I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
Want to teach your students about hotels and travel?
Practise…
• speaking and listening skills
• sentence building with 8 intermediate-level verb forms
• connected speech
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• information exchange
• reading comprehension
• role playing
• discussion questions
…including tests and full answers!
Discover…
• 20 common English idioms
• 20 common English phrasal verbs
• 20 common English slang words and phrases
• 40 essential vocabulary words and phrases
Note: all activities include full answers. For detailed instructions please see P.xiii.
Contents
Sentence Focus Activities
2. Sentence Blocks + Sentence Blocks (without Function Words)
5. Sentence Block Extensions
6. Sentence Blocks – Sentence Stress and Vowel Sounds
8. Connected Sentence Cards
11. Connected Sentence Cards – with Consonant & Vowel Sounds
14. Connected Speech Template + Cut-Up IPA Sentence
Word Focus Activities
19. Discussion Words + IPA Version + Visualisations
22. Discussion Words Question Sheet
25. Information Exchange
28. Multi-Purpose Text:
• Original Text + Spot the Difference
• Guess the Function Words
• What’s the Question? + True, False, or Unknown?
• Glossary of New Words
Focus on Non-Literal Speech
34. Role Play with Non-Literal English + Features of Non-Literal English – Part 1 39. 20 Common English Idioms + Matching Game + Activities
42. 20 Common English Phrasal Verbs + Matching Game + Activities
45. 20 Common English Slang Words and Phrases + Matching Game + Activities 50. Unit Vocabulary Reference: Facilities, Guests, Staff, and Food and Drink
Free Practice Activities
54. What Would You Do?
55. Discussion Questions
56. Agree or Disagree?
Continuous Assessment Tests
57. Vocabulary Test + Lesson Test
The original book was a public domain book. However, I have removed all the promotional links to the free website from every page and added interesting, colourful and free images which hold the students attention and make them proud to bring their completed book home to show their parents.
I created lots of different guided reading worksheets and ideas which work with any book you already have. These worksheets can be used time and again throughout the year or the reading scheme. Try them today!
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course
A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English!
Intermediate Book 1
• Four full-length spoken English courses
• Over 200 hours of quality learning materials!
• Brand new and unique learning method
• Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms
• Learn real English – idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang!
• Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech
• 100% photocopiable
As well as the teaching material for each course – around 45 hours in total – this book contains more than 100 pages of additional material which complements the course activities, for use in the classroom or for self-study at home.
This book is for students who are studying from intermediate level (B2/FCE) to advanced level (C1/CAE), although there will also be plenty of good material for students at pre-intermediate level. The main proposal of this book is that intermediate level can come as something of a shock for students who realise that, despite dutifully learning all the basic grammatical forms and vocabulary at elementary level, the English language remains just as unknowable as ever, thanks to the introduction – at intermediate level – of non-literal English
– i.e. idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang. Despite knowing plenty of words with their literal meanings, the goal of fluent communication retreats further into the distance, as the student begins to find coded language wherever they look – English that doesn’t make sense as they know it. For example, they may have learned the vocabulary words “cost”, “arm”, and “leg”, but do they know what it means “to cost an arm and a leg”? (To be very expensive!)
Talk a Lot Intermediate provides plenty of practice with these bewildering forms.
I have edited Levels 1 to levels 4 so there are now reading questions relating to every slide. I have mixed up all the original Thinking Hat colours and done away with black and white as I had teachers who felt these were not appropriate in a primary classroom and relaunched it all as Thinking Scarves - I hope you like the changes and leave me a nice comment below!
These books are great to share.
Are you looking for a way of making your "In the news?" topic interesting and relevant? Here is a set of resources, where you can discuss the weather, the impact of Brexit on your life and politics. There are story prompts and ESL courses on politics, crime and other news stories.
36-week spoken English course - 30 different English topics covered! Something For Every Day! There are free versions of this course online. The difference being if you want a product full of pictures or one without pictures and lots of links to the free site you downloaded it from. Some don't mind, others are looking for a more professional image. I took a lot of time to clear away all the hyperlinks, and add photos and I am very happy with the final outcome.
Book 5 covers: The ten lesson topics studied in Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 are: Town, Food, Shopping, Health, Transport, Clothes, Work, Family, Home, and Free Time.
Book 6 covers: Talk a Lot - Crime, Sport, Music, Weather, Animals, Cars, The Human Body, Colours and Numbers, Life Events, and Nature.
Book 7: Elementary Handbook
• General Information about Talk a Lot Courses
• How to Use Talk a Lot Resources
• Focus on Connected Speech
• Focus on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• 100% Photocopiable
Book 8: This books learning units are: Learning English, Films, Hospital, Books, Airport, Money, Places in the UK, Politics, Internet, and Australia.
I enjoyed reading it, editing and making it as clear and clean as possible. Lots of teachers will find it really useful.
Here are some of my best presentations and teaching activities which are linked to water. There are story prompts, a research skill worksheet and visually exciting pictures.
Are you looking for lots of different resources about animals? I have collected a lot of different teaching resources and placed them all into a single bundle so you are able to enjoy them all! You get great resources and a great discount!
Here is a set of motivational teaching tools which should help make your classroom a more open, positive environment. There is a thinking hat detention sheet, motivational behaviour race track, and my happiness course. I have included some motivational posters to place around the classroom.
I lived and I worked in Qatar for a year. I know that while you need to teach about Qatar History, the books you are given are not easy to use and certainly won’t last you a whole year and so I took the books I was given and I extended the tasks to produce a more interesting and more supportive learning environment, ideal for both the teachers and their students to get a lot more out of this topic.
