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Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
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Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
The 1st round of the French Presidential elections is done. The French have voted for their 2 favorite candidates. They have 15 days to convince the French with their political visions and programmes. However, this is sometimes a little bit tricky to explain to our students who may have little knowledge about the politics or about the electoral process.
This resource will help you teach about the elections by putting the results into the French context and by explaining the birth of each political party and the programmes of these two potential presidential leaders.
This resource totally in English is aimed at intermediate-advanced level students. This resource contains a PPT with 25 slides with different activities with videos, questions and articles. It also contains a booklet with 11 pages for students so that they can keep a track of their learning.
All the activities are corrected to save you time. Here's what you will get:
1. a matching up activity with the 5 main political parties that were competing (texts with main ideas and political trends).
2. a true/false activity about the political campaign
3. an interview with Marine Le Pen followed by questions
4. Marine Le Pen’s video clip with questions to help students develop their critical thinking skills
5. A mini-biography to reorder about Marine Le Pen
6. A reading about the history of the FN and how it is presented now
7. An interview about Emmanuel Macron and his program with questions, again to let your students think about the his programme and vision
8. A brainstorming about what students may know about him
10. a mini-biography to reorder about Emmanuel Macron
11. A text giving some insight about his Party En Marche
12. The results as a conclusion
Enjoy. I am sure it will help you teach about the elections and their importance not only in France but also on the international scene.
I suggest you also use this resource that gives you a clear idea of the political system in France.
French Election System
Is there anything nicer than children and pets? Well, how about teaching them vocabulary about pets then? Here’s a freebie you’ll find useful to teach beginners in French about pets with 7 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide where students can decide what they are going to learn
- a matching up activity about colours
- a reading about pets with questions
- an unscramble the letters activity to develop reading skills
- a matching up activity
- a review of objectives
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Here's a Interactive Whiteboard lesson with 52 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages with 15 activities to teach students about Martin Luther King's life and also about leadership.
It contains :
- a self-target setting slide
- a brainstorming as a starter
- a song by Stevie Wonder with filling gaps
- words to classify
- explanation about what a leader is
- brainstorming about other leaders (Nelson Mandela, Ghandi, Dark Vador...) to give an awareness about the 6 leadership styles
- slogans to match up
- brainstorming about before MLK actions and his impact on today's society
- events in his life to put in order
- story of his life including information about Rosa Parks
- short video trailer about dreaming and change the world with inspirational quotes
- reflection time about a cause to defend
- questionnaire about becoming a leader
- 5 challenges to do (a creation of quiz, posters and video making, a rap song, a game to create and a play etc.) to celebrate MLK achievement.
- a dream activity with song
- a plenary with conclusion on the topic
- a review of objectives
All the lesson part come with direction to follow for the teacher on the note part of the powerpoint.
This lesson can be used offline without loosing the interactive. all the content is within the powerpoint no need to be online to get the content.
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Chinese New Year Celebration.
This full lesson will give you the tools to discuss with you ESL student about Chinese New year (NO Prep)
it's a presentation with 45 slides and its student activity booklet with 11 pages so that students can learn about China, the Chinese New Year, adjectives, comparatives and superlatives. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a brainstorming as a starter with a map world so that students can identify where China is
- a true/false questionnaire with answers available interactively within a click
- a video about which students take notes
- a multiple choice questionnaire about the Chinese New Year with corrections
- an introduction to Zodiac signs with their characteristics
- an activity about identifying adjectives with corrections
- a grammar point about the comparative forms
- an exercise about the comparative with correction
- a grammar point about the superlative forms
- an exercise about the superlative forms with correction
- a writing activity as a plenary
- a review of objectives
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French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain to our students how the whole political system works. You will find in this resource all the tools you need to help your students understand the role of the President. They will also learn about the voting system and the different official candidates for 2017. They will get an overview of the programs of the 5 main candidates and will get to grasps with what a political party is and the influence of the media on the political elections.
Here is what you will get in this resources:
a 20-slide PPT with:
- a brainstorming as starter
- an overview of the way the political system works with a graph with explanations about the roles of the President, Prime Minister, National Assembly, Senate etc.
- a presentation of the former Presidents with a matching up
- explanations about the advantages of becoming a president
- explanations about the main concerns for French people
- an introduction to the main candidates with a reading and matching up
- a critical explanation about how the media can shape/influence politics
- an explanation about what the Left Wing/Right Wing is
- a review of objectives in pairs
*updated 29/03/17*
Added Student Booklet
If you bought it before the update don't forget to get your booklet (it's free for you)
Have fun!
