Back-To-The-Board style class guessing game. Work in teams to give clues to your team-mate to guess the word but you cannot say certain words.

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.

A worksheet designed for a 1:1 literacy class with a primary student. Aimed to develop reading comprehension, story telling and writing skills. Would work well within a young learner EAL classroom too.

A PPT Team Game. Seat one person with their back to the board. The other students try to communicate what’s on the board using only body language and gestures. A great ice breaker for an international classroom, especially for lower levels.

A PPT helping students discuss feelings, learn idiomatic phrases relating to emotions, identify synonyms for different emotions, and develop their use of English in sentence transformation activities about feelings and emotions. Ideal for ESL learners studying PET (Cambridge Preliminary) or FCE (Cambridge First). NB: Students will need access to the Internet to get the most out of this resource.

A PowerPoint which includes a game for students to identify vocabulary for hobbies, creating questions about hobbies, identify collocations for hobbies, and creating sentences using adverbs of frequency about freetime and hobbies.

Example sentences for students to sort into the correct groups for persuasive writing with AFOREST features. There are categories for Alliteration, Facts, Opinions, Repetition, Rhetorical Questions, Emotive Language, Statistics and The rule of Three. Answers are not included as some sentences may fall into more than one category and it can be a good opportunity for debate in feedback.

Reading task for A2/B1 students, ideal for those studying Cambridge Preliminary (PET) Test. Based on the topic of TV Programmes.

Worksheet for B1 level students with lots of different useful vocabulary for shopping, particularly clothes shopping.

An engaging PowerPoint to introduce Young Learners to vocabulary for transport and describing transport. Pre-A1 level.

A worksheet to help students identify techniques for the PET (Cambridge Preliminary) Speaking Test for describing a photograph. Useful phrases and chunks of language to help develop their discourse management.

A worksheet helping students to identify vocabulary for family members, build sentences about family members, and a gap-fill based on a KET (Cambridge KEY) style Reading task. Ideal for A1/A2 ESL learners of all ages.

Students sort health vocabulary into the correct column ‘illness’, ‘accident’ or ‘treatment’. Students are then asked to create sentences using the vocabulary.

A PPT which guides students through identifying the different functions of different emails, inntroducing useful phrases and sentence starters for different purposes. Students also consider formal and informal language and opening and closing phrases.

An introduction to the wider topic of mental health focusing on identifying vocabulary for different emotions. Includes emotions people may feel in different situations and distinguishing between positive and negative emotions.

A puzzle where students match questions to the answers. Ideal for ESL students learning question forms. A1

Short simple sentences encourage learner to guess the animal they are describing. Designed for young learner ESL students. Pre-A1, YLE

Worksheet where students read sentences describing a room and identify which photograph the sentence is describing. Useful for furniture vocabulary and prepositions. ESL A2.