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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.
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
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 free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found here :
Need more questions ? check the full version here
Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.
Here’s a lesson starter about numbers 1-30 with 6 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up activity
- a wordsearch
- sentences to correct
- equations to solve in letters
- a crisscross puzzle
- a review of objectives
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/numbers-1-to-31-in-french-lesson--booklet-activity-no-prep--les-nombres-1--31-en-fran-ais-11091367
Here is a powerpoint with 6 colourful slides about describing the house for beginners. It contains
- a wordsearch as a second starter which I also use as a dictionary contest
- 2 reading activities
- a writing activity
- a plenary with a criss cross puzzle
Full lesson with student booklet can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-resource-describe-your-house-lesson-exercise-decrire-sa-maison-en-francais-no-prep-11131174
About me French Family description / La famille en français
Here's a powerpoint with 6 slides
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide for differentiation
- a presentation of members of the family
- a grammar point about mon, ma, mes /practice
- a family tree presentation for a writing activity
Full version with student booklet can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/about-me-describe-your-family-in-french-no-prep-la-famille-en-fran-ais-le-on-activit-e-11120756
Here’s a lesson starter about physical description with 7 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up activity
- a vocabulary slide
- colouring and writing activities
- a writing and drawing activity
- a review of objectives
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/french-physical-character-description-lesson-booklet-no-prep-la-description-physique-personalit-11091414
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
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
Here’s a preview 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 6 slides with
1. Think pair share activity about what makes your students unique
2. Introduction to bullying
3. True false activity about bullying figures
4. Conclusion
Full version can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/anti-bullying-assembly-stop-bullying-at-school-11122728
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
Here’s a lesson starter about days, months and seasons with 6 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up about seasons
- a wordsearch about months
- a matching up about days
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/days-month-seasons-in-french-lesson--activity-no-prep--jours-mois-saisons-en-fran-ais-11088187
What time is it in french / Quelle heure est-il en francais ?
What time is it in french / Quelle heure est-il en francais ?
Here is a colourful 6 slide powerpoint to be used as lesson starter
It contains :
- a reading activity about the daily routine
- a bingo to revise numbers
- an introduction to tell the time with clocks ( past/to -quarter/half- midday/midnight)
- writing activity with clocks
A colourful powerpoint presentation with 6 slides to introduce the vocabulary about chores. It contains
- a reading activity as a starter
- a matching up
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs, ER verbs, IR verbs and FAIRE at the present tense
- a review of objectives
Here’s a freebie about classroom instructions with 6 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up with pictures and instructions
- a drawing activity
- a noughts and crosses
- a review of objectives
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
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
French where we live
Here is a colourful powerpoint with 6 slides to introduce places (seaside, countryside etc.), likes and dislikes + reasons
It contains
- a starter with texts and a true/false
- a classification of opinions and reasons
- matching up exercises etc.
- a grammar point about -er verbs at the present tense and a practice
Full Version of the lesson with student booklet can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/where-i-live-french-description-lesson-exercises-description-en-francais-ou-habites-tu-11131139
Looking for a nice starter for Black History Month?
Here is a powerpoint with 7 colourful slides for a lesson to engage your students on the topic. It contains:
- introduction to the topic with Stevie Wonder’s song “Happy Birthday” with a segregation activity
- words to be related to the topic
- a reflection slide about famous black people who had an impact on the History
- a short video focusing on the Civil right movement
- a quiz
- a true/false activity
Full version with student exercices can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/black-history-month-celebration-resources-student-activities-11138462
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!
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. If you need to teach the imperfect tense but you are not quite sure where to start, this flexible resource will help you.
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 and progressive grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
This resource is aimed at intermediate students but you can easily adapt it for pre-intermediate or advanced students.
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 story to reorder and verbs to identify
3. An explanation about the different uses of the imperfect tense with clear examples
4. An explanation about the formation of the imperfect
5. Introduction to the verb ÊTRE, -CER verbs, GER verbs
6. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, word search, sentences to complete, sentences to change from singular to plural form)
7. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the imperfect tense!
Check my store for more for resources about grammar and tenses here:
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Future lesson and exercices No Prep