Professional, engaging, ready to use resources. PowerPoints, Worksheets, Crosswords
I have a varied background working in both education and the corporate world. I've held management roles, teaching roles and entrepreneurial ventures. I've been involved in adult education for the past two decades. My teaching areas are computing and workplace communication skills. I also have my CELTA and have experience teaching English as a second language. I love creating resources for all of the above.
Professional, engaging, ready to use resources. PowerPoints, Worksheets, Crosswords
I have a varied background working in both education and the corporate world. I've held management roles, teaching roles and entrepreneurial ventures. I've been involved in adult education for the past two decades. My teaching areas are computing and workplace communication skills. I also have my CELTA and have experience teaching English as a second language. I love creating resources for all of the above.
Lesson Starter / Warmup
Start the lesson with a fun dice game focussing on Personal Protective Equipment.
Move on to a mix and match group activity exploring common words taken from H&S Policies.
Mental health awareness reading passage and comprehension questions.
Ensure learners know about the forms to use in the workplace and when to use them with the Workplace Incident / Accident / Near Miss lesson and the Template to be filled in when an incident occurs.
Finish off with a fun crossword puzzle that reinforces the same words learnt previously.
Lots of room for discussion in these topics.
Are you looking for no prep, engaging resources on Health and Safety in the Workplace? This lesson starts with a reading passage and has true / false questions as well as more in depth comprehension questions for students to answer.
What’s Included:
One-Page Reading Passage: Our one-page reading passage introduces students to the vital concepts of workplace health and safety. This high school level content is designed to be informative, accessible, and thought-provoking.
10 True/False Questions: Test your students’ understanding with 10 true/false questions that cover key points from the reading passage. These questions encourage critical thinking and comprehension, allowing you to assess their grasp of the topic.
10 Comprehension Questions: Deepen your students’ engagement with the topic using our carefully designed comprehension questions. These questions encourage students to think critically about workplace safety concepts and apply their knowledge.
Answer Sheets: No need to worry about grading! We provide answer sheets for both the true/false and comprehension questions, making assessment a breeze.
Clear Instructions: Our easy-to-follow instructions guide you through using this resource effectively in your classroom, whether in-person or through distance learning.
10 Optional Activities: Take your teaching to the next level with 10 additional optional activities. From case studies to safety skits, these activities are designed to captivate your students’ interest and enhance their understanding of workplace health and safety. These activities are perfect for differentiation and promoting active participation.
If you have any questions about this resource please contact me at resourcecreator1@gmail.com.
Your students will love these task cards on conflict management that engage their problem solving and critical thinking skills. All essential life and workplace skills.
Teachers note that there is also a pdf supplied that provides responses to the Task Cards, ensuring that key points are touched on within the discussions.
Conflict Management is an important life-skill for business education, the workplace and the classroom. This resource generates important discussions and can be used in pair or group activities. Great for when you have a sub as well.
Refer to the preview for more information and to find step by step quick instructions for creating the task cards. Its as easy as printing, laminating and cutting. (or if you don’t want to laminate, just print out on card stock). Once prepared they are ready and done for years to come.
I hope you enjoy using these, as much as my students have.
Canva is an excellent, free, design tool that can save you time and money. It makes sense to use this instead of paying for expensive designers. This resource comes in PPT form and a pdf. The PPT is 27 slides.
This training PowerPoint and PDF is a basic step by step guide to get you started. A Facebook post is created for the purposes of an example, however, the skills learnt can be applied to other promotional documents such as Covers, brochures, posters, instagram posts, twitter posts, etc.
You can use Canva to market your store, and / or use it as a class lesson. Students / learners can create posters, design promotional material on a topic of your choice, etc.
Topics covered in Step by Step, graphic format:
Signing up and Logging on to Canva
Creating a Social Media Post
Layout Choices
Using the Objects Toolbar
Inserting and Changing Text
Moving and Rotating Text Placeholders
Finishing off with Frames
Sharing your Design
Also available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/canva-how-to-create-a-logo-with-a-transparent-background-11767063
Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This covers essential skills to have and build on in the work environment.
Assertive Communication
Preparing an Elevator Speech
Complaint Resolution methods
Conflict Resolution
Problem solving in relation to projects and workplace issues
Customer Service Skills worksheet
Email Communication
Ethics and Workplace Dilemmas
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Goal Setting using SMART goals
Health & Safety
Identifying your Values individually and as a team
Writing Standard Operating procedures (sops)
Teamwork
Microsoft Powerpoint
This is a 25 slide engaging powerpoint presentation that covers the important topic of Active Listening. It includes information on Body Language, Questioning, Paraphrasing, Facial Expressions, and best practice techniques. It is provided with a warm up group excercise and a lesson plan.
Teachers notes are included that contains additional information and answers to questions that are posed to students.
There is a pdf version and a ppt version that can be edited if required.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This diagram can be printed out for ESOL learners who are studying the future tenses. It covers Present Continuous, Present Simple, Be going to and Will. The diagram demonstrates both useage and form and provides examples. The can be incorporated into a lesson or used on its own.
It also has a handout for students to complete. They do this by writing their own sentences into the speech bubbles using the correct form.
When I used it, I had a colour copy enlarged to A3 and also provided the learners with an A4 copy. They very much appreciated it.
Separate resources that can be used as icebreakers, warmers, parts of lessons, and in some cases whole lessons. Developed for Adults.
Business emails - 20 page e-book
The Verb 'To Be' simple present
Future tense diagrams and activities
Homophones
Synonym and Antonym worksheets and activities
Present and past tense irregular verb game
Things in Common Icebreaker
Giving good verbal instructions
Small Talk Presentation - Interactive lesson
This is a 20 slide professional presentation that also contains word templates for learners to work on as part of the training presentation. The presentation includes step by step processes and you-tube examples. There is also a teachers document that contains extra information relating to the slides.
Learning Objectives:
You will learn how to Brainstorm effectively to generate ideas.
You will then use the Fish Bone Analysis tool to identify the cause and effect of a workplace problem.
Finally, you will create a SMART goal to address the problem.
This is an effective introduction for learners that are about to embark upon a project in any industry. It encourages good practice for resolution of issues and problems. It gives them essential skills to work through issues using logical methods.
A marketing plan is an essential document for a business to have. This resource provides a template for you or your team to work through to put together a workable plan with key objectives and actions to take. It could also be used for a project based task for schools.
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail." Benjamin Franklin.
It has been provided in a pdf and word document so that you can type in and edit as required.
Canva is an excellent, free, design tool that can save us time and money. It makes sense to use this instead of paying for expensive designers.
This step by step guide addresses the problem of not being able to create a transparent background logo in Canva (without paying). When the background is white or doesn’t match your document, it ends up looking unprofessional.
Solution:
The logo is created in Canva.
Once created and saved, we use a separate website to make the white background transparent.
It can then be used for multiple documents with ease and have that professional look to it.
This resource contains a lesson plan and all materials necessary to conduct the training session. Just print out what you need and go! It is supplied in word and pdf format so that you can edit it if necessary for your audience.
It has a warm up that gets learners thinking about job interview skills with a series of questions that they discuss in pairs. There is a handout for them to record their answers.
The lesson runs them through two role plays for conducting interviews. Job descriptions and roles are provided. The first is done in pairs and the second is done in groups for a panel interview. Interviews are carried out and the best fit candidate is selected by learners.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
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This resource is for those new to creating Charts in Excel. There are step by step instructions within the training manual to learn how to create and modify bar charts and pie charts. It is a ready to go lesson that requires no further prep. This is a 2 hour lesson that has tasks for learners to complete.
Learning Objectives:
Create a simple bar chart with existing data.
Create a simple pie chart to show percentages
Modify bar and pie charts to enhance presentation and update details.
The files come in a word document that can be edited (if required for your audience) and also a pdf. There is an excel file that is an exercise file.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This is a Finance vocabulary Crossword Puzzle and Word Search that is suitable for introducing key words to learners. It is a fun activity to complete individually or in teams. Answers are included. Can be used for ESL, Workplace Training or general English.
It is supplied as a pdf and a word document in case you want to edit the descriptions to suit your needs.
There are 20 financial terms contained within the Word Search and Crossword Puzzle. The words are the same for each worksheet.
Word bank below:
Budget
Finance
Debt
Surplus
Net Income
Tax
Expenses
Cash
ATM
Borrow
Broke
Bitcoin
Currency
Interest
Invest
Save
Receipt
Withdraw
Tip
Refund
This resource is for those that are new to Microsoft Excel and want to quickly learn and practice using calculations in Excel. The spreadsheet has a number of different sheets within it that have clear instructions and practice exercises to use for yourself or your learners to quickly master basic concepts.
I have used this to teach students and workplace learners with much success.
Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on sheet 1. Sheet 2 has Autosum and subsequent sheets practice using these with common spreadsheets such as invoices and profit and loss scenarios. Simply give learners a copy of this spreadsheet and work through together or let them try by themselves.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This resource is a step by step training manual with screen shots and exercises for learners to complete. Attached are exercises to complete. There is also a short cut keys summary at the back of the manual that is really handy to print out and keep by the computer for easy reference.
This lesson summarises Thomas Kilmanns framework on Conflict Resolution. It covers the different styles of competing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising and collaborating in an easy to understand visual table.
There is a task for learners to complete that has them filling in examples of the styles. There is also a word document that has reference to a couple of you-tube videos that can be useful to introduce the lesson.
Files are presented in pdf and word format for editing if required.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This resource contains information on how to plan and run an effective meeting as a step by step process. There is also a gap fill activity for learners to complete and both Agenda and Meeting templates that learners could fill out.
I use these documents for learners to conduct a mock team meeting.
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Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources
This ebook has icebreaker activities and games for Business, Workplace, and the ESL classroom. Great for opening training sessions, meetings and back to school introductions. This resource is perfect to get you off to the right start and have all participants in the right frame of mind for learning.
In this resource you will get a 15 page ebook that is packed with ideas and suggestions on ice breakers to use, as well as printouts for your students / learners to use when needed to write down answers.
Topics listed below:
Introduction
Two Truths and a Lie
First Impressions
Things in Common
Baby Photos
Categories
On the Spot
Clear out your Mind
Job Search: Fact or Fiction
Ice breakers for Meetings
Ice breakers for Virtual Meetings
Ice breaker Questions