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
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
Here's a colourful 31 slide powerpoint about days, months and seasons in French for beginners. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary -for each topic -days/months/seaons
- games to practise the language (guessing games, matching up activities, noughts and crosses, slap the board game, a word search, a puzzle with letters to unscramble, a battleship)
- pair work activities with likes/dislikes and opinions.
- a group work with a survey
- a review of objectives
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
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.
When we teach beginners in English one of the first lessons is about family and description with the use of the verb BE. How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about family, age, personality description and grammar points about the verb BE and adjectives. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 28 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 11 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about self-introduction with questions to answer and to be created
- Matching up (about family members, age, personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Family trees
- Classification activities for adjectives
- Reading activity
- Guessing game about family members
- 2 grammar points followed by exercises and correction (BE and adjectives)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 5
to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Need more ESL lesson Check Unit 1 :
Unit1 Lesson1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit1 lesson2 Number and basic question
Unit1 Lesson3 Food, like and opinions
Unit1 Lesson4 Hobbies and adverbs of frequency
Any questions : carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Let's Celebrate Earth day in French
Here's a powerpoint with 20 slides and a student booklet with 8 pages to teach about the environment and its protection. It was made for Earth Day but it can be used anytime. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide with detailed objectives
- videos about Earth day as a starter
- an introduction to vocabulary through a matching up
- texts about the environment, pollution and solutions
- debating activities with arguments to sort out
- vocabulary for debates (opinions and disagreement)
- videos about solutions to protect the environment with a conversation to reorder and a sketch to do
- a word search as plenary
- a detailed review of objectives.
Enjoy!
Teaching about days, months and seasons is one of the first lessons we teach with beginners. Now how can we make sure that they are engaged, challenged and motivated? Which activities best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the vocabulary needs of your beginners while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about days, seasons and months they like and give some reasons.
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 27 slides designed for beginners, about days, months and seasons and also an activity booklet with 9 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The lesson contains:
- a detailed objectives slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a matching up activity between seasons and pictures
- games for practice (word search, puzzle with letters to unscramble, guessing games, slapping the board game, noughts and crosses etc.)
- pair works to talk about likes/dislikes and opinions
- group work with surveys
- review of objectives
Have fun when teaching Spanish!
When we engage in a conversation with people for the first time one of the first questions are: What do you do? Where do you work? So teaching about jobs and workplaces has to come early in our teaching. How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about workplaces and the use of nouns (singular/plural) with articles –the emphasis being on the structure: She/He is A…., She/He works IN…
It also contains a recap about jobs and the daily routine. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 29 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 11 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about jobs and daily routine with a reading with definitions, a writing activity and a song.
- matching up (about jobs and workplaces)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Another song to develop students’ listening skills about jobs and the present tense
- A grammar point followed by exercises and correction (singular/plural nouns, a/an, irregular plural forms)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 3 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Back to school is just around the corner!
Have you noticed that teacher planners are all the same?
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
Choose the options that suit you best and start planning!
For more Back to school resources, follow the links:
30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
30 Icebreakers Back to school - Student booklet ready to print
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Beginners in English are always eager to communicate about their job, daily routine and personality. How about having an interactive lesson in context with the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about jobs and the daily routine. It also contains a recap about adjectives of personality and the simple present. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 31 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 13 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about personality adjectives with letters to reorder and a matching up
- Videos with questions (to introduce the jobs and the verbs of the daily routine)
- Matching up (between jobs and personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs (ranking activity, survey, interview)
- Reading activity based on a forum and ads
- 1 grammar points followed by an exercise about jobs
- Writing activities
- Games (noughts and crosses and Bingo)
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 physical description and verb to have
Teaching grammar and vocabulary to beginners in ESL is not always easy. By the time we complete a Unit, many students will have forgotten important vocabulary and grammar points! So consolidation of the knowledge is absolutely vital!
