Plastic pollution was highlighted recently in ‘The Blue Planet’. This is a reading passage with questions, a vocabulary study, prompts for discussion and they have to rearange the sentences to get advice on what you can do to help. Key included.

Useful practice on describing a picture for the whole class and particularly for EAL students.

Two pages - follow the instructions to colour the figures in/ write up the personal profiles/true or false/choose the correct word.

Some slides to help explain what happened in Paris, if not why. Suitable for younger students. There are some activities to ensure comprehension and hopefully promote some thinking. If there is anything inappropriate, please let me know.

Excellent diagram of a house! A match up exercise - match the names of the rooms to the pictures and a true and false activity. The house template is from eslprintables.

The BBC is going to run this wonderful Christmas-themed clip until Christmas Eve, when apparently something wonderful will happen... (I think it will be Mum's return...). There are 20 questions here to test your students' observational skills. Full key included.

Practice writing full sentences with 'there is&' and &';there are' and counting. They are going to want to colour this picture in! I have permission to use it from the artist, Melanie Hope Greenberg. A bit of fun!

A two page activity to get your students talking and writing about shapes. Parts of this could be used as starters and it could certainly lead to a survey: go onto the street and see how many shapes you can spot and in what circumstances. EAL teachers can use this to teach/reinforce prepositions and the present continuous tense.

This is a writing mat for pupils - they have to follow the instructions to help them with their writing. This is a form to help self-assessment for EAL pupils.

All about trees. Where do we find trees? What lives in trees? What can they do? An activity that you can do off the cuff.

To go with the youtube clip. Pictures and words for Splat! Gap fill, with past simple focus.

A short reading comprehension with a true and false exercise and some questions. Focus past simple tense. Check out the template; it's definitely got the wow factor! I got this from the best EAL site ever - eslprintables. If you are an EAL teacher, join up. It&'ll be the best thing you ever did.

A gap fill exercise to practise the question words and a short reading passage with comprehension questions.

I have simplified the language of the NASSEA steps, so that students can be involved in their assessments and understand where they are and what their targets are.

A nice picture, with activities. Will suit beginners and early intermediates.

These are the NASSEA step levels in language that your students can access.

A great picture, with activities to practise the present continuous tense.

A short, fun RC about an adult's awful day. The focus is the past simple tense.

This is a heart warming, short ghost story with exercises: a true/false, match-up activity and comprehension questions.

A short story on a ppt, (32 slides) with some images and activities. This ppt accompanies my short story of the same title. The wise witch has cast a spell on King Salvo, but ultimately, will it help him to become a better king? A Midas-esque story!