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Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
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Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
Teaching about food is always fun. It’s even more fun with beginners! The question is where do we start? How can we be sure that we have integrated all the vocabulary and grammar relevant to their level?
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource with a PPT and booklet will help you teach about food items, meals and food habits. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to textbooks/material.
The resource contains a PPT with 39 slides and a booklet with 14 pages full of activities for your students so that they can keep a track of their learning. The activities are corrected in the PPT to save you time.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains reading and writing activities to consolidate their grammatical skills and improve their writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A brainstorming with a shopping list as a starter
- A classification of items
- A dictionary contest
- A reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A grammar point about indefinite articles (du, de la, des)
- A practice about the grammar point
- A ranking activity with likes, dislikes and opinions
- Vocabulary about other meals (lunch, snack, dinner)
- Further vocabulary matching up about fruit and vegetables
- A conversation with opinions in pairs
- 2 writing activities about food and favorite dishes.
- A review of objectives
Have fun!
Poisson d'Avril
Here's a nice bundle that consists of a powerpoint (22 slides) and booklet (11 pages) to teach your students about April fools' day. They contain:
- a SMART setting slide
- a video
- a text to read about
- a true false activity
- a word search
- emails to read about April fools' day
- grammar point about the imperative
- a practice
- 4 fish to cut for students
- a speaking activity about opinions
- sentences to unjumble
Enjoy! Bon 1er Avril!
Teaching beginners in English is great fun but there is so much content to teach that we are not always clear where to start.
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about family, physical description (face and shape) and a grammar point about the verb HAVE. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 31 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative with 2 listening activities and multiple opportunities for speaking to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains a grammar point and interactive reading activities reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about personality adjectives and family members with a picture to label and a reading as a starter
- A listening/reading with a matching up
- Classification activities for adjectives
- An introduction to descriptive elements of the face (eyes, hair)
- A grammar point with the verb HAVE with examples
- Exercises (matching up Q/A, filling gap)
- Introduction to description elements of shape
- A listening activity about a movie review
- Interactive reading activities with a guessing game description
- 2 writing activities
- a word search as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 1 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Check Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Beginners in English usually like telling about where they come from and where they live. How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about places (city, village, countryside…), types of accommodation (house, flat, farm…) and grammar points there is/are with vocabulary of places (traffic, pollution, cars, parks…) and likes/dislikes related to places and accommodations (beautiful, quiet, noisy…). This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 30 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- Texts with questions
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Reading activity with matching up
- Vocabulary activities about places
- Matching up activities (places, accommodations)
- Classification of likes/dislikes and reasons
- Reading activity with pictures to circle/cross out
- Grammar point about there is/are
- Describing activity with drawing in pairs
- A writing
- A word search
- Review of objectives
Have fun!
Teaching grammar to beginners in ESL is not always easy. How about having all the grammar in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback? This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
- Verb be
- Simple present
- Possessive adjectives/Subject pronouns
- Wh-questions/Yes-No Questions
- Adverbs of frequency
Each slide of the 31-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, choosing the right option, correction the mistakes, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge
Have fun teaching grammar!
Check more lessons for this Unit 1 :
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and adverbs of frequency
Beginners in English are always eager to communicate about their job, daily routine and personality. How about having an interactive lesson in context with the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about jobs and the daily routine. It also contains a recap about adjectives of personality and the simple present. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 31 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 13 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about personality adjectives with letters to reorder and a matching up
- Videos with questions (to introduce the jobs and the verbs of the daily routine)
- Matching up (between jobs and personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs (ranking activity, survey, interview)
- Reading activity based on a forum and ads
- 1 grammar points followed by an exercise about jobs
- Writing activities
- Games (noughts and crosses and Bingo)
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
When we teach beginners in English one of the first lessons is about family and description with the use of the verb BE. How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about family, age, personality description and grammar points about the verb BE and adjectives. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 28 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 11 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains grammar points reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about self-introduction with questions to answer and to be created
- Matching up (about family members, age, personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Family trees
- Classification activities for adjectives
- Reading activity
- Guessing game about family members
- 2 grammar points followed by exercises and correction (BE and adjectives)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 5
to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
Need more ESL lesson Check Unit 1 :
Unit1 Lesson1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit1 lesson2 Number and basic question
Unit1 Lesson3 Food, like and opinions
Unit1 Lesson4 Hobbies and adverbs of frequency
Any questions : carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about places, activities and adverbs of frequency. If you need to introduce activities people do on the weekend with the use of adverbs of frequency, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 12 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way.
