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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.
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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
Hi everyone!
Here is a colourful presentation about Saint Patrick's day in Spanish. I made it quite flexible to allow you to work with children, teens or even adults! You just need to choose which activities are best suited for your audience! You have 12 activities in total! For an easier use you have notes at the bottom of each slide to guide you in your teaching.
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide
- a video about St Patrick in Spanish followed by questions
- a reading activity about St Patrick
- a True/False activity
- an introduction to new vocabulary through drilling
- a disappearing game to practise vocabulary
- a slap the board game activity
- a pair work- speaking activity
- a maze
- a group work with creation of booklet/powerpoint with another video
- a story about the Leprechauns- listening/drawing
- a drawing contest
- a word search as plenary
Student usually love it, especially the group work as they are free to use their imagination and research skills.
Lots of fun!
International Women’s Day is an important celebration worldwide and it is crucial to tell our students about their achievements. For that purpose here’s a presentation with 41 slides in French. It is aimed at intermediate or advanced students and it is interactive to allow a lot of discussion and debates about women’s rights and their impact on society. It contains:
1. a brainstorming with words related to the topic
2. a video that should allow some conversations between students
3. a thinking time about important women figures
4. a matching up with inventions/women
5. a song related as a tribute to women’s achievement with quotes from the song to think about
6. a filling gap activity
7. a quiz about women’s rights
8. a short grammar activity
9. a pair/group work to think about advantages/drawbacks of being a man/woman
10. a matching up with French laws in France about women
11. a reading activity with a filling gap
12. questions related to the text
13. two adds about women leading to a creative activity in groups
14. the story about Aung San Suu Kyi
15. Guessing games
16. Maze as a plenary.
Enjoy!
Fool's day is coming watch your back :-)
Here is a very colourful powerpoint with 18 slides for French beginners to teach about the Fool’s day.
It contains:
- a recap slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide for differentiation
- a reading activity about the origins of Fool’s day in France
- a true/false and its correction
- a matching up activity about vocabulary
- a wordsearch
- a speaking activity with opinions and justifications
- a reading activity
- a grammar point about the imperative
- a practice about the imperative
- fish to cut out
- an unjumbling sentences activity as plenary
- a review of objectives.
Enjoy!
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.
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Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
A powerpoint presentation with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages. It consists of:
- a detailed introduction to the objectives and a SMART target setting slide
- a review of basic family vocabulary as starter
- an introduction to the new vocabulary
- speaking activities in pairs and teams
- writing activities
- drawing activities
- 3 short grammar points about adjectives, to be, to have
- vocabulary about personality
- games (word search, puzzle, fun speaking activities, noughts and crosses etc.)
- a review of objectives
Hi everyone,
This powerpoint presentation that contains 15 slides with famous people with disabilities is aimed at raising students awareness about disabled people and how much people can do no matter what.
It was designed for teenagers and it worked really really well during Citizenship lessons and assemblies.
It also contains 2 challenges for students to be put in the shoes of disabled people.
I am sure you will like it!
Here’s a nice presentation with 7 slides to teach English - a basic/elementary level.
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 what they have learned in Unit 1 lesson 1 about countries/nationalities, the alphabet and basic questions
2. An interactive activity with a forum where students can read about another student telling about why English is important for him. Students need to recognize cognates.
3. A writing activity about why English is important for them
4. A review about the alphabet pronunciation and IPA with a text message to decipher
5. An introduction to numbers with a matching up
This is a starter/preview of Learn about number / Basic questions / Recognizing cognates resources / Filling a form
Here’s a nice freebie with 8 slides to teach students English for the first time.
