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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.
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
Unit 6 ON S’AMUSE
Teaching about sports, hobbies, music and interests in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about sport, hobbies, opinions, music etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Hobbies
- Sports
- Music
- Likes and dislikes
2. Grammar:
¥ jouer à, faire du
¥ aller + infinitive
¥ adverbs od frequency and time
¥ use of conjunctions
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Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides and its activity booklet with 8 pages to teach about Thanksgiving.
It can be used either at the beginning of the month to allow students to prepare Thanksgiving activities or right before the 4th Thursday of the month.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video explaining the Pilgrims' story
- a recap to make sure students have understood the video.
- a multiple choice quiz
- a true-false exercise
- a word search
- a maze
- a filling gap exercise
- a recipe
- a thinking time activity to make students aware that we need to be grateful for what we have
- slides inviting students to reflect on themselves
- a plenary that invites them to prepare activities around Thanksgiving.
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
Here is a powerpoint with 34 colourful slides and its activity booklet with 6 pages about describing the house for beginners. It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a short video to get your students started
- a wordsearch as a second starter which I also use as a dictionary contest
- an introduction to new vocabulary
- a quiz
- a where is waldo game
- a grammar point about the feminine and masculine words
- a reading activity
- a matching up activity with feminine masculine words
- a writing activity
- a plenary
- a review of objectives.
Here is a very colorful powerpoint with 27 slides and its booklet with 8 pages about Christmas for ESL beginners.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- 1 video -as a starter to introduce some vocabulary
- information about Christmas
- a True-False activity
- an introduction to the vocabulary through drilling and a missing picture game.
- a word search
- a maze -to free Santa Claus-
- 2 colouring pictures
- a postcard to write for their parents
- a dialogue with Santa Claus to fill in with present wishes
- a song with a filling gap activity and a puzzle as plenary.
I wish you all a very nice Christmas!
Here’s a nice presentation with 39 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English for the first time. (Unit1/Lesson1)
The lesson is aimed at teenagers, young adults or adults with little or no English at all. It is all about giving them confidence in learning this new language. So whatever their mothertongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about why it is important to learn English with a fun short video
2. A Truth/Myth activity about learning English
3. A writestorming about countries
4. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
5. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
6. Further practice with countries in Europe (aimed at more proficient students)
7. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
8. A matching up activity between European countries and flags to go further
9. A wordsearch
10. An interactive map with 8 students telling where they come from, which nationality they are, what they study or what they like
11. A comprehension grid to fill in with the texts about the students
12. A country/nationality matching up with a short grammar point about Capital letters and nationalities endings
13. Language work about formal and informal greetings
14. Complete the grid activity with greetings according to the time of the day
15. Introduction to the alphabet with the sign language and 2 audio recorded.
16. Filling the grid activity with words students already know
17. Reordering the conversation activity between two students
18. Filling the gaps with the missing words
19. Practising the conversation in pairs
20. Review of objectives
The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
All the lesson can be used at his full potential offline just download and copy the lesson on your USB key and you can use it in any computer with Powerpoint.
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Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
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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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
Here’s a freebie about why learning a foreign language with 6 slides. It contains:
- an objective slide
- a matching up activity
- a true/myth activity with answers
- a celebrity slide with celebrities speaking many languages
- reasons why learning an MFL is important
The full version can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/why-learn-foreign-language-assembly-11113847
Black History Month/Martin Luther Jr. Day is a wide topic. So much to say. Little time to say it all. Black History deserves more than just one day or month. However if you are short on time and want to make the most of it with your students, this resource made of a PPT and booklet in French will help you. It consists of a PPT with interactive activities, songs and videos about Black History Month, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. The activity booklet is here to help your students keep track of their learning.
This full lesson consists of a powerpoint and booklet about Black History Month, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King in French. The powerpoint consists of 26 colourful slides with
- a quiz
- a true-false activity
- a song with its translation in French
- videos
- a puzzle
- guessing games
- reflection slides
- the story of Rosa Parks
And the booklet consists of 12 very colourful pages related to the powerpoint.
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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!
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.
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Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 38 slides and its activity booklet with 9 pages designed for beginners about food items and meals. It contains
- a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with a dictionary contest
- introduction of items for breakfast, lunch, breaktime and diner.
- guessing games
- a grammar point about partitives (du, de la, de l’)
- reading activities with filling gaps and comprehension grids
- writing activities
- speaking pair works about opinions and justifications
- matching up activities etc.
Enjoy!!!
A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 36 slides about clothes items in French for beginners and its booklet. By the end of the lesson students should be able to say what they wear at school and at home. It contains
- a set yourself a smart target slide to encourage student to own their learning
- a detailed slide about objectives and a recap of what students should know
- a word search activity with a dictionary challenge
- an introduction to the different clothes items through a matching up
- a missing game activity
- the odd-one-out
- a reading activity with questions leading to
- the grammar point about feminine and masculine nouns + the word order with adjectives of colour.
- a grammar point about feminine and masculine adjectives
- some pair works to develop their speaking skills and a fashion show description.
Enjoy !!!
