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
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
A colourful powerpoint presentation with 6 slides to introduce the vocabulary about chores. It contains
- a reading activity as a starter
- a matching up
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs, ER verbs, IR verbs and FAIRE at the present tense
- a review of objectives
What time is it in french / Quelle heure est-il en francais ?
What time is it in french / Quelle heure est-il en francais ?
Here is a colourful 6 slide powerpoint to be used as lesson starter
It contains :
- a reading activity about the daily routine
- a bingo to revise numbers
- an introduction to tell the time with clocks ( past/to -quarter/half- midday/midnight)
- writing activity with clocks
Full version can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/what-time-is-it-in-french-no-prep-lesson-activities-quel-heure-est-il-en-francais-no-prep-11119098
Here’s a Powerpoint about school objects with 7 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a labeling activity
- a matching up activity
- a grammar point
- a wordsearch
- a review of objectives
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/french-school-objects-lesson--activity-no-prep--les-objets-de-la-classe-en-fran-ais-11090102
When teaching about the house for beginners in English there are so many ways that it is difficult to know 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 furniture in different rooms and prepositions of places. There is also a recap about rooms in the house. 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 10 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 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 video about accommodations with questions
- Texts about apartments to match up to pictures
- A video to introduce the idea of flat share and flat interview
- A personal quiz about personality
- Labelling activities about furniture
- Matching up
- Speaking in pairs
- Games (bingo)
- Grammar point about prepositions
- Matching up between pictures and sentences
- True/False activity
- Description game in pairs about prepositions, furniture and rooms
- Reading with choosing the right option
- Writing activity
- Definitions and words to put in the grid as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 3 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 3 Lesson 1 Where I live ?
Unit 3 Lesson 2 Describe your house
Here is a very colorful powerpoint with 27 slides and its booklet with 8 pages about Christmas.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- 1 video -as a starter to introduce some vocabulary
- information about how Christmas is celebrated in France
- a True-False activity
- an introduction to the vocabulary through drilling and a missing picture game.
- a word search
- a maze -to free Santa Claus-
- 2 colouring pictures
- a postcard to write for their parents
- a dialogue with Santa Claus to fill in with present wishes
- a song with a filling gap activity and a puzzle as plenary.
I wish you all a very nice Christmas!
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!
Teaching beginners in ESL can be great fun but what:
- when we don’t know where to start?
- when we have a mixed ability class?
- when our material isn’t updated or adapted?
You will find in this bundle enough material to teach your students for about a week (60/90 minutes for each lesson). Vocabulary in context, grammar with clear explanation, exercises and feedback to save you time and focus on the actual learning process.
It is flexible to help you teach ESL/EAL students beginners/elementary about vocabulary:
Places where we live (city, village, suburbs, seaside…), description of places (calm, noisy, clean…), types of accommodations (house, apartment/flat, hotel…), rooms, furniture, household chores
and about grammar:
There is/are, this/that/these/those, likes-dislikes (with nouns/verbs in –ING) and reasons, adjectives, prepositions of places
The bundle contains 5 powerpoint presentations with about 30 slides each 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.
You’ll also find with each lesson an activity booklet for students so that they keep a written record of their learning.
The approach is communicative and follows a logical structure to reinforce students’ knowledge day after day. 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:
- Listening activities
- Videos with questions
- Matching up activities
- Filling gaps
- Classification activities
- Speaking activities (surveys, games…)
- Reading activities from articles, tourist brochures, forum (with questions, vocabulary focus…)
- Games (bingo, drawing and speaking description)
- Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be bought individually in my shop.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
You can check them below:
Here’s a nice presentation with 39 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English for the first time. (Unit 1 / Lesson 1)
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 mothertongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about why it is important to learn English with a fun short video
2. A Truth/Myth activity about learning English
3. A writestorming about countries
4. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
5. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
6. Further practice with countries in Europe (aimed at more proficient students)
7. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
8. A matching up activity between European countries and flags to go further
9. A wordsearch
10. An interactive map with 8 students telling where they come from, which nationality they are, what they study or what they like
11. A comprehension grid to fill in with the texts about the students
12. A country/nationality matching up with a short grammar point about Capital letters and nationalities endings
13. Language work about formal and informal greetings
14. Complete the grid activity with greetings according to the time of the day
15. Introduction to the alphabet with the sign language and 2 audio recorded.
16. Filling the grid activity with words students already know
17. Reordering the conversation activity between two students
18. Filling the gaps with the missing words
19. Practising the conversation in pairs
20. Review of objectives
The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
All the lesson can be used at his full potential offline just download and copy the lesson on your USB key and you can use it in any computer with Powerpoint.
Let me know what you think by leaving a rating and a comment below.
More lessons and unit coming !!! Don't forget to follow my store for the update
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
It’s freezing cold outside but let’s warm up in class with some fun activities about winter! Winter is a nice occasion to teach about the weather, clothes, activities, in French. Your students will love this resource full of fun games and full of interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1-B2 level groups with a grammar point about the conditional. Note that some activities are more challenging to allow more differentiation in class. All the activities are corrected to save you time AND you get clear explanations at the bottom of each slide to guide your teaching!
