<p>Use this specially created text to model the style and vocabulary required for selling a tourist destination in a holiday brochure. It is deliberately (a little!) OTT in order for the students to have fun and to inspire them to be bold with their own descriptions - to experiment and have fun. You could have a competition - who can sell their holiday destination by being the MOST persuasive?</p> <p>Lots of vocabulary exercises to demonstrate COLLOCATIONs and ADJECTIVES.</p> <p>I would get them to write their first drafts on paper and then when checked to type them up and add pictures to their ‘brochures’ . Then give out the texts and get them to peer assess each others writing using the table.</p>

<p>A wonderful cheat sheet for extending students vocabulary when giving spoken and then written descriptions.<br /> Giving GOOD descriptions in another language sounds easy but it is not because it is very vocabulary intense AND the vocabulary needs to be presented in the correct order and in the correct tense.<br /> This resource is an easy to follow guide for students to get it right and is one which I have used in my classes many times. It is a great scaffold to be given to lower level pupils - and a useful resource and reminder for higher level pupils who often do not extend their vocabulary enough in descriptions.<br /> It is recommended that you tear out pictures from magazines (or get your class to do this/bring them in. Let them practise describing the pictures orally first in pairs. Then number the pictures and redistribute them. Get them to write a description. Pin the pictures around the room. Redistribute the written descriptions and ask the students to walk around, find the matching picture and write down its number. Regroup and check the answers.</p>

<p>Designed for To Kill a Mockingbird but adaptable for other texts. Used as a guide for a summative task in Grade 10 (US curriculum) but obviously adaptable to other contexts!</p>

<ol> <li>Label the pictures with the landscape they show</li> <li>Listen to the songs and number the pictures in the order that you hear them</li> <li>Write the song title under the picture</li> <li>In groups, find another song for each of these types of landscape</li> <li>Using the lyrics, design a worksheet for the rest of the class to complete</li> </ol>

<p>This is a scaffold designed for EAL pupils - but in fact useful for any pupils who need practise in any subjects in the language and correct sentence structure required to make comparative sentences. It is broken down into ways to discuss and write about similarities and differences. Also includes sentences for discussing problems and solutions.</p> <p>Use it for group or pairwork speaking practise first of all and then for follow up writing. Can be given to groups as a scaffold to be used by those who need it or can be given to individual pupils. Across the curriculum, students need to be intentionally taught to notice this language.</p>

<p>Designed as a scaffold for EAL pupils but useful for ALL students who are preparing a TED talk on any topic. Students can be given this as an aid - those who need it can use it - those who don’t can go their own way! Even if it helps just one pupil it will have been worth providing this scaffold : )</p>

<p>This is intended as an exercise to prepare pupils for the summary writing component of IGCSE English as a Second Language Paper but it will be useful as a scaffold for any pupils - first and second language - who need to develop strategies for this fairly challenging part of the exam. It is an area where marks can easily be lost.<br /> Pupils will have already been taught what paraphrasing is and the fundamentals of how to join sentences using linking words (Although, However, Even though, Not only… But also… etc.) and will have practised this at sentence level. Moving on they will be provided with the same texts to summarise (possibly from past papers) and will then swap their writing moving clockwise and peer asses each piece of work, thereby learning from each other’s strengths and weaknesses.</p> <p>Please note that the actual IGCSE exam mark scheme awards marks for content and language use and does not correspond exactly with this example. This is designed to highlight and bring to the fore the underlying skills.</p>

<p>A bilingual resource to support Chinese pupils learning AP statistics. I saved this as an A3 paper sized document, printed it on A3 and laminated it. After being cut up, the words were displayed around the board.<br /> Another option is to reduce the size to A5 size so that you can print 2 copies side by side on landscape A4 paper. Laminate them, cut them in half and place them on the desks (ideally in perspex menu or name card holders or similar) as a visual aid for learners working in small groups.</p>

<ol> <li>Pre - listening vocabulary activity. Work in pairs - look at the pictures. Discuss and match the words to the pictures.</li> <li>Now write the words under the pictures.</li> <li>Guess what the song is or is about!</li> <li>Listen and underline or circle the correct word.</li> <li>Listen again and check you your answers.</li> <li>Sing the song!</li> </ol>