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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
ESL Unit1 Lesson 2
Learn about number / Basic questions / Recognizing cognates / Filling a form
Here’s a nice presentation with 40 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English - a basic/elementary level. The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
So if you need to teach your students about numbers up to 10, answering basic personal questions, learning about the verb “BE” and have them to fill in a form, here you are! This interactive lesson will help you developed these skills. All 4 skills are also embedded.
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 mother tongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about what they have learned in Unit 1 lesson 1 the alphabet and basic questions
2. An interactive activity with a forum where students can read about other students telling about why English is important for them. 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
6. 3 short listening activities with filling gaps
7. A reading/writing activity to fill in a form
8. Questions to reorder
9. Questions and answers to match up
10. A grammar point about word order for questions and answers
11. A second grammar point about the verb BE
12. A form to fill for themselves
13. Questions to ask their partner to practice their questions/answers
14. Review of objectives
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
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Hi everyone,
Teaching tenses and especially the present perfect in French can be difficult but here’s a resource that should help you teach the present perfect tense in a fun and dynamic way. This lesson is aimed at children and teenagers but it can be adapted for the needs of adults. It contains a powerpoint with 17 slides and an activity booklet with 5 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning. It contains 11 activities in total.
1. As an introduction to the lesson students are invited to set themselves a target so that they own their learning (3 targets are offered as part of differentiation)
2. The lesson starts with a reading activity where students need to identify the verbs and make suggestions about the use and formation of the verbs. It is followed by a correction.
3. The teacher introduces the utilization of the present perfect tense
4. The teacher introduces the formation of the tense according to the three groups but also the formation with the use of être/avoir and the agreements
5. Focus on the negative form with all three groups
6. Students match up the beginning and end of sentences to check the understanding of the structure
7. Introduction to most irregular verbs
8. 3 progressive exercises
9. a writing activity
10. jeopardy in teams. Students need to say complete sentences according to the sentences they see on the board.
11. Review of objectives.
Have fun and don’t forget the booklet so that students can keep a written track of their learning!
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
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Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Hi everyone,
Teaching grammar is not always easy but here’s a resource that should help you teach the the present simple in a fun and dynamic way. This lesson is aimed at children and teenagers but it can be adapted for the needs of adults. It contains a powerpoint with 16 slides and an activity booklet with 3 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning. It contains 11 activities in total.
1. As an introduction to the lesson students are invited to set themselves a target so that they own their learning (3 targets are offered as part of differentiation)
2. The lesson starts with a reading activity where students need to identify the verbs and make suggestions about the use and formation of the verbs. It is followed by a correction.
3. The teacher introduces the utilization of the present forms
4. The teacher introduces the formation of the present tense according to the three groups but also the formation of être/avoir
5. Focus on the negative form with all three groups
6. Students to match up the beginning and end of sentences to check the understanding of the structure
7. Introduction to most irregular verbs with the 1st person singular
8. 3 progressive writing exercises
9. students write about their routine
10. jeopardy in teams. Students need to say complete sentences according to the sentences they see on the board.
11. Review of objectives.
Have fun and don’t forget the booklet so that students can keep a written track of their learning!
Easter is on its way! Can’t wait for a chocolate hunt, right?
In the meantime I suggest you this resource to develop your students’ knowledge about Easter and other celebrations in. This lesson will also give you the opportunity to practice vocabulary about Easter and grammar about the simple present tense in French
It gives an explanation as to why we celebrate Easter and other celebrations around it (Carnival, Fat Tuesday… ).
The presentation is made of 37 colourful slides and the activity booklet contains 14 pages to make your lesson more interactive and enjoyable.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about Easter
- reading activity about the different celebrations(how we celebrate them and why with some pictures to help for the understanding.)
- a True/False activity,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling
- a noughts and crosses to be played in pairs
- an introduction to the present tense (ER, IR, RE) and a practice
- a word search
- unscrambling activity
- colouring activities for the younger ones
- a pair work speaking activity with opinions
- a puzzle with letters to unscramble
It is quite flexible and will allow you to teach from pre-intermediate to intermediate levels with kids, teens or adults.
So you just need to choose what will best suit your group.