Here’s what you’ll get in this 26-slide PPT:
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about Winter
A video about Winter with elements to identify
A matching up between pictures and words related to winter
a video to learn more about the topic with questions
A matching up with activities in winter
A domino game
A reading with questions and identification of verbs and tenses
A grammar point about the conditional
2 exercises to practise the use of the conditional
A survey
A cootie-catcher activity
A writine activity
A review of objectives
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
Students love celebrations and it makes a nice break in our teaching. However we can celebrate and learn, can't we? This resource is aimed at teachers who want to celebrate Halloween with their students while incorporating some vocabulary, grammar and revisions. Here's what you will get:
a powerpoint with 30 colourful and scary slides about Halloween and a 12-page booklet. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games to drill the vocabulary (disappearing ones,
- colouring activities (2)
- masks to prepare for halloween (3)
- a word search
- a matching up activity about the body part
- a battleship
- a slide about opinions and reasons
a booklet with 12 pages about Halloween to use with your students. It contains:
- a word search
- colouring activities to practise colours
- a skeleton labelling activity to recap about body parts
- a review about likes/dislikes and reasons
- a battleship
- a review of objectives
I suggest you use it along with the powerpoint Spanish Halloween for more efficiency!
here's a bundle that consists of a powerpoint (26 slides) and its activity booklet for students to teach about European countries and nationalities. It contains:
- a self target setting activity
- 1 quiz about food
- 1 quiz about symbols
- 1 matching up activity
- introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling
- explanation between nationalities and countries
- writing activities
- 1 reading activity
- 1 word search
- a review of objectives
Happy Mother's Day!
Here's a colourful powerpoint with 24 slides and its activity booklet to celebrate Mother's Day in French with your beginners. It contains:
- detailed objectives slide
- SMART setting slide
- an introduction with a reading
- a True-False activity
- a review/introduction about chores
- a matching up
- drilling activities with games (disappearing pictures, slapping the board in teams)
- introduction to the present tense for -er verbs and chores
- a speaking activity about how students help their mums around the house
- a noughts and crosses in pairs
- a reading about the origins of Mother's day with a True-false
- an introduction to vocabulary to celebrate with a guessing game for drilling
- a word search focusing on positive adjectives
- a writing
- a recipe
- a detailed review of objectives
Enjoy! I suggest you use the booklet that goes with it!
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 will help you teach young adults and adults about food items, meals food habits and count-non count words. 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 29 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 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 reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- A grammar point about count - non count nouns
- A practice about the grammar point
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A conversation with gaps and count/non-count/quantifiers nouns
- 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
I suggest you use the activity booklet that goes with it so that your students can keep a written track of their learning!
Have fun!
Bonjour!
Here’s a nice booklet to teach your students about the Subjunctive mood. It is aimed at Advanced students or a very good group of Intermediate. It contains 9 pages with:
- an explanation about the use of the subjunctive
- sentences where students need to find the verbs and translate
- an explanation about the formation of the subjunctive
- expressions that require the subjunctive
- a practice
Enjoy!
Teaching beginners in ESL can be great fun but what:
- when we don’t know where to start?
- when we have a mixed ability class?
- when our material isn’t updated or adapted?
You will find in this bundle enough material to teach your students for about 60/90 minutes for each lesson. Vocabulary in context, grammar with clear explanation, exercises and feedback to save you time and focus on the actual learning process.
It is flexible to help you teach ESL/EAL students beginners/elementary about vocabulary:
the alphabet, the numbers, countries, nationalities, food, likes-dislikes, opinions
and about grammar:
verb BE, simple present, subject pronouns, possessive adjectives, adverbs of frequency
The bundle contains 5 powerpoint presentations with about 30 slides each 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.
You’ll also find with each lesson an activity booklet for students so that they keep a written record of their learning.
The approach is communicative and follows a logical structure to reinforce students’ knowledge day after day. 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:
- Listening activities
- Videos with questions
- Matching up activities
- Filling gaps
- Classification activities
- Reading activities
- Games
- Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be found individually :
Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Unit 1 Lesson 3 Food, Likes and opinions
Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and adverbs of frequency
Unit 1 Lesson 5 Grammar recap for beginners
Any questions ? Email me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Bonjour,
Here is a powerpoint with 28 slides introducing health issues for beginners. It contains
- a detailed recap/introductory slide about what students should know and will learn
- a self-target setting slide,
- a starter with a monster to draw to revise about body parts
- an introduction to different health issues
- 2 grammar points (au, à la, aux) + être/avoir.
- a matching up exercise
- mimes
- games for drilling (quiz and slap the board)
- conversations in pairs (phone call to the doctor and at the doctor's)
- a plenary with sentences to unjumble.
In order to facilitate your student progress it also contain a nice colourful booklet with 8 pages to use alongside with the powerpoint.
Enjoy! And feel free to contact me if any question.
Here is a very colourful powerpoint with 44 slides to teach numbers from 1 to 31 with its student activities booklet.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- some practice activities that can help to pre-teach pets, animals or to review them
- some maths games and an extension for beginners to ask for age and say how old they are
- writing activities (word search, correct the mistake, matching up, solve the equation)
- a review of objectives
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 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
Teaching about the daily routine to beginners is often fun. How about having the vocabulary, grammar, exercises and games in just one resource? This PPT lesson along with its booklet will help you teach in French about the daily routine with grammar and fun games. You will also get corrections of the activities in the PPT to guide your teaching and save you time!
The powerpoint presentation contains 29 slides and the activity booklet 11. It is aimed at beginners/pre intermediate and it contains:
- a detailed objective slide
- a self- target setting slide
- a video as a starter with vocabulary to check
- a presentation of the vocabulary
- drilling games (What is missing?, miming activities, slapping the board)
- a matching up activity
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs and a practice
- an unjumble the sentences activity
- a writing
- a nought and crosses