressions are underlined for students to identify the different forms of figurative language and complete the vocabulary check after the end of the story. Another great benefit is that teachers can use it as a comprehension passage for students to complete relevant questions.
Therefore, what this resource offers:
An insight to the use of figurative language in a text.
Clarify the meaning of numerous idioms which Asian students often find confusing
An affirmation of learning by completing a vocabulary exercise at the end of the document.
A comprehensive passage
An interesting Asian backdrop to a humorous story.
In this lesson students will understand the difference between cash flow and profits which are two concepts that are easily confused.
By the end of this lesson which consists of 18 PPT slides and a revision worksheet to affirm understanding students will achieve the following
understand the importance of cash
Understand what cashflow is.
Identify the difference between cash inflows and cash outflows.
Affirm the difference through an exercise
Understand the cash flow cycle
Understand the uses of cash flow forecasts
Understand that cash flow is not PROFIT via an activity
Understand a cashflow forecast by examining a case study
The resources are 18 slides of as PPT and 10 questions on a worksheet involving understanding of key concepts and interpretation of cashflow forecast tables.
This is the ultimate package for teaching students in Business Studies about entrepreneurship and the business plan. The material covers three or more lessons. In this package your teaching will be supported by :
comprehensive PPT slides that cover the topic of business entrepreneurs and the business plan with emphasis on modern entrepreneurs.
an entrepreneur’s profile for students to compile through research
an entrepreneur skills assessment
a business plan to be completed by students.
Your students learn how :
to entrench concepts about entrepreneurship
use research skills to create a profile on an entrepreneur
to affirm concepts relating to business plans
This is the ideal package for the busy teacher that wants access to relevant material on the topic and covers the topic superbly.
This is the ultimate package for teaching students in Business Studies about the Economic Issues. The material covers three lessons. In this package your teaching will be supported by:
41 PPT easy to read Slides that cover the topic comprehensively.
A number of examples in the slides to simplify concepts.
2 Activities on worksheets that entrench understandingf of the topic.
By the end of these lessons your students will have a firm grasp of government economic policy methods and their application to business operations.
A PPT that covers two lessons and has a major case study as an activity for your students to complete. What is on offer?
A valuable resource that will guide your students to understand concepts and use these concepts in activities.
By the end of the lessons your students will have learnt :
how business activity can impact on the environment like global warming.
the concepts of externalities and sustainability and their application to business operations. Students complete a case study to affirm understanding.
how and why businesses react to environmental pressures and opportunities- examining the influence of the community and pressure groups on business decision making
the role of legal controls over business activity affecting the environment like pollution controls
ethical issues a business might face like conflicts between making profits and ethical business practice and reactions and responses to child labour.
This is a time saving resource for the busy teacher.It covers two lessons and supports a conducive learning platform for students. Your students will learn:
to understand the concept of the business cycle.
to understand the key economic objectives of governments.
what the are the key economic indicators of the health of an economy.
to understand government economic policy instruments like fiscal, monetary and supply side policies.
how governments address issues of high unemployment and inflation, declining economic growth and balance of payments deficits.
to analyse the impact of government economic policy on businesses.
To analyse the impact of government economic policy on consumers.
The resources to guide your teaching include:
A 41 slide PPT
A 17 questions worksheet focused on concepts relating to economic issues.
An absolute time saver for the busy teacher. This bundle of worksheets helps to explain different concepts associated with costs of production. The student entrenches costs concepts and applies them. The worksheets focus on :
a quiz addressing the concepts of fixed, variable costs, average and total costs and economies of scale and diseconomies of scale
an application of the cost concepts and their calculation through case studies
an application of economies of scale through case studies
At the end of completion students are cognizant of concepts and can apply them in a number of business scenarios.
Exam mania is set in for the end of year exams. What better way to ease students minds to prepare for exams than a guide. What does this guide offer the student:
takes out the guesswork in answering questions properly.
reduces time spent on directionless answering of questions
gives them a roadmap to answering questions
emphasises what is important in answering questions
shows how to score higher marks for each type of question.
gives them time allocations for answering questions
gives them an insight to how to answer the justify style of question in Paper 2
makes them more confident to complete Papers 1 and 2 proficiently
This is the ideal package for the time spent teacher who wants to reduce his workload but at the same time provide an interesting and valuable lesson for the students on the topic of cash flow. What you will receive is:
A 19 slide PPT that captures all the concepts of cash flow and demonstrates the various components of a cash flow forecasting Statement and thorough explanation .
A worksheet with a series of questions that entrench understanding of the components of this topic.
Reordering sentences is a complex task for many students. In this challenge students learn how to:
understand the meaning of sentences
understand the use of cohesive ties in sentences and between sentences
understand the need to sequence sentences properly for effect.
understand how to write a cohesive piece of writing that flows.
