22 short stories, 42 slides. Each can be storyboarded and adapted to hot seat activities. All on one file; I've put 6 so you can preview. Exercises and activities are provided for each story. Some of the stories are items adapted from the news.

Some memory exercises for pair work, a match-up activity and an exercise on personality adjectives. This powerpoint will hopefully be motivational at the start of the new year!

A wonderful picture by the artist Trevor Mitchell, with various exercises on the present continuous tense. When I contacted the artist for permission to use his picture, I found that he lives just a few streets away from me!

This is an updated version of my 2016 powerpoint, which was very popular. There are lots of activities to keep them busy and get them thinking. It would be nice to get a few reviews on this one.

This is an update version of my very successful previous ones. There are lots of activities to provoke thought and plenty of visuals to promote discussion. Images fly in to assist comprehension .

Fourteen slides with activities to get students thinking about New Year's resolutions. This is an updated version of one I uploaded in 2015.

There are forty sentences here, with 90 mistakes to find and correct. A full key is provided. This will make a good starting point for some SPAG activities, or provide a nice little filler activity. ** Note**: it looks a bit strange on the preview, but it’s fine when downloaded.

September 26th - it's European Day of Languages. Gap fill and match up activities, focusing on the spellings of the languages and matching them to the countries.

Well, it is what it is. A ws to practise the past simple tense for EAL students. Useful as a homework sheet? All the verbs needed are in the blue column and they can be used more than once. Cut the column off for more advanced students.

36 micro readings. On sheet one, they put the verb in the right place. On pages 2 and 3, they put the stem into the past simple and then put in the right place. After that, look, cover, write and check. You can just leave them with the picture prompts for this. For EAL students.

35 slides, with hints, activities and strategies for supporting EAL students. Also included are activities for staff training. Please note I have included some strategy mats that I've uploaded previously.

20 slides, each with one or 2 images. There are DARTs activities - for differentiation - with every slide and tasks based on ideas linked to the images. The images are from Clker.com, unless otherwise stated.

I made this for my Yr 7 Nurture group, for fun literacy starters. There are 27 slides, comprising 25 activities. No photocopying necessary - all activities can be done from the board. There is a variety of lexical activities: anagrams; match-ups; gap fills; error correction; find the hidden words; sentence formation; supply the adjectives and adverbs; replace the missing vowels and more. I have used a frame from fppt.com.

87 slides each containing a language or literacy activity for science. There are match-up activities at word and sentence level, punctuation and paraphrase exercises as well as mini-biographies of famous scientists. Language activities include making comparisons and the passive voice in science. The topics, while science-based, are of general interest. These make great starter activities.

This makes a good starter or filler activity. The first slide explains the activity and the second models it. Then, give each group a picture and ask them to mind map it. For extension, have them compare any two pictures.

Activities which will suit literacy for biology, or general literacy. Or for when you need a few minutes... Brain gym, match-up, true or false, design, discussion, look and remember... I have sourced some of the basics from the net and done exercises around them. Hope it will be useful. I think this will suit years 5,6, 7.

There is a huge amount of detailed stuff out there about this day. Here, I have put together some interactive slides mainly about the languages themselves. Should suit years 5,6,7... Hope it's useful, colleagues!

30 slides. They include: choose the right connective/paraphrase/spellings/making inferences/adding the punctuation etc. Will suit years 5,6,7,8. Please note that I have adapted some slides from my ppt 'Literacy for Science'.

Activities around bullying, including a warmer, 'scenario' cards for students to comment on or act out; comment cards for pair work and role play, with pyramid of importance activity; match-up activity on types of bullying and on what makes a bully; suggestions for dealing with bullying tick lists and a case history with activities. The activities are suitable for pair and group work. Before approaching each of these activities, you can ask students to come up with their own ideas. I did this with year 7, on a 'conflict resolution' day.

This is a brain gym type activity. The students are given a description and they must guess the word, from the clue. There are 4 letters, each with 8 clues per slide. The first section is easy and the second section, going through the alphabet again, has harder clues. My students love these and they love to make their own versions. This can be done as a whole class activity, as pair work, or as a competition, with time limits. Previously, I uploaded worksheets, with the letters A and B. They were popular, so now I have completed the set.