This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains a powerpoint with 33 slides and an activity booklet for students with 12 pages with:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 3 about food, likes and opinions
2. a quiz about different places in the world
3. videos
- video about London,
- video about China
- video about Rio de Janeiro with questions
4. texts about people to discover what they do on their weekends
5. a comprehension grid
6. a matching up activity
7. a grammar point about adverbs of frequency
8. a practice about the present simple with the use of adverbs of frequency
9. a writing activity
10. a speaking game as a plenary
11. a review of objectives
Enjoy!
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Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 country and nationality, like and opinion
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about food, nationalities and countries (review from lesson 1), likes and opinions. If you need to introduce likes, dislikes, opinions, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 16 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way. This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 2
2. an introduction to recap about countries and food items
3. a video about food in the world
4. a recap about what people eat according to the different countries
5. a recap about questions for nationalities and countries with celebrities guessing- including a video about a chef cooking
6. a grammar point about he/she -his/her followed by 3 practices
7.a video to recap about food but especially to introduce the adjectives of opinions
8. an activity with opinions to complete
9. 2 speaking activities about International food so that students can reuse the opinion words
10. reading activities about if people like cooking or not with a comprehension grid
11. a writing activity
12. a survey
13. a review of objectives
Enjoy! Check and follow my store for more resources!
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Teaching grammar and vocabulary to beginners in ESL is not always easy. By the time we complete a Unit, many students will have forgotten important vocabulary and grammar points! So consolidation of the knowledge is absolutely vital!
How about having all the grammar and vocabulary in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply clicking on the buttons in the content page!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- family
- personality
- physical description
- jobs
- workplaces
- daily routine
Grammar:
- Nouns (a, an and plural)
- Possessive’s
- To HAVE/to BE
- Adjectives
Each slide of the 34-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, matching-up, choosing the right option, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Check other lesson of this Unit :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Unit 2 Lesson 4 Job and workplace
Watching TV may seem obsolete now with the easy access to the Internet. However, our students still watch TV and different different TV programs. How about teaching some vocabulary about TV shows then while reinforcing opinions and introducing the near future tense? This complete lesson made of a PPT with 27 slides and an activity booklet of 11 pages will help you teach not only about TV programs but also about grammar in a fun way.
Here's what you'll get:
-a self-target setting slide
- a matching up activity with TV programs
- an introduction to vocabulary and drilling through games ( slapping the board, say what it is, missing vowels etc.)
- a true/false activity
- a survey with questions about TV habits to recap adverbs of frequency
- a review about likes and dislikes
- a snakes and ladder
- a "Find who did it" activity to recap the past tense
- a grammar point about the near future tense + practice (filling -gap)
- a reading activity ( filling-gap, find the French, answer the questions)
- a pair work to extend their speaking ( What are you going to do? When? With who? Where?)
- Plenary with noughts and crosses
Have fun!
ESL Unit1 Lesson 2
Learn about number / Basic questions / Recognizing cognates / Filling a form
Here’s a nice presentation with 40 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English - a basic/elementary level. The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
So if you need to teach your students about numbers up to 10, answering basic personal questions, learning about the verb “BE” and have them to fill in a form, here you are! This interactive lesson will help you developed these skills. All 4 skills are also embedded.
The lesson is aimed at teenagers, young adults or adults with little or no English at all. It is all about giving them confidence in learning this new language. So whatever their mother tongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about what they have learned in Unit 1 lesson 1 the alphabet and basic questions
2. An interactive activity with a forum where students can read about other students telling about why English is important for them. Students need to recognize cognates.
3. A writing activity about why English is important for them
4. A review about the alphabet pronunciation and IPA with a text message to decipher
5. An introduction to numbers with a matching up
6. 3 short listening activities with filling gaps
7. A reading/writing activity to fill in a form
8. Questions to reorder
9. Questions and answers to match up
10. A grammar point about word order for questions and answers
11. A second grammar point about the verb BE
12. A form to fill for themselves
13. Questions to ask their partner to practice their questions/answers
14. Review of objectives
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
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Happy Saint Paddy’s
Saint Patrick’s day is always a nice celebration and a great opportunity for us as ESL teachers to teach some vocabulary and culture in a fun way. How about having interactive activities with songs, videos, speaking and reading activities in one resource? This is what you will get with this resource:
A PPT with 36 slides and an activity booklet with 13 pages full of activities and games to engage your students.