How about having all the grammar and vocabulary in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply clicking on the buttons in the content page!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- family
- personality
- physical description
- jobs
- workplaces
- daily routine
Grammar:
- Nouns (a, an and plural)
- Possessive’s
- To HAVE/to BE
- Adjectives
Each slide of the 34-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, matching-up, choosing the right option, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Check others lesson of this Unit :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Unit 2 Lesson 4 Job and workplace
Fall is a great season and a nice opportunity to teach our students more vocabulary.
We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach Fall vocabulary in French I clearly recommend a fun yet efficient approach that will hook them… Playing cards combines all these features.
The other good thing about this resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Learning-reinforcing vocabulary about Fall
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards differentiated in levels (green for easy, orange for medium and red for more challenging)
7 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
The content page so that you can quickly choose which words you want to use with your class.
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Don’t forget my other card games!
Ready to have fun for spooky Halloween?
We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach Halloween in French I clearly recommend a fun yet efficient approach that will hook them… Playing cards combines all these features.
The other good thing about this resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Learning-reinforcing vocabulary about Halloween
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards differentiated in levels (green for easy, orange for medium and red for more challenging)
7 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
The content page so that you can quickly choose which words you want to use with your class.
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Don’t forget my other card games!
Ready to be Back to School? How about having fun with your students while learning about them?
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 ready-to-print 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
This resource combines nicely with 30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
So let's start work and have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
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!
Hi everyone!
Here is a colourful presentation about Saint Patrick's day in French. I made it quite flexible to allow you to work with children, teens or even adults! You just need to choose which activities are best suited for your audience! You have 16 activities in total! It contains the powerpoint with 38 slides and the activity booklet with 11 pages for students.
For an easier use you have notes at the bottom of each slide of the powerpoint to guide you in your teaching.
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide
- a video about St Patrick in French followed by questions questions
- a reading activity about St Patrick
- a True/False activity
- an introduction to new vocabulary through drilling
- a disappearing game to practise vocabulary
- a slap the board game activity
- a pair work- speaking activity
- a maze
- a writing activity
- a group work with creation of booklet/powerpoint with another video
- a story about the Leprechauns- listening/writing skills
- a drawing contest
- a word search as plenary
Student usually love it, especially the group work as they are free to use their imagination and research skills.
Lots of fun!
Hi everyone!
Here is a colourful presentation about Saint Patrick's day in Spanish. I made it quite flexible to allow you to work with children, teens or even adults! You just need to choose which activities are best suited for your audience! You have 12 activities in total! For an easier use you have notes at the bottom of each slide to guide you in your teaching.
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide
- a video about St Patrick in Spanish followed by questions
- a reading activity about St Patrick
- a True/False activity
- an introduction to new vocabulary through drilling
- a disappearing game to practise vocabulary
- a slap the board game activity
- a pair work- speaking activity
- a maze
- a group work with creation of booklet/powerpoint with another video
- a story about the Leprechauns- listening/drawing
- a drawing contest
- a word search as plenary
Student usually love it, especially the group work as they are free to use their imagination and research skills.
Lots of fun!
They are so cute! Which kid wouldn’t want to cuddle a lovely pet? How about teaching children about pets then?
This colorful resource with a 32-slide PowerPoint and its activity booklet with 11 pages is aimed at beginners in French.
It will help you to teach about pets, colors and opinions in just on resource. The 4 skills are embedded and kids will love the games that will make your lesson an interactive one!
It is aimed at children or teens but feel free to adapt it for adults.
It contains:
1. a self-target setting slide so that students are responsible for their own learning
2. a matching up activity about colors as a starter
3. a small text about pets with questions
4. an introduction about pets
5. games to practice the language (Hidden game, slapping the board game, unscrambling words)
6. a grammar point about feminine and masculine words
7. adjectives about pets (matching up, definition about pets/animals)
8. speaking activities (survey, pair work)
9. a reading task
10. a writing task
Enjoy !!!
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.
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
Here's a powerpoint with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages to teach items of food for breakfast. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video with breakfasts around the world
- a reading activity
- a dictionary contest
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- drilling games (hidden picture)
- a grammar point (du,de la, des) and a practice
- a grammar point about prendre/boire and a practice
- revisions about opinions
- reading activities
- a writing activity
- a word search as plenary
- a review of objectives