Here is a powerpoint with 6 colourful slides for an assembly or for a lesson. It contains
- introduction to the topic with a rap song about MLK and Black History month and related words
- a song "Buffalo Soldier"
- a quiz
- a true false activity
- a review of objectives
Full version with student exercise can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/black-history-month-celebration-resources-student-activities-11138470
International Women’s Day is an important celebration worldwide and it is crucial to tell our students about their achievements. For that purpose here’s a presentation with 41 slides in French. It is aimed at intermediate or advanced students and it is interactive to allow a lot of discussion and debates about women’s rights and their impact on society. It contains:
1. a brainstorming with words related to the topic
2. a video that should allow some conversations between students
3. a thinking time about important women figures
4. a matching up with inventions/women
5. a song related as a tribute to women’s achievement with quotes from the song to think about
6. a filling gap activity
7. a quiz about women’s rights
8. a short grammar activity
9. a pair/group work to think about advantages/drawbacks of being a man/woman
10. a matching up with French laws in France about women
11. a reading activity with a filling gap
12. questions related to the text
13. two adds about women leading to a creative activity in groups
14. the story about Aung San Suu Kyi
15. Guessing games
16. Maze as a plenary.
Enjoy!
Preparing to be Back to School? Unsure what to do on a first day with your new students?
You will find with this 29-slide powerpoint a nice way to break the ice with your students while telling them about the rules of your school.
This visually appealing powerpoint is really simple to use and requires NO or very little PREP. It has been designed for primary/Y7 secondary students.
It promotes a nice learning environment with the opportunity for students to speak to one another while providing some key principles about the way they should work, respect and behave to build a nice learning community
Example of activities:
- Pair speaking activities (ice breakers, reflection time)
- Reflection time about Hard-work, Respect and Pride
- Reflection about what to wear and the use of cell phones and technology
- Explanation about rules and why these rules are important to work, share and learn together
- a video to boost their self-esteem and reassure them
- a reflection time about what can be positive when coming back to school/what can be more difficult with post-it notes
- a review of the content of the presentation
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity at the bottom of each slide
If you are looking for more resources about Back to School, check these ones out:
30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
30 Icebreakers Back to school - Student booklet ready to print
Back to school Teacher Planners get organised
Back to school : Classroom display and certificate
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Tolerance and religion can be a tricky topic to teach our students but it is crucial. It is sometimes difficult for students to embrace differences and to be tolerant. We live in a world full of prejudice, intolerance and ignorance and it is our role as teachers to teach our students how to respect each other regardless of their social-economic backgrounds or religions.
I have created this resource for every teacher that may be confronted to religious misunderstanding in his/her class and also for those who simply want to underline the key principle of the 5 major religions: Respect
It could also be used in assembly to raise awareness about religions.
Here’s what you will get with this resource: a 15-page booklet for students to keep tracks of their leaning and a 33-slide PPT to create more interactivity. Each step of the lesson is explained at the bottom of the slides and activities are corrected to save you time.
1. a brainstorming in pairs with questions
2. a truth/myths activity
3. a grid to complete in pairs/groups about different religions
4. a map about religions/figures in the world
5. a matching up with symbols/religions
6. an explanation about all main 5 religions in the world
7. a quiz done in the format of blockbusters in teams
8.a reading about the House of One in Berlin
9. questions
10. a game with post-it notes
11. a debate
12. a challenge
13. a review of objectives.
Enjoy.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. How about telling our students a bit more about culture and traditions?
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year for our French students to discover a bit more about other cultures. This lesson is aimed at proficient students in French (B2-C1) or it can even be used for native speakers that want more culture about the United States. However many activities have also been designed in this resource for lower level students so that they can understand the concept of being grateful for what they have.
Every activity is corrected to save you time and you get detailled notes at the bottom of each slide of the PPT to guide your teaching! The booklet is a good way to help your students keep a record of what they have learned in class
Here's what you will get in this 36-slide PPT lesson and its 12-page booklet:
1. A starter with a brainstorming
2. A video about Thanksgiving's story
3. A true-false activity
4. A text to reorder
5. A fun mini quiz about Thansgiving in History
6. A matching up activity about Thanksgiving menu
7. An interactive menu with 5 activities to choose from (You can do them all if you want as well.)
with - a recipe
- a maze
- a wordsearch
- a poem
- Thanksgiving tree
8. A thinking time activity with slides to open up students' minds to be grateful for what they have
9. a review of objectives
Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
February being the International month for being safer online, it’s time to get them aware about the threat and the danger of being online. A lot of our students don’t really know the risks and the damages social online can get them into, we hear too many stories about suicide because of embarrassing pictures or comments posted online and we should try to educate them to get a better understanding of this amazing yet dangerous tool known as the Internet.
Here's a presentation to get your students safe online. I am sure this resource will be useful to you for the Safer Internet Day.
It contains 24 slides with
1. an introduction about the use of digital media
2. the benefits of the new technologies
3. the dangers involved in the use of technologies
4. a video about cyberbullying
5. a reflection about cyberbullying vs Freedom of Speech
6. tips to use the Internet safely
7. a mini quiz about several situations and what students would do in these situations.
8. 4 possible challenges to engage your students actively to promote a safe use if the Internet
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If you are looking for more about bullying lesson and exercice can check this resource :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/anti-bullying-assembly-stop-bullying-at-school-11122719
Easter is on its way! Can’t wait for a chocolate hunt, right?
In the meantime I suggest you this resource to develop your students’ knowledge about Easter and other celebrations in. This lesson will also give you the opportunity to practice vocabulary about Easter and grammar about the simple present tense in French
It gives an explanation as to why we celebrate Easter and other celebrations around it (Carnival, Fat Tuesday… ).
The presentation is made of 37 colourful slides and the activity booklet contains 14 pages to make your lesson more interactive and enjoyable.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about Easter
- reading activity about the different celebrations(how we celebrate them and why with some pictures to help for the understanding.)
- a True/False activity,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling
- a noughts and crosses to be played in pairs
- an introduction to the present tense (ER, IR, RE) and a practice
- a word search
- unscrambling activity
- colouring activities for the younger ones
- a pair work speaking activity with opinions
- a puzzle with letters to unscramble
It is quite flexible and will allow you to teach from pre-intermediate to intermediate levels with kids, teens or adults.
So you just need to choose what will best suit your group.
Poisson d'Avril
Here's a nice bundle that consists of a powerpoint (22 slides) and booklet (11 pages) to teach your students about April fools' day. They contain:
- a SMART setting slide
- a video
- a text to read about
- a true false activity
- a word search
- emails to read about April fools' day
- grammar point about the imperative
- a practice
- 4 fish to cut for students
- a speaking activity about opinions
- sentences to unjumble
Enjoy! Bon 1er Avril!
Teaching Black History Month? Not quite sure where to start?
Here is a powerpoint with 40 colourful slides and its booklet with 8 pages that can be used for an assembly or for a lesson to teach students creatively about Black History Month.
This lesson is full of songs, challenges and videos to bring awareness to your students about Black History Month and important figures in the Civil Right movement.
It contains:
- 1. a starter with a song "Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder and a discrimination activity
- 2. introduction to the topic with Black History month and related words
- 3. a song "Buffalo Soldier"
- 4. videos to raise awareness about Black History
- 5. a quiz
- 6. a true false activity
- 7. Reflection activity about famous Black People who have had an impact on the History
- 8. Rosa Parks' story and MLK’s story
- 9. a timeline activity with important events about History
- 10. guess games with songs by famous artists
- 11. challenges in groups (a slam song to create, posters, a big quiz involving the community, a play)
- 12. “I have a dream activity” where students reflect on their dreams and share them
- 13. Conclusion with a video and plenary to recap
Enjoy and Happy Black History Month!
Happy Saint Paddy’s
Saint Patrick’s day is always a nice celebration and a great opportunity for us as ESL teachers to teach some vocabulary and culture in a fun way. How about having interactive activities with songs, videos, speaking and reading activities in one resource? This is what you will get with this resource:
A PPT with 36 slides and an activity booklet with 13 pages full of activities and games to engage your students.
It contains:
a self-target setting slide
questions based on a video
a reading activity
a true/false activity
introduction to the vocabulary and a drilling game
a speaking activity with likes and dislikes
a maze
colouring activities
a writing activity
a group project
a Rhyming guessing game
2 songs for teenagers and/or adults
a word search
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Shopping in a market is a great topic to teach students about different topics: food items, prices, quantities, engaging in conversations are just some examples of what you will find in this resource.
Your students will love this resource full of fun games, videos and interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1 level groups (pre-intermediate) but it can be adapted to a wider audience. Note that some activities are more challenging to allow more differentiation in class. All the activities are corrected to save you time AND you get clear explanations at the bottom of each slide to guide your teaching progression!
⭐ Here’s what you’ll get in this 28-slide PPT: ⭐
A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson then…
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about summer
A video about a market in the south of France with elements to identify and questions
A matching up between pictures and words related to shopping in markets
a shopping list to complete with food items and then quantities
An activity to put food items under categories
A reading activity with a conversation at the market to re-organize
A grammar point about the imperative with exercises
A writing-speaking activity in pairs
A battleships activity in pairs
A fortune teller game as a plenary
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
Students love celebrations and it makes a nice break in our teaching. However we can celebrate and learn, can't we? This resource is aimed at teachers who want to celebrate Halloween with their students while incorporating some vocabulary, grammar and revisions. Here's what you will get:
a powerpoint with 30 colourful and scary slides about Halloween and a 12-page booklet. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games to drill the vocabulary (disappearing ones,
- colouring activities (2)
- masks to prepare for halloween (3)
- a word search
- a matching up activity about the body part
- a battleship
- a slide about opinions and reasons
a booklet with 12 pages about Halloween to use with your students. It contains:
- a word search
- colouring activities to practise colours
- a skeleton labelling activity to recap about body parts
- a review about likes/dislikes and reasons
- a battleship
- a review of objectives
I suggest you use it along with the powerpoint Spanish Halloween for more efficiency!