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A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides + its activity booklet of 7 pages about colours and the rules for the feminine adjectives for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slides
- an introduction to the vocabulary though pictures about common objects and pets, opinions about colours
- drilling activities through games (quiz)
- a grammar point about wod ode with ajectives and focus on adjective agreement
- writing and reading activities in the booklet
- speaking activities
- a review of objectives
Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 29 slides and its activity booklet designed for beginners about school objects. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with pictures to label
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling (disappearing game, slapping the board, hidden item etc.)
- 2 grammar points (fem, masc, plural forms- J'ai, je n'ai pas + practice)
- a noughts and crosses
- a word search
- a review of objectives
BUNDLE DESCRIPTION
Back to school? Not sure where to start? Not ready with your Unit plans/Schemes of work?
This resource of about 65 pages will help you plan your whole year with French beginners.
It contains 6 unit plans with that you can use to teach for 6-7 weeks each. They follow a logical teaching order and they are aimed at absolute beginners.
You will be able to teach your students from the alphabet, to pets, colors, family, hobbies, sports, opinions, music, food etc. Not to mention the grammar that is embedded in each of them.
Each Unit plan contains teaching objectives, suggested activities, homework and differentiation. They are also flexible to suit all your learners’ abilities and learning styles.
More details about each Unit :
Unit 1 description BIENVENUE
Back to school? Where to start to teach French to absolute beginners? How can you make a quick start while not worrying about Unit plans? Here’s the answer!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your first weeks with French beginners. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 9 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Greetings/self-introduction
- Asking/answering personal questions
- Objects
- Colors
- Days/Months/date
- Classroom instructions
2. Grammar:
¥ indefinite and definite articles
¥ numbers 1–31
¥ il y a
¥ regular plurals
¥ imperative forms
¥ possession using de
Unit 2 description A LA MAISON
Teaching about the house in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about house, furniture, house activities, time etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 7 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- where you live
- rooms in the house
- furniture
- telling the time
2. Grammar:
¥ Où? and Qui?
¥ à + town and à + hour
¥ further use of il y a
¥ regular -er verbs
¥ rules for pronunciation/spelling/dictionary work
Unit 3 description MA FAMILLE
Teaching about the family, pets, descriptions in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about family, pets, physical and personality description, opinions, reasons, numbers up to 69 etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- family
- pets
- descriptions
- personality and physical appearance
- opinions and reasons
- numbers
2. Grammar:
¥ negatives
¥ subject pronouns
¥ present tense of avoir and être
¥ review about possessive adjectives (first, second and third persons)
¥ prepositions
¥ agreement of adjectives
¥ numbers 32–69
Unit 4 description Qu’est-ce qu’on fait?
Teaching about activities, hobbies, chores, likes and dislikes in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 10 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about places in town, activities, hobbies, chores, opinions and reasons etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Places in town/home
- Hobbies
- Chores
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
¥ aller
¥ à + definite article
¥ irregular verbs
¥ questions with Est-ce que ...? and Qu’est-ce que ...?
¥ simple opinions
¥ imperative forms
¥ using a dictionary effectively
Unit 5 description UNE JOURNEE
Teaching about school, teachers, subjects, timetable and hobbies in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 11 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about school and hobbies. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- School (subjects, teachers, timetable)
- Hobbies
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
- negatives (ne ... pas)
- asking for and giving simple opinions and reasons
- quantifiers (très, assez, trop, un peu)
- numbers up to 100
- reflexive verbs
- near future tense for most able
Unit 6 description ON S’AMUSE
Teaching about sports, hobbies, music and interests in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about sport, hobbies, opinions, music etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Hobbies
- Sports
- Music
- Likes and dislikes
2. Grammar:
¥ jouer à, faire du
¥ aller + infinitive
¥ adverbs od frequency and time
¥ use of conjunctions
All the resource can be used individually but I will advice you to follow the unit.
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Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Here is a colorful booklet about Spring (animals, plants and flowers, fruit and vegetables, singular and plural forms). It contains 12 pages full of activities:
* a recap activity about what students should know and an overview of what they will learn
* matching up activities with pictures about animals, plants and flowers, fruit and vegetables
* a wordsearch
* a drawing activity
* a writing activity about plural forms
* a speaking activity about opinions
* a reading activity with a letter and words about flowers, vegetables etc to find out
* a reading activity with a true/false
* a writing activity
* sentences to unscramble as a plenary
* a detailed review of objectives
Lots of fun! Enjoy!
Jobs description
Here is a very colourful powerpoint presentation with 33 slides and its activity booklet with 7 pages to introduce jobs along with feminine and masculine forms in French. It is aimed at beginners-pre/intermediate. It contains:
- a detailed slide with what students know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video as a starter to engage students with some questions
- a matching up activity as a starter with pictures about jobs
- an introduction to the jobs items with repetition
- drilling with games (hiding pictures, missing one, slap the board game)
- a reading activity as guess games in pairs
- a true/false activity
- a grammar point about feminine, masculine words
- a team game with pictures to practice grammar point
- a reading with True/False
- a word search
- a detailed review of objectives
Enjoy!
Here is a colourful Powerpoint with 26 slides and its activity booklet with 5 pages to introduce instructions in the classroom and other useful language in French for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a matching up as a starter
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- drilling games for the practice (mini quiz, hiding pictures, Simon Says, slap the board).
- a grammar point about the imperative
- a matching up
- a matching up activity
- a noughts and crosses activity as plenary
- a review of objectives