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 writestorming about countries
3. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
4. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
5. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
The full lesson with the student booklet activity for student can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/esl-eal-self-introduction-countries-and-nationalities-11198859
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Here's a powerpoint with 6 slides to teach items of food for breakfast. It contains:
- a reading activity
- a dictionary contest
- a matching up activity
- a grammar point (du,de la, des) and a practice
Full version of this lesson with the student booklet can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/breakfast-food-in-french-no-prep-lesson-activities-le-petit-d-jeuner-en-fran-ais-11124783
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the new lesson to teach about food, nationalities and countries (review from lesson 1), likes and opinions. If you need to introduce likes, dislikes, opinions, this resource is a great way to do it interactively as it contains 3 videos and 16 activities in total that will help you teach in a fun and communicative way. This lesson is aimed mainly at teenagers or adults but it can be adapted easily for a younger audience. It contains:
1. a starter to review what has been done in lesson 2
2. an introduction to recap about countries and food items
3. a video about food in the world
4. a recap about what people eat according to the different countries
5. a recap about questions for nationalities and countries with celebrities guessing- including a video about a chef cooking
6. a grammar point about he/she -his/her followed by 3 practices
7.a video to recap about food but especially to introduce the adjectives of opinions
8. an activity with opinions to complete
9. 2 speaking activities about International food so that students can reuse the opinion words
10. reading activities about if people like cooking or not with a comprehension grid
11. a writing activity
12. a survey
13. a review of objectives
Enjoy! Check and follow my store for more resources!
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Beginners in English are always eager to communicate about their job, daily routine and personality. How about having an interactive lesson in context with 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 jobs and the daily routine. It also contains a recap about adjectives of personality and the simple present. 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 13 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 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:
- A recap about personality adjectives with letters to reorder and a matching up
- Videos with questions (to introduce the jobs and the verbs of the daily routine)
- Matching up (between jobs and personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs (ranking activity, survey, interview)
- Reading activity based on a forum and ads
- 1 grammar points followed by an exercise about jobs
- Writing activities
- Games (noughts and crosses and Bingo)
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 2 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
They are so cute! Which kid wouldn’t want to cuddle a lovely pet? How about teaching children about pets then?
This colorful resource with a 32-slide PowerPoint and its activity booklet with 11 pages is aimed at beginners in French.
It will help you to teach about pets, colors and opinions in just on resource. The 4 skills are embedded and kids will love the games that will make your lesson an interactive one!
It is aimed at children or teens but feel free to adapt it for adults.
It contains:
1. a self-target setting slide so that students are responsible for their own learning
2. a matching up activity about colors as a starter
3. a small text about pets with questions
4. an introduction about pets
5. games to practice the language (Hidden game, slapping the board game, unscrambling words)
6. a grammar point about feminine and masculine words
7. adjectives about pets (matching up, definition about pets/animals)
8. speaking activities (survey, pair work)
9. a reading task
10. a writing task
Enjoy !!!
February being the International month for being safer online, it’s time to get them aware about the threat and the danger of being online. A lot of our students don’t really know the risks and the damages social online can get them into, we hear too many stories about suicide because of embarrassing pictures or comments posted online and we should try to educate them to get a better understanding of this amazing yet dangerous tool known as the Internet.
Here's a presentation to get your students safe online. I am sure this resource will be useful to you for the Safer Internet Day.
It contains 24 slides with
1. an introduction about the use of digital media
2. the benefits of the new technologies
3. the dangers involved in the use of technologies
4. a video about cyberbullying
5. a reflection about cyberbullying vs Freedom of Speech
6. tips to use the Internet safely
7. a mini quiz about several situations and what students would do in these situations.
8. 4 possible challenges to engage your students actively to promote a safe use if the Internet
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If you are looking for more about bullying lesson and exercice can check this resource :
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/anti-bullying-resource-stop-bullying-at-school-11122728
Here's a powerpoint with 31 colourful slides and its booklet with 8 pages about the Chinese New Year in French. It can be used for beginners and intermediate learners. It consists of:
- a self-target setting slide
- introduction to facts about customs and traditions for the Chinese New Year
- a quiz with a True/False
- an introduction to basic vocabulary about zodiacal signs with a game
- information about each zodiacal sign to practise adjectives
- a grammar point about adjectives (From easy to more complex explanation)
- a practice
- a speaking in pairs
- colouring activity with Chinese mask
- a review of objectives
Hi everyone!
