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!

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.

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.

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

Who was Richard III? Where and how was he found? Where should he be reburied?

The students decide which adjectives/phrases describe the witches and which describe Lady Macbeth. Good for EAL students as they have to decide whether the third person agreement is needed.

This is a summary for mainstream teachers with guidelines to make sure that EAL students are included in the lesson.

A reading comprehension, with questions and language activities. Jack and Kelsey brave the journey only to find that the school is closed.

Survivors are interviewed and asked, 'What were you doing when the ship hit the iceberg?&'

This is a short narrative in the past simple, with language exercises: true or false, cloze, match up and comprehension questions. It will be useful for years 5, 6, 7 and EAL pupils. My thanks to Ravensburger puzzles for permission to use this great picture. Isn't Flame a beaut?

A reading passage with exercises.The language focus is the past simple tense. I got the template from Baiba, a member of the greatest EAL site in the world: (erm, after this one, of course!) eslprintables

This is a list of ten great ESL websites with descriptions of what they offer.

56 slides - a compilation of more or less ready-to-go fun activities. Besides ideas, I have included some exercises that you can use or adapt, also website addresses where you can access materials. I enjoyed putting this together and I hope it will be useful.

This is a compilation of activities, strategies and methods of differentiation to include EAL students in mainstream English.

A short introduction to Botany Bay, with some language exercises.

Using visuals is a good thing! Here is an infographic on how to support EAL students within the mainstream classroom. Fully editable.

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.

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.

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.