Hi everyone,
Teaching tenses and especially the present perfect in French can be difficult but here’s a resource that should help you teach the present perfect tense in a fun and dynamic way. This lesson is aimed at children and teenagers but it can be adapted for the needs of adults. It contains a powerpoint with 17 slides and an activity booklet with 5 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning. It contains 11 activities in total.
1. As an introduction to the lesson students are invited to set themselves a target so that they own their learning (3 targets are offered as part of differentiation)
2. The lesson starts with a reading activity where students need to identify the verbs and make suggestions about the use and formation of the verbs. It is followed by a correction.
3. The teacher introduces the utilization of the present perfect tense
4. The teacher introduces the formation of the tense according to the three groups but also the formation with the use of être/avoir and the agreements
5. Focus on the negative form with all three groups
6. Students match up the beginning and end of sentences to check the understanding of the structure
7. Introduction to most irregular verbs
8. 3 progressive exercises
9. a writing activity
10. jeopardy in teams. Students need to say complete sentences according to the sentences they see on the board.
11. Review of objectives.
Have fun and don’t forget the booklet so that students can keep a written track of their learning!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary to beginners in ESL is not always easy. By the time we complete a Unit, many students will have forgotten important vocabulary and grammar points! So consolidation of the knowledge is absolutely vital!
How about having all the grammar and vocabulary in one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply clicking on the buttons in the content page!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- family
- personality
- physical description
- jobs
- workplaces
- daily routine
Grammar:
- Nouns (a, an and plural)
- Possessive’s
- To HAVE/to BE
- Adjectives
Each slide of the 34-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar points contains between 2 and 5 different types of exercises to suit your learners’ abilities (filling-gaps, matching-up, choosing the right option, writing activity, answering questions or reordering activity) and allow them to work at their own pace. All the exercises are corrected to save you time.
You will also get the handout with 14 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Check other lesson of this Unit :
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
Unit 2 Lesson 4 Job and workplace
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 is a colourful 48 slides powerpoint and its booklet of 7 pages about telling the time for beginners. It contains
- a detailed objective slide
- a self-target setting slide where students can chose what target they want to reach
- revision games about numbers from 1 to 25
- an introduction to tell the time with clocks ( past/to -quarter/half- midday/midnight)
- writing activities
- revision of vocabulary about the routine (games,matching up, speaking activities)
- a battleship in pairs
- a writing
- a review of objectives
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!
A Powerpoint presentation with 15 pages underlining the importance of learning languages. To be used at the beginning of the year to highlight why it is important to have other languages rather than just English. It contains
- a starter with 3 questions (True or Myth) about languages and the correction
- an introduction with different celebrities able to speak other languages.
- information about where French, Spanish and German are spoken and some of the reasons why it is vital to have more than English as a language.
- three short videos (1 where French is spoken, 2 a touristic video about Germany, 3 a young polyglot girl )
- a reflexive slide where students chose 2 reasons why learning a language is vital.
Let's Celebrate Earth day in French
Here's a powerpoint with 20 slides and a student booklet with 8 pages to teach about the environment and its protection. It was made for Earth Day but it can be used anytime. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide with detailed objectives
- videos about Earth day as a starter
- an introduction to vocabulary through a matching up
- texts about the environment, pollution and solutions
- debating activities with arguments to sort out
- vocabulary for debates (opinions and disagreement)
- videos about solutions to protect the environment with a conversation to reorder and a sketch to do
- a word search as plenary
- a detailed review of objectives.
Enjoy!
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.
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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 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 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.
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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Shopping in a market is a great topic to teach students about different topics: food items, prices, quantities, engaging in conversations are just some examples of what you will find in this resource.
Your students will love this resource full of fun games, videos and interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1 level groups (pre-intermediate) but it can be adapted to a wider audience. 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 progression!
⭐ Here’s what you’ll get in this 28-slide PPT: ⭐
A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson then…
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about summer
A video about a market in the south of France with elements to identify and questions
A matching up between pictures and words related to shopping in markets
a shopping list to complete with food items and then quantities
An activity to put food items under categories
A reading activity with a conversation at the market to re-organize
A grammar point about the imperative with exercises
A writing-speaking activity in pairs
A battleships activity in pairs
A fortune teller game as a plenary
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
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