Here is a colourful presentation about Saint Patrick's day in French. I made it quite flexible to allow you to work with children, teens or even adults! You just need to choose which activities are best suited for your audience! You have 16 activities in total! It contains the powerpoint with 38 slides and the activity booklet with 11 pages for students.
For an easier use you have notes at the bottom of each slide of the powerpoint to guide you in your teaching.
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide
- a video about St Patrick in French followed by questions questions
- a reading activity about St Patrick
- a True/False activity
- an introduction to new vocabulary through drilling
- a disappearing game to practise vocabulary
- a slap the board game activity
- a pair work- speaking activity
- a maze
- a writing activity
- a group work with creation of booklet/powerpoint with another video
- a story about the Leprechauns- listening/writing skills
- a drawing contest
- a word search as plenary
Student usually love it, especially the group work as they are free to use their imagination and research skills.
Lots of fun!
When we engage in a conversation with people for the first time one of the first questions are: What do you do? Where do you work? So teaching about jobs and workplaces has to come early in our teaching. 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 workplaces and the use of nouns (singular/plural) with articles –the emphasis being on the structure: She/He is A…., She/He works IN…
It also contains a recap about jobs and the daily routine. 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 11 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 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:
- A recap about jobs and daily routine with a reading with definitions, a writing activity and a song.
- matching up (about jobs and workplaces)
- Filling gaps
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Another song to develop students’ listening skills about jobs and the present tense
- A grammar point followed by exercises and correction (singular/plural nouns, a/an, irregular plural forms)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 3 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 below :
Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
Unit 2 Lesson 2 Physical description and verb to have
Unit 2 Lesson 3 Job and daily routine
Need to teach the future tense in French to your students pre-intermediate? Not quite sure what to do? In this flexible resource you will find a step-by-step powerpoint (with guiding notes at the bottom of each slide) with a relevant context for the lesson, a clearly explained grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
You will also get the handout so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
The resource contains:
1. A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson
2. A starter with a Q/A in pairs
3. A video with answers to be answered by students
4. An introduction to the difference between the near future and simple future
5. Introduction to irregular verbs
6. Exercises (filling gaps-writing-speaking-drawing on the handout)
7. A review of objectives
Have fun telling about the future!
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Need more grammar lesson in french check out :
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
Here a presentation about bullying. It is aimed at raising students awareness about the issue and get them ideas on how to fight it. I would suggest you use it during an assembly. The powerpoint contains 23 slides and the handout 5 pages
1. Think pair share activity about what makes them unique
2. Reflection activity about what the world would be like if we were all the same
3. Introduction to what bullying is
4. Bullying situations in pictures
5. True false activity about bullying figures
6. Process in bullying (Who is involved)
7. Consequences
8. Short video to illustrate the consequences with questions
9. Video clip about song “Hall of Fame” The Script to illustrate bullying and silent witnessing
10. Video about how to get help all together
11. Strategies to help the victim, the witness and to make bullies react
12. Conclusion and references
French where we live
Here is a colourful powerpoint with 26 slides and its pdf activity booklet with 8 pages to introduce places (seaside, countryside etc.), likes and dislikes + reasons, where the house is located (next to/far from) + some places in town.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a starter with texts and a true/false
- introductory slides for new vocabulary
- texts to be understood from gist to details
- a classification of opinions and reasons
- matching up exercises etc.
- a unjumble the sentences activity
- writing activities
- speaking activities in pairs
- a grammar point about -er verbs at the present tense
- a review of objectives
Here’s powerpoint with 33 slides and its booklet with 12 pages to teach about the New Year
is celebrated around the world. It is aimed at ESL students but it is suitable for any subjects to bring some cultural awareness in the classroom. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video as a starter
- an introduction to the different customs and traditions around the world for New Year (In Europe, the USA, Japan, in South America, for Jewish people, for Hindu people etc.)
- a quiz with answers and 2 rounds
- a reading with filling gaps
- a resolutions writing activity
- a word search
- an activity with letters to unscramble as plenary
Happy New Year