Are you looking for lots of different examples of countries and cultures from around the world? Perhaps some of your class could focus on each of the different countries shown in this list? A great way of starting a conversation and getting everyone interested in learning more!
This Space bundle is out of this world! It is uses a huge number of different resources. It has images from NASA, English story writing prompts and the keywords students need to know about this topic. Try it today!
I love guided reading. I love to get the children to discover more from every book they read. I like my students to look at the same book from different viewpoints, such as by using Thinking Hats to get more out of each book. I have created a wide range of different worksheets which you can use time and again with different books. Try them today.
This is a collection of different early reader books and teaching resources I think you will really enjoy using. I developed my own thinking scarves reading scheme as a replacement for the thinking hats reading scheme and I even converted a whole set of books which could be used with the scheme. I also created PowerPoint versions of a wide range of different “Can you spot it books” where you need to find all the different objects listed in the picture.
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course - A Great New Way to Learn Spoken English. The units are: Learning English, Films, Hospital, Books, Airport, Money, Places in the UK, Politics, Internet, and Australia.
Elementary Book 3
• Complete 12-week spoken English course
• 300+ hours of learning materials – with full answers
• Brand new and unique learning method
• Learn and recall questions, answers and negatives using 8 common verb forms
• Learn 400+ essential vocabulary words
• 100% photocopiable
This book is called Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3, but the skill range is fairly wide, including students at all levels between Elementary (CEF Level A2) to Pre-Intermediate (CEF Level B1). This means that the course is suitable for students studying for the Cambridge KET or PET examinations. Of course, teachers know the level of their students and will use the materials in accordance with what the students are able to (and want to) do. The verb tenses that are covered should be studied by all students at these levels, and the vocabulary words should be generally useful to students from Elementary upwards. However, some of the units may pose more of a challenge to true Elementary learners, because the vocabulary may be less familiar, e.g. Places in the UK and Australia. Similarly, some of the activities are more suitable for students at Pre-Intermediate level than Elementary, such as the Multi-Purpose Texts and Role Plays (although the teacher could adapt the role play situations for lower level students by simplifying them).
As before, the aim of this book is to teach students to think in English and Talk a Lot!
The Talk a Lot course objectives are very simple:
• Every student talking in English
• Every student listening to and understanding English
• Every student thinking in English, and
• Every student taking part in class
Talk a Lot is structured so that every student can practise and improve English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, word and sentence stress, and interpersonal skills, by working in pairs, groups and one to one with the teacher.
The main benefits of Talk a Lot are:
• Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way
• Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course
This books learning units are: Learning English, Films, Hospital, Books, Airport, Money, Places in the UK, Politics, Internet, and Australia.
A Great New Way to Learn Spoken English
Elementary Book 3
• Complete 12-week spoken English course
• 300+ hours of learning materials – with full answers
• Brand new and unique learning method
• Learn and recall questions, answers and negatives using 8 common verb forms
• Learn 400+ essential vocabulary words
• 100% photocopiable
Talk a Lot is a brand new spoken English course from English Banana.com.
The course objectives are very simple:
* Every student talking in English
* Every student listening to and understanding English
* Every student thinking in English, and
* Every student taking part in class
Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 is suitable for students at these levels:
Student’s Level: Common European Framework (CEF): Cambridge Assessment:
Elementary to A2 KET
Pre-Intermediate to B1 PET
Original book was free in the public domain. As you can see from my work, I have substantially improved the original. I have removed all the self promotion weblinks back to the free site and I have added lots of colourful, relevant photos to all the documents, making them much more attractive for students to use...
Practise…
• speaking and listening skills
• sentence building with 8 intermediate-level verb forms
• connected speech
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• information exchange
• reading comprehension
• role playing
• discussion questions
…including tests and full answers!
Discover…
• 20 common English idioms
• 20 common English phrasal verbs
• 20 common English slang words and phrases
• 40 essential vocabulary words and phrases
100% Photocopiable
Note: all activities include full answers. For detailed instructions please see P.xiii.
Contents
Sentence Focus Activities
2. Sentence Blocks + Sentence Blocks (without Function Words)
5. Sentence Block Extensions
6. Sentence Blocks – Sentence Stress and Vowel Sounds
8. Connected Sentence Cards
11. Connected Sentence Cards – with Consonant & Vowel Sounds
14. Connected Speech Template + Cut-Up IPA Sentence
Word Focus Activities
19. Discussion Words + IPA Version + Visualisations
22. Discussion Words Question Sheet
25. Information Exchange
28. Multi-Purpose Text:
• Original Text + Spot the Difference
• Guess the Function Words
• What’s the Question? + True, False, or Unknown?
• Glossary of New Words
Focus on Non-Literal Speech
34. Role Play with Non-Literal English + Features of Non-Literal English – Part 3 39. 20 Common English Idioms + Matching Game + Activities
42. 20 Common English Phrasal Verbs + Matching Game + Activities
45. 20 Common English Slang Words and Phrases + Matching Game + Activities 50. Unit Vocabulary Reference: Radio, Television, Journalism, and New Media
Free Practice Activities
56. What Would You Do?
57. Discussion Questions
59. Agree or Disagree?
Continuous Assessment Tests
60. Vocabulary Test + Lesson Test
Year 2 File for the Spring Term provides daily lesson for every lesson in the term including: introductory 10 minutes mental calculation work, main activity for the whole class and for groups of differing ability.
*********PLEASE NOTE-This is a very big file to download all in one go!***********
I have collected together some of my most popular science related presentations and teaching ideas and offer them to teachers at a greatly reduced price to celebrate Science Week.