A gapfill for the Monkey Puzzle Song by Julia Donaldson on YouTube. The missing words are available in a box with a picture prompt for differentiated support. There is also a worksheet for Makaton signs for animals from the story. This took my class a full hour. We listened to the song to enjoy it. Then we listened twice to do the gapfill. Then we read through the song lyrics in feedback to check our answers. Then we sang the song two times - trying with actions the second time! Then we discussed what Makaton was and made the signs and guessed which animals from the story they could be. Then the students drew their own pictures of the animals next to the signs.

This was 6 hours work for my CLIL class of international students. An introduction to the concept of formal and informal language as well as activities for identifying and using the correct register. An introduction to entrepreneurs and USPs. Vocab and worksheet to help analyse a Dragon’s Den pitch, and then some guidance on creating their own pitch.

An engaging PPT to help students identify good presentation skills. There are some slides at the end to help students think of an idea for creating their own TED Talk. This lesson was given after the students had already watched and understood a TED Talk.

I made this PPT for a CLIL lesson with international students. It introduces the idea of cause and effect in Geography, and how we can use the first conditional for talking about causes and effects.

A 24-page workbook created for independent study for EAL young learners. Different activities for all levels Pre-A1, suiting Starters, Movers and Flyers. Students can complete tasks for homework, or work on individual targets during class to help develop indpendent study skills. Really helpful with differentiation if you have a standout weaker student who needs extra practice, or stronger students who can work through tasks as early finishers. Tasks range from letter to word to sentence level including some phonics, grammar, and punctuation. Tasks are designed to engage also including colouring, wordsearch and dot to dot activities.