A nice picture, with activities. Will suit beginners and early intermediates.

A gap fill exercise to practise the question words and a short reading passage with comprehension questions.

There are 25 statements, some true, some false. The students have to correct the false statements. Ask them to shade the true statements and there is a hidden letter N, so you can check if they got it right. Then, ask them to read out or discuss their corrections in pairs and this leads to whole class discussion.

Some facts are presented to promote discussion about McDonald's. Good for EAL students in Business Studies.

A great picture, with activities to practise the present continuous tense.

This is a short passage in the past simple about a nervous teacher's first lesson. Cloze and match up exercises provided.

A play with 14 parts (easily adapted). I wrote this for a year 9 class with a high proportion of EAL students. They really enjoyed it.

The first sheet is to practise past simple and to explain 'embarrassment&'. The second one is a follow up story, past simple or past continuous? After the exercise, you can cut the pictures out for sequencing. Ask the students to put the story together using time connectives, &';First, then, after that' etc.. You could practise making questions by having the students prepare qs for Jake, using the &'wh&'; words and build this into a hotseat activity.

I've re-jigged my writing mat for pupils. It&'s a step by step guide to help them check stories or recounts in the past tense. It helps student to be more independent - I ask them to go through it before I mark their work. Also, it looks beautiful! :)

A variety of worksheets with the main language focus being the past simple tense. There are suggested activities on each sheet. 'Holiday did you&' is a list of questions for pair work coming back from the summer holiday. &';Crystal is not a bully' and &'Things you should do before you die&'; might be of use in PHSCE.

Short story based on five images with a twist in the tale. A good model for third person narrative controlled assessment practice, (audience young readers). I get my students to mind map the images first. Some exercises provided.

This is a guide on how to describe a picture. It's useful for mainstream teachers to use as an exercise or wall chart and also as a hand out to students. I love the picture! Who are they? What were they doing?

A great picture, with activities to practise the present continuous tense.

To go with the youtube clip. Pictures and words for Splat! Gap fill, with past simple focus.

Useful in Business Studies - language activities to support EAL students around the process.

Some ideas on how to exploit pictures for teaching EAL. I also include a writing exercise to practise the past simple tense.

A reading passage with exercises.The language focus is the past simple tense. I got the template from Baiba, a member of the greatest EAL site in the world: (erm, after this one, of course!) eslprintables

A fun sheet to colour, with some activities including scrambled words, true or false and past tense exercises.

A reading passage with language activities, about the wonderfully heart-warming rescue by the Yorkshire Wildlife Safari Park of 13 lions who had been living in cramped cages in Romania. I did this as part of a project on lions and am still trying to arrange to take my students to the safari park. One day! There are plenty of youtube clips about this.

Excellent diagram of a house! A match up exercise - match the names of the rooms to the pictures and a true and false activity. The house template is from eslprintables.