A 60 page pack of communicative activities for ESL/EAL/EFL teachers. Print off the relevant lesson and go. Loads of activities with communication built in, scaffolded activities, word recognition activities as well as reading and writing activities. Also links to videos.
Topics covered:
Introductions
Countries and Nationalities
Numbers
Classroom instructions
Parts of the body
Colours
Classroom objects
Clothes
Shapes and sizes
Actions – Present Continuous
Daily routines – present simple
Emotions
Jobs
Animals
Family
Prepositions of place
Food and drink
Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly.
Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key.
I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.
Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding.
3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for.
Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages.
Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school.
Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.).
The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!
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This 18 slide presentation breaks down the language surrounding racism with definitions, examples and talking points.
Students will learn what the various terms mean, see examples and give their own examples, before seeing examples from the real world, with photographs in the last few slides.
This is an excellent resource for opening up conversations about race and racism and get students to really think about the different types of racism and how they potentially are contributors to racism themselves through their choice of language.
A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake.
Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.
Six posters breaking down how to use 6 tenses in English - Present simple, Present continuous, Past simple, Past continuous, Future with ‘will’ and Future with ‘Going to’.
Colourful displays to print out and stick up on the wall or into student notebooks (A3 or A4 for the wall, A4 or A5 for the notebooks). The structures allow students to check their own sentence structures and to get their sentences right while they are learning.
The 60 page Tigerlearn resource pack for beginners, packed full of worksheets/
A pack of controlled practice cards for a whole load of vocabulary
A 6 tense error correction PPT
A possessives review PPT
TWO editable game PPTs including
-AGENT LUCY AND THE ALIEN INVASION, gamify your semester simply by adding your own weekly challenges
-An editable multichoice PPT, just add your own questions
This is a spelling and vocabulary review game generator. it works with any words, so use it to review your weekly spelling lists in game form.
A very straight forward tool. Simply type 20 words which you want students to review into a list, choose whether you want a snakes 'n ladders format or a more generic board game and print onto A4 or A3 paper. Words are placed randomly over the board. If you want to re-order the words, press F9 for a refresh and the games will regenerate.
The games work as follows. Students roll a die, move a counter and spell or define the word they land on (variations would be simple, too - give a synonym/antonym etc).
Playing small review games often is a much more effective system to get students to remember vocabulary than simply giving them a list of words. The game itself will work in any language. Try English, French, German, even Chinese. The kids will love it, too!
A ready to go speaking competition for English language learners. Describe one of ten pictures, take part in a role play and give a short speech. Divided into 3 rounds. Use this as a whole school competition (10 competitors) or simply as a class activity.
In the first round, up to ten competitors will describe a picture. Judges will choose up to eight competitors to continue to round 2.
In round two, competitors will participate in a role play with a partner, based on a given scenario. Judges will choose up to 3 competitors for the final round.
In the final round, each competitor will give a talk on the chosen topic. Judges will choose a winner.
A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for Grade 2 students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time.
Get ready to explore the world of vocabulary with Vocabulary Crunch, perfect for Grade 2 students.
Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts.
With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills.
Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today.
Texts|Genres
Animals and Ecosystems | Information
Space Adventure | Script
Dinosaurs | Information
The future is fun | Poetry
Acrostic poem about the future| Poetry
How to make a Caesar Cypher| instructions
Mansa Musa | Biography
How to play dodgeball| Instructions
A magical Map| Fiction
Why you should study ancient civilizations | Persuasive
A focused approach to building vocabulary and literacy for students, one vocabulary list and one genre at a time.
This is a bundle of the Grade 2, Grade 3 and Grade 4 Vocabulary Crunch books
Vocabulary Crunch provides engaging texts of curriculum and grade-aligned genres, along with vocabulary lists and reading comprehension questions to help students better understand the texts.
With Vocabulary Crunch, students will build their vocabulary and improve their literacy skills.
Start your journey with vocabulary crunch today.
Step by Step PPTs, worksheets and explainers on a range of topics - multiplication, fractions, addition and subtraction, area/volume/perimeter, all included in one great bundle for maths teachers.
ALSO INCLUDED- 2 great generic game PPTs
A fantastic card game for Halloween. Just print out one set of cards for every set of 6-8 students.
Suitable for US/UK
Players work in a team of 2 and play in a group of 8.
Cards are laid out in 2 piles - Action cards and Ghoul cards.
On your team's turn, take one card from each pack and follow the instructions [eg...Sculpt a witch with a blindfold, Act a vampire with a puppet (one player is the puppet master, the other the puppet)]
The other teams guess. The first team to guess your ghoul correctly gets a point and you get a point. The team with the most points when the game ends is the winner.
2 versions depending on the size of cards you want. Either print out version 1 and cut the cards out, or use the full page version and adjust your printer settings to make half page cards etc.
An excellent game to get children communicating and having fun, while using Christmas vocab to get into the spirit of the season.
Lay out the action cards on one side and the character cards on the other.
Teams take turns to choose two cards and follow the instructions.
Do you need to sculpt santa with a blindfold?
Use your partner as a puppet to act an Elf?
Who knows? What everyone can be sure of, though, is that it will be bags of fun!
2 page worksheet for teaching classroom objects with the I have/don't have structure.
This is a just one unit of the ESL resource pack from Tigerlearn - for a more comprehensive 60 page product, go for that.
A complete ESL/EAL inquiry based lesson can be built around this worksheet.
Includes scaffolded writing activities. Read about one family, write sentences about your own family, then create a family tree based on the descriptions. Use the family tree to understand the sentences given about the family and work out the meaning of new words.
This is just one unit from the Tigerlearn EAL resource pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/60-page-esl-eal-activity-pack-for-english-teachers-11364056
A simple introductory PPT for the silent E. Students practise the short vowel sounds of CVC words and then the long vowel sounds of silent E words, with a short explanation.
They then practise reading the words with different vowel sounds and identify which words have which vowel sounds.
A short PPT introducing the Be verb in the present tense.
Students practise using the be verb for different subjects and then shortening the sentences using an apostrophe.
A very simple presentation to introduce the past tense of the Be verb as ‘was’ and ‘were’. Students make sentences in affirmative and negative forms, identify sentences as past or present and change sentences from present to past.