It contains:
a self-target setting slide
questions based on a video
a reading activity
a true/false activity
introduction to the vocabulary and a drilling game
a speaking activity with likes and dislikes
a maze
colouring activities
a writing activity
a group project
a Rhyming guessing game
2 songs for teenagers and/or adults
a word search
Looking for these resources individually in my store?Check them here:
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We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach numbers in French I clearly recommend a fun yet efficient approach that will hook them. Playing cards combines all these features.
The other good thing about this resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Counting from 0 to 30 in French
Identifying and reading numbers
Comparing numbers in figures and letters
Here’s what you get:
31 playing cards from 0 to 30
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun!
If you are looking for a fun approach to teach your beginners French the alphabet, this resource is the right one for you. We all know that our students learn best when they work collaboratively and when they have fun. So I have designed this resource with these two features in mind: Collaboration and fun stuff!!
The other good thing about this playing cards resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Learning the alphabet
Identifying and reading letters and words
Using the sign language to learn the alphabet
Here’s what you get:
52 playing cards from a to z
6 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
(some designs for your box/cards as an extra)
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun!
If you are planning to teach school subjects in French to beginners, this resource is what you need. It will help you reinforce the vocabulary learnt in the class or you can use it as a starter to introduce your students to the topic.
While playing collaboratively your students will reinforce their knowledge of the vocabulary. I have also included the English version of the cards so that you can differentiate even more and play more games.
The other good thing about this playing cards resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
reinforce/discover the vocabulary about school subjects in French
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards in French
30 playing cards in English
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
(some designs for your box/cards as an extra)
The font and designs have been created to bring clarity to all learners
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Check my other playing cards for more efficiency in your class!
This fun resource has been designed to help young learners use the vocabulary about school objects in French. While playing collaboratively they will reinforce their knowledge of the vocabulary. I have also included the English version of the cards so that you can differentiate even more and play more games.
The other good thing about this playing cards resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
reinforce/discover the vocabulary about school objects in French
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards in French
30 playing cards in English
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
(some designs for your box/cards as an extra)
The font and designs have been created to bring clarity to all learners
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Check my other playing cards for more efficiency in your class!
This fun resource has been designed to help young learners discover how to put syllables together in French to create words. It will help them decipher the syllables while having fun and working collaboratively.
The other good thing about this playing cards resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Identifying the sounds and the syllables
Identifying and reading syllables and words
Here’s what you get:
88 playing cards:
24 blue caterpillar cards with consonant sounds: m-n-gn-p-t-c-cu-k-qu-b-d-g-gu-f-ph-s-ç-ch-x
64 green caterpillar cards vowel sounds: a(x2)-e(x2)-i(x2)-o(x2)-u(x2)-y(x2)-é(x2)-è(x2)-eu-oe-oeu-au-eau-ai-ei-est-es-er-et-ez-oi-ou-on-om-in-im-ain-aim-ein-ym-un-um-an-am-en-em-ion-ien-ian-ieu-oin-ette-esse-erre-enne-eff-elle-ill-ail-aille-eil-eille-euil-euille-ouil-ouille
A “split caterpillar” to facilitate the reading progression
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
(some designs for your box/cards as an extra)
The font and designs have been created to bring clarity to all learners
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Check my other playing cards for more efficiency in your class!
Teaching French is not just about the language, it’s about all the cultural heritage that surrounds it. That said, finding ways to interest our students about geography, history and cultural heritage can be tricky.
I have designed this resource with my class of teenagers in mind who need to know more about France.
I would suggest you use it with a group of intermediate/advanced students as all the questions are in French. Don’t worry, the answers are provided to give your students all the autonomy they need to play.
You can use these speaking cards as a starter to check how much they know about the topic and you can use the boardgame with some dice to roll. That’s up to you and your needs!
The 45 cards are differentiated in terms of topic (15 green cards for basic general French culture, 15 orange cards for geography and history and 15 purple cards for cultural heritage)
You can use them as such in small groups or pairs of students and you can use the mini-game provided.
A good pair of scissors, a laminator and here you go!
Teaching grammar can be fun if you have the right tools. We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach French verbs at the present tense, don’t look any further. This resource is the right one for you! The other good thing about it is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
Here’s what you get:
72 playing cards with the 12 most used verbs in French (All 3 groups)
être
avoir
chanter
aimer
parler
écouter
finir
faire
dire
pouvoir
aller
voir
4 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun!