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
Hi everyone!
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Ready to spread love and vocabulary in Spanish?
So, here is a colorful powerpoint with 36 slides about Valentine's day in Spanish and its activity booklet with 11 pages to make Valentine’s day a memorable day for your students.
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!
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide,
-a commercial about Valentine to trigger their speaking skills
- a video that should be played without the sound for students to predict the story
- slides explaining the story followed by a true false exercise
- a presentation of vocabulary
- 3 fun memorizing games
- a word search
- a maze
- a dialogue to practise with a review about likes and dislikes + opinions
- a colouring activity to review colours
- an activity to have students to write a Valentine's card
- a song with filling gaps.
- a review of objectives
I hope you will like it as much as my students did!
Happy Valentine! Use the activity booklet for more efficiency!
The season for Back-to-School is a such an exciting time! It can be quite stressful too! So many things to do before greeting our students, so many resources and displays to prepare! Are you ready for Back-to-School? Is your class ready to welcome your students? Do you have a set of classroom displays and certificates to reward your students?
This pack of resources will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1 with your class and with... Pokemon! All the kids are getting nuts with Pokemon Go. They might not be able to hunt them in your class but at least they will be able to see them around constantly with this pack of resources!
This bundle has been designed for primary school students but it can also be used for your young secondary students.
You will find in this pack:
- 5 ready-to-print certificates to reward your students’ work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)
- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste
- 8 Reward cards to praise your students
- 1 Student contract rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
Don't forget to check my store for more resources !
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!
French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain to our students how the whole political system works. You will find in this resource all the tools you need to help your students understand the role of the President. They will also learn about the voting system and the different official candidates for 2017. They will get an overview of the programs of the 5 main candidates and will get to grasps with what a political party is and the influence of the media on the political elections.
Here is what you will get in this resources:
a 20-slide PPT with:
- a brainstorming as starter
- an overview of the way the political system works with a graph with explanations about the roles of the President, Prime Minister, National Assembly, Senate etc.
- a presentation of the former Presidents with a matching up
- explanations about the advantages of becoming a president
- explanations about the main concerns for French people
- an introduction to the main candidates with a reading and matching up
- a critical explanation about how the media can shape/influence politics
- an explanation about what the Left Wing/Right Wing is
- a review of objectives in pairs
*updated 29/03/17*
Added Student Booklet
If you bought it before the update don't forget to get your booklet (it's free for you)
Have fun!
Teaching Black History Month? Not quite sure where to start?
Here is a powerpoint with 40 colourful slides and its booklet with 8 pages that can be used for an assembly or for a lesson to teach students creatively about Black History Month.
This lesson is full of songs, challenges and videos to bring awareness to your students about Black History Month and important figures in the Civil Right movement.
It contains:
- 1. a starter with a song "Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder and a discrimination activity
- 2. introduction to the topic with Black History month and related words
- 3. a song "Buffalo Soldier"
- 4. videos to raise awareness about Black History
- 5. a quiz
- 6. a true false activity
- 7. Reflection activity about famous Black People who have had an impact on the History
- 8. Rosa Parks' story and MLK’s story
- 9. a timeline activity with important events about History
- 10. guess games with songs by famous artists
- 11. challenges in groups (a slam song to create, posters, a big quiz involving the community, a play)
- 12. “I have a dream activity” where students reflect on their dreams and share them
- 13. Conclusion with a video and plenary to recap
Enjoy and Happy Black History Month!
Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides and its activity booklet with 8 pages to teach about Thanksgiving.
It can be used either at the beginning of the month to allow students to prepare Thanksgiving activities or right before the 4th Thursday of the month.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video explaining the Pilgrims' story
- a recap to make sure students have understood the video.
- a multiple choice quiz
- a true-false exercise
- a word search
- a maze
- a filling gap exercise
- a recipe
- a thinking time activity to make students aware that we need to be grateful for what we have
- slides inviting students to reflect on themselves
- a plenary that invites them to prepare activities around Thanksgiving.
Here's a powerpoint with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages to teach items of food for breakfast. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video with breakfasts around the world
- a reading activity
- a dictionary contest
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- drilling games (hidden picture)
- a grammar point (du,de la, des) and a practice
- a grammar point about prendre/boire and a practice
- revisions about opinions
- reading activities
- a writing activity
- a word search as plenary
- a review of objectives
Here is a powerpoint with 34 colourful slides and its activity booklet with 6 pages about describing the house for beginners. It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a short video to get your students started
- a wordsearch as a second starter which I also use as a dictionary contest
- an introduction to new vocabulary
- a quiz
- a where is waldo game
- a grammar point about the feminine and masculine words
- a reading activity
- a matching up activity with feminine masculine words
- a writing activity
- a plenary
- a review of objectives.
Here is a very colorful powerpoint with 27 slides and its booklet with 8 pages about Christmas for ESL beginners.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- 1 video -as a starter to introduce some vocabulary
- information about Christmas
- 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!
Happy Saint Paddy’s
Saint Patrick’s day is always a nice celebration and a great opportunity for us as ESL teachers to teach some vocabulary and culture in a fun way. How about having interactive activities with songs, videos, speaking and reading activities in one resource? This is what you will get with this resource:
A PPT with 36 slides and an activity booklet with 13 pages full of activities and games to engage your students.
It contains:
a self-target setting slide
questions based on a video
a reading activity
a true/false activity
introduction to the vocabulary and a drilling game
a speaking activity with likes and dislikes
a maze
colouring activities
a writing activity
a group project
a Rhyming guessing game
2 songs for teenagers and/or adults
a word search
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Want to travel with your students? Here's a nice powerpoint with 26 slides and activity booklet with 9 pages about countries in the world with a specific focus on French speaking countries. It contains:
- a detailed recap of what students should know and an overview of what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about breakfast around the world where students identify the food
- a matching up between food and countries
- a quiz about European countries
- a world map puzzle to reorder in groups
- a grammar point about au, aux, en
- a practice
- a speaking practice filling gap information
- videos about la Francophonie with a True-false activity
- reading about French speaking countries and questions
- review about numbers and introduction to the Euros
- a conversation to reorder at the travel agent's
- a plenary with a word search
Enjoy
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
Ready to be back to school?
If you are still not sure where to start, here's a pack of resources that will help you get ready for the beginning of the new school year.
You will get 5 resources:
1. 30 ice breakers for the beginning and rest of the year
2. a student activity booklet to be used during the whole year
3. your teacher planner with labels for binders, notes, parents contacts and much more!
4. Assembly for day 1
5. Certificates and classroom rule displays
1. Included in this resource are 30 fun icebreakers to for the beginning of the year, but also team building activities to bring collaborative work into your class. You can use them with any topic/subject. They are also highly adaptable for all levels and age groups.
‘30 Icebreakers for Back to School’ is a booklet compiling activities to break the ice with your students when Back to School but also to use during the whole year to enhance cooperation and group work.
These 30 icebreakers are simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities for the First Week:
- 2 truths 1 lie
- Guess Who
- The chatterbox
- The wishes bottle
- The web
- The personality bingo and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity
·List of any material necessary
2. Back to school is just around the corner!
This pack of planners will let you have fun and allow you to personalize your organization for the year with a wide variety of covers for binders, personal data sheets, parents contact sheets, labels, weekly planning sheets and much more!
Get started with organization with this planner to get everything ready!
This pack of planners will keep you on top of your teaching!
In this pack you will get:
- 6 different cover options (If you want a more personalized one, just contact me with your own pictures ready!)
- 6 Personal data pages
- 6 Parents contact pages
- 6 Notes pages (to record meeting information, add reminders…)
- 6 Binder labels X 4 formats
- 6 Overview for weekly planning options
- Weekly planning pages
- 1 Grading sheet
3. This resource contains LOTS of activities to break the ice with your students. These ice breakers will let you know about their interests, their learning styles and it will also help them get around the school if the buildings are new to them! It is a good way to start to reassure your students while learning about who they are.
This 17-page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.
The activities are very simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range. You can use this booklet anytime during the year to reinforce/introduce some citizenship or life-long skills topics.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities from the booklet:
- The Facebook profile filling gap to get to know them
- The personal questionnaire to know about their family, favorite subjects, interests…
- The learning styles questionnaire so that you can quickly adapt your teaching to their needs
- The “What to do” activity
- The target setting activity to be used every semester
- The reading strategies activities…and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·all the activities you need to settle down your class for the first few weeks
·thought-provocative material to develop your students’ thinking skills and collaborative work
4. Assembly day 1
You will find with this 29-slide powerpoint a nice way to break the ice with your students while telling them about the rules of your school.
This visually appealing powerpoint is really simple to use and requires NO or very little PREP. It has been designed for primary/Y7 secondary students.
It promotes a nice learning environment with the opportunity for students to speak to one another while providing some key principles about the way they should work, respect and behave to build a nice learning community
Example of activities:
- Pair speaking activities (ice breakers, reflection time)
- Reflection time about Hard-work, Respect and Pride
- Reflection about what to wear and the use of cell phones and technology
- Explanation about rules and why these rules are important to work, share and learn together
- a video to boost their self-esteem and reassure them
- a reflection time about what can be positive when coming back to school/what can be more difficult with post-it notes
- a review of the content of the presentation
5. Certificates and classroom rules displays
This pack of resources will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1. This bundle has been designed for primary school students but it can also be used for your young secondary students.
You will find in this pack:
- 5 ready-to-print certificates to reward your students’ work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)
- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste
- 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides + its activity booklet of 7 pages about colours and the rules for the feminine adjectives for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slides
- an introduction to the vocabulary though pictures about common objects and pets, opinions about colours
- drilling activities through games (quiz)
- a grammar point about wod ode with ajectives and focus on adjective agreement
- writing and reading activities in the booklet
- speaking activities
- a review of objectives
Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 29 slides and its activity booklet designed for beginners about school objects. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with pictures to label
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling (disappearing game, slapping the board, hidden item etc.)
- 2 grammar points (fem, masc, plural forms- J'ai, je n'ai pas + practice)
- a noughts and crosses
- a word search
- a review of objectives
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.
Is there anything nicer than children and pets? Well, how about teaching them vocabulary about pets then? Here’s a freebie you’ll find useful to teach beginners in French about pets with 7 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide where students can decide what they are going to learn
- a matching up activity about colours
- a reading about pets with questions
- an unscramble the letters activity to develop reading skills
- a matching up activity
- a review of objectives
Need more than a starter lesson ? Get the full lesson here
Hi everyone,
As part of the elementary ESL series, here's the freebie of the new lesson about food, nationalities and countries (review from lesson 1), likes and opinions.
If you need to introduce likes, dislikes, opinions, this new lesson 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.
This freebie contains 7 slides with :
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
6. a grammar point about he/she
This is a starter/preview of
Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
Here’s a freebie about why learning a foreign language with 6 slides. It contains:
- an objective slide
- a matching up activity
- a true/myth activity with answers
- a celebrity slide with celebrities speaking many languages
- reasons why learning an MFL is important
Full version can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/why-learn-foreign-language-assembly-11113855