This bundle package on Income Statements is guaranteed to engage your students as they not only understand the features of an income statement but become proficient in analysing an income statement. The series of questions and case studies entrench learning. A quiz at the end reinforces the understanding of concepts.
Lesson Objectives;
At the completion of this lesson, all students, should be able to:
• Determine the difference between profit and cash flow.
• Understand how a profit is made and the different types of profit.
• Understand the importance of profit to private sector businesses, e.g. reward for risk taking/enterprise, source of finance.
• Understand the importance of profit to governments
• Understand the main features of an income statement, e.g. revenue, cost of sales, gross profit, net profit, net profit after tax and retained profit.
• Interpret simple income statements for decision making purposes.
• Compile their own income statements based on data.
Resources available are a series of PPT slides and to affirm learning supplementary worksheets and a quiz.
This is the ideal lesson for understanding cost of production and the value of breakeven analysis. As a valuable teaching tool for the teacher, it is also saves time in resource preparation. For the student it is a valuable learning aid.
How it helps the student is as follows:
entrenches the concepts of fixed, variable, total and average costs and breakeven analysis.
provides opportunities through 3 case studies to calculate these costs.
creates analysis of these costs for application to real world scenarios.
demonstrates the value of breakeven analysis for businesses.
Writing narratives is difficult for many students. A hurdle for students is how to identify the essential elements of any story and how to structure it. The next part in narrative writing is how to use language effectively. This PPT covers the structure and language components in narrative writing that should be completed as a series of lessons. The following elements are covered:
Understanding of the three essential elements of a narratrive: Conflict, Change or resolution and Descriptive Writing.
How to break down the components of a story through the plot mountain organiser graph
Become familiar with the concepts of horizontal and vertical time to make their descriptive writing more effective.
How to complete effective story starts by examining a multitude of story starts.
Use show not tell style to improve your writing
The use of sensory language to upgrade your standard
This test on Income Statements is guaranteed to engage your students as they not only understand the features of an income statement but become proficient in analysing an income statement. The series of questions from a narrative entrench learning. Answers to questions are provided.
Lesson Objectives;
At the completion of this lesson, all students, should be able to:
• Determine the difference between gross profit and net profit
• Understand how gross and net profit margins are determined.
• Determine the changes in profit levels between financial years.
• Understand the importance of differing profits between financial years.
• Understand the concepts of cost of sales and added value.
• Understand how to increase revenue from analysing a narrative.
This is the ideal worksheet to cover components of the course from Classification of businesses to Marketing, competition and the customer.
15 questions broadly cover this part of the curriculum. The content includes :
understanding of tertiary sectors
difference between private and public sector
business types
business objectives
employee motivation
recruitment stages
fulltime vs part ime employees
redundancy
organisation and management - leadership style
customer loyalty
marketing concepts
As you know most students struggle with persuasive writing, the argumentative essay being one of the hardest for them to complete successfully.
This insight to argumentative writing is so helpful for students.
An 18 slide PPT and a supplementary guide help the student in the following ways:
Outlines the structure of any style of argumentative essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
Demonstrates ways to introduce the topic with opening sentence, thesis and preview of arguments
Shows how the body paragraphs are structured, each starting with a topic sentence, development of points and clinching statement.
Demonstrates ways to conclude an essay with the emphasis on not including extra arguments. Simply, summing up with a restatement of arguments and outcomes which may have a call to action.
A precis of the two different types of argumentative writing-one sided and two sided.
Type of language used to connect ideas.
A model of a one sided argument done in a counterpoint way.
A bonanza sale of four(4) topics in one bundle to quench your thirst for content about the Marketing Mix (4Ps) component of the IGCSE Business Studies course. The 4Ps is Product, Price, Place and Promotion. This package not only saves time for your lesson planning but you receive quality activities to support the learning curve for students.
This bundle of information offers:
4 PPTS (71 slides in total)
One (1) Product worksheet
Two (2) Price worksheets
One(1) Place worksheet
Two (2) Promotion worksheets
This is the ultimate vocabulary activity for the high calibre student who wants to improve his/ her vocabulary. What a student receives is::
a number of rich words that need to be matched with their meaning.
two activities that involve matching
flexible learning where the student can convert these new words into sentences
compendium of vocabulary words
This is a challenging vocabulary activity for senior students.
Students are introduced to high calibre words that would not be commonly used in writing pieces.
This activity helps the student:
In identifying new words to provide sophistication to their writing
Broadens their vocabulary immensely
A three in one bundle of three activities on vocabulary.This is a challenging vocabulary activity for senior students.
Students are introduced to high calibre words that would not be commonly used in writing pieces.
This activity helps the student:
In identifying new words to provide sophistication to their writing
Broadens their vocabulary immensely