English Starter, Filler, Plenary Activities - 15 Editable Tasks Back to School Start of Year

Are you looking for something to engage your students at the start of class? Or what about when you finish an activity sooner than planned and forgot to have a ‘Plan B’?

These 15 short, 5 minute English activities will save you time and stress! They are fully editable, so you can copy and create more slides as you need.

Upon purchase you will receive a link to Canva (free to sign up and use!) to an editable template (you can download the PPT file from there).

The following slides are included:

1. Word of the day (enhancing vocabulary)
2. Riddle me this! (Deciphering riddles)
3. Pun-tastic (re-writing sentences with puns to ‘make sense’)
4. Mystery message (word scramble)
5. Word wonder (making smaller words out of a bigger word)
6. Emoji emotions (writing about emotions)
7. Quote crew (reading quotes and writing their own)
8. Describe it! (Using sensory words, adjective and adverbs to describe a picture)
9. Synonym showdown (writing synonyms of common words)
10. Awesome antonyms (thinking of opposites of common words)
11. Grammar gallop (identifying incorrect grammar in sentences and correcting them)
12. Figurative language fun (writing metaphors and similes from pictures)
13. Story starter stage (5 minute short story prompts)
14. News blast! (Writing informatively about a topic)
15. Tongue twister time (practicing funny tongue twisters with a partner)