A short, fun RC about an adult's awful day. The focus is the past simple tense.

This is a heart warming, short ghost story with exercises: a true/false, match-up activity and comprehension questions.

A short story on a ppt, (32 slides) with some images and activities. This ppt accompanies my short story of the same title. The wise witch has cast a spell on King Salvo, but ultimately, will it help him to become a better king? A Midas-esque story!

Activities around bullying, including a warmer, 'scenario' cards for students to comment on or act out; comment cards for pair work and role play, with pyramid of importance activity; match-up activity on types of bullying and on what makes a bully; suggestions for dealing with bullying tick lists and a case history with activities. The activities are suitable for pair and group work. Before approaching each of these activities, you can ask students to come up with their own ideas. I did this with year 7, on a 'conflict resolution' day.

Take a basic plot and build it up into an outstanding lesson, with your students producing a piece of writing at the end. No resources are needed. Of course, you can produce resources to complement the lessons if you want. I have provided one differentiated question sheet which would be useful for EAL students. This is based on an idea by 'Lauriane'. I would love to meet her.

Bernard is great for fun - a sort of animal Mr Bean. Activities based on the youtube clip.

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

This is a worksheet on everyday terms which can be used in probability. I prepared this when one of my students said he didn't know what 'certain' meant. I have also uploaded a ppt with the same language which can be presented as a game of Splat! or a card sort activity.

This is a mini-biography of Cat Stevens, with a true or false activity, comprehension questions and a language exercise. I did this with a year 9 RE group. They carried out a mini research project and then we compared the music of this artist at different stages of his life.

Ready to go Numeracy activities which make great starters in any subject area.

Two sheets of practice with the 'wh&' words and that honorary wh word - how. Nice pictures on the template.

Using visuals is a good thing! Here is an infographic on how to support EAL students within the mainstream classroom. Fully editable.

A play based on Aesop's fable. There are six narrators, besides the main parts, which can easily be adapted to fewer or more. I&'ve tried to make it fun and upbeat. This version is based on a Youtube clip and I&';ve included the link. There is no talking in the video, so it's great for teaching EAL kids.

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

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

Two short anecdotes with language activities: 1) Socrates and the triple filter test. 2) The rest of your life. These could be used in PHSCE or English.

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

This is a worksheet to test/teach maths terms.

A nice picture with some exercises.

A nice snow scene to colour in and some exercises. Might come in handy if we get some snow!