A gapfill for the Monkey Puzzle Song by Julia Donaldson on YouTube. The missing words are available in a box with a picture prompt for differentiated support. There is also a worksheet for Makaton signs for animals from the story. This took my class a full hour. We listened to the song to enjoy it. Then we listened twice to do the gapfill. Then we read through the song lyrics in feedback to check our answers. Then we sang the song two times - trying with actions the second time! Then we discussed what Makaton was and made the signs and guessed which animals from the story they could be. Then the students drew their own pictures of the animals next to the signs.

A student sits with their back to the board. A word appears on the board behind them. The members of their team can each give a one-word clue to help the student guess the word behind them.

A simple worksheet to help Ss identify informal/formal linking words. Categorise their function and then apply to some gap-fill sentences. Ss can then use this knowledge to try to write some of their own sentences using informal linking words in open practice.

A PPT lesson guiding students through what a relative clause is, creating relative clauses, and how to use them to good effect in creative writing. This took my international students 2 x 1 hour lessons, but for native speaking students it may be a bit lesson, but could easily be two lessons with peer reviewing of creative writing and feedback etc.

Designed for international students studying Cambridge BEC/ Business English/ Business CLIL. Guides students to write a hotel review, using comparatives and superlatives. Should be roughly 6 x 1 hour lessons worth of work, but could be shortened or extended. Will need access to laptops for research - could work for an online class.

A multiple page Word Doc which guides students through understanding the difference between prediction, skimming, scanning, gist, summarising and reading for detail. It then guides students through different tasks encouraging them to use the different skills. There is an article about VAR for them to use apply all the skills to at the end. This was a full hour’s work for my class.

Learners sort words/phrases and sentence starters into different categories; Involving the Reader, Giving Your Opinion, Making the Article Interesting, Linking Words, Making Suggestions/Recommendations and Developing Your Points. Made for A2.2/B1+ PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students but could also be used for native students.

Worksheet for creating relative clauses about family members. Students match two clauses and insert a word to join them together. Created for a PET (Cambridge Preliminary) B1 class but could be used with native students, teens, adults, etc.

Includes common daily routine vocabulary, collocations, sentence building with adverbs of frequency and using past simple to describe what you did yesterday. Ideal for young learners in ESL Pre-A1.

Worksheet designed for nationality nouns and adjectives for different countries around the world. Can be used with ESL Learners A1/A2/B1.

Sports Vocabulary PPT for B1/PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students. Identifies vocaulary for different sports, sport equipment, places to do sport, as well as a collocations casino-style quiz game for do, play and go.

An engaging PowerPoint to introduce Young Learners to vocabulary for transport and describing transport. Pre-A1 level.

A PPT to encourage use of the five senses in travel writing.

A PowerPoint which guides students through understanding what a rhetorical question is and how to use them. Ideal for article writing. A2.2/B1+

A vocabulary worksheet for pre-A1 young learners. The worksheet covers rooms in the house, as well as furniture and common things found inside homes. ESL Worksheet.

A PPT which introduced vocabulary for describing different types of music, as well as introducing phrases for giving opinions and different statements to discuss.

Cut and Stick activity for identifying different spellings of vowel diphthongs sounds in phonics.

Cut out and match the jobs to their descriptions. The jobs and descriptions come ready muddled so the students can cut them out as part of the activity if you need a time-saver!

A simple worksheet for identifying whether to use ‘is’ or ‘has’ when describing people’s appearance.

A puzzle designed to help students identify the spellings of months through matching the anagrams to complete the puzzles. Designed for ESL Learners, particularly young learners - Pre-A1