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!