Bonjour,
here's a colourful and scary bundle with a booklet with 12 pages and a ppt with 48 slides to teach vocabulary about Halloween. It contains:
- a self target setting activity
- a starter with questions based on a video (I suggest you use the powerpoint to have access to the video and other activities)
- a reading activity about Halloween (origins of the celebration and La Toussaint)
- an introduction to the new vocabulary through repetition and drilling games
- a true-false activity
- a matching up
- a word search
- riddles
- a noughts and crosses
- a maths game
- a skeleton to label
- a conversation to reorder with vocabulary to look for
- how to prepare a pumpkin
- recipes for Halloween (scary eyeball truffles and chocolate mice!)
- a review about opinions
- masks to colour
- drawing activities
- an unscrambling the letters activity
- a review of objectives
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween
Ready to be back to school?
If you are still not sure where to start, here's a pack of resources that will help you get ready for the beginning of the new school year.
You will get 5 resources:
1. 30 ice breakers for the beginning and rest of the year
2. a student activity booklet to be used during the whole year
3. your teacher planner with labels for binders, notes, parents contacts and much more!
4. Assembly for day 1
5. Certificates and classroom rule displays
1. Included in this resource are 30 fun icebreakers to for the beginning of the year, but also team building activities to bring collaborative work into your class. You can use them with any topic/subject. They are also highly adaptable for all levels and age groups.
‘30 Icebreakers for Back to School’ is a booklet compiling activities to break the ice with your students when Back to School but also to use during the whole year to enhance cooperation and group work.
These 30 icebreakers are simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities for the First Week:
- 2 truths 1 lie
- Guess Who
- The chatterbox
- The wishes bottle
- The web
- The personality bingo and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity
·List of any material necessary
2. Back to school is just around the corner!
This pack of planners will let you have fun and allow you to personalize your organization for the year with a wide variety of covers for binders, personal data sheets, parents contact sheets, labels, weekly planning sheets and much more!
Get started with organization with this planner to get everything ready!
This pack of planners will keep you on top of your teaching!
In this pack you will get:
- 6 different cover options (If you want a more personalized one, just contact me with your own pictures ready!)
- 6 Personal data pages
- 6 Parents contact pages
- 6 Notes pages (to record meeting information, add reminders…)
- 6 Binder labels X 4 formats
- 6 Overview for weekly planning options
- Weekly planning pages
- 1 Grading sheet
3. This resource contains LOTS of activities to break the ice with your students. These ice breakers will let you know about their interests, their learning styles and it will also help them get around the school if the buildings are new to them! It is a good way to start to reassure your students while learning about who they are.
This 17-page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.
The activities are very simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range. You can use this booklet anytime during the year to reinforce/introduce some citizenship or life-long skills topics.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities from the booklet:
- The Facebook profile filling gap to get to know them
- The personal questionnaire to know about their family, favorite subjects, interests…
- The learning styles questionnaire so that you can quickly adapt your teaching to their needs
- The “What to do” activity
- The target setting activity to be used every semester
- The reading strategies activities…and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·all the activities you need to settle down your class for the first few weeks
·thought-provocative material to develop your students’ thinking skills and collaborative work
4. Assembly day 1
You will find with this 29-slide powerpoint a nice way to break the ice with your students while telling them about the rules of your school.
This visually appealing powerpoint is really simple to use and requires NO or very little PREP. It has been designed for primary/Y7 secondary students.
It promotes a nice learning environment with the opportunity for students to speak to one another while providing some key principles about the way they should work, respect and behave to build a nice learning community
Example of activities:
- Pair speaking activities (ice breakers, reflection time)
- Reflection time about Hard-work, Respect and Pride
- Reflection about what to wear and the use of cell phones and technology
- Explanation about rules and why these rules are important to work, share and learn together
- a video to boost their self-esteem and reassure them
- a reflection time about what can be positive when coming back to school/what can be more difficult with post-it notes
- a review of the content of the presentation
5. Certificates and classroom rules displays
This pack of resources will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1. This bundle has been designed for primary school students but it can also be used for your young secondary students.
You will find in this pack:
- 5 ready-to-print certificates to reward your students’ work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)
- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste
- 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
