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.
Students need guidance on how to write different genres. A most helpful strategy is to provide scaffolding.
In this resource teachers are helped by the provision of scaffolding for Narrative and Argumentative Writing.
How the teacher is helped is through:
Time saving as no need to design a scaffold
A supportive framework for student learning to plan an essay
A foundation for structuring an essay
Appreciation of different formats for writing different genres.
This is a bundle of 22 games designed to help the teacher explain concepts in
English in a fun way. The gains for the students are innumerable.
insights to learning more effectively
understanding grammar, vocabulary and writing in a clearer way
becoming more knowledgeable about points of English study
provide fun in learning
overcome the fear of learning about difficult aspects of the English language
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
This is a fine revision lesson for the Primary School teacher who wants to challenge students on grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
The student learns:
to improve their grammar
to punctuate better
to broaden their vocabulary range
identify figurative language devices
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
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
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
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.
This material on Business Classification is guaranteed to engage your students as they not only understand the features of various business sectors but also become aware of the relative importance of different sectors in different economies over time. A 19 slide ppt with questions and a series of multiple choice questions to entrench concepts are provided.
At the completion of this lesson, all students should be able to:
• Classify businesses into relevant business sectors
• Understand the different methods of classifying businesses
• Understand the difference between a developing economy and a developed economy.
• Understand the relative importance of business sectors in different economies
• Identify the changes in economic structure of different economies
• Understand the changes in different economies
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 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.
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 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.
This lesson combines the techniques of technology in production and analysis of production methods to improve productivity. The student is challenged by exam style questions. Students learn:
how to answer exam style questions about production.
the various technology techniques to improve productivty in production.
the ways to produce efficiently by reducing wastage to induce productivity.
to analyse the best production types to utilise in different scenarios.
The outcome for students from this lesson is to understand best production practice and how to always strive for productivity improvement.
As you know understanding concepts plays an integral part in completing a Business Studies Course.
This is an introductory Business Studies course so the number of concepts is not exhaustive.
Consequently, this cheatsheet offers:
A number of terms and definitions to build a foundation in Business Studies.
A matching of terms and definitions for better understanding
A ready reference for students to help with their collection of concepts
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.
Students’ success in Business Studies depends mainly on their understanding of concepts. To even answer a question that could be worth 6 marks on Paper 1 may need the student to understand a definition of a term in the question. So, what is on offer here is a challenge for the students to learn about concepts through a series of multiple choice questions. 5 Multiple Choice Tests which cover the first section of the IGCSE Business Studies Course are provided for students’ learning. The student learns:
the definitions of terms
application of concepts
analysis of different 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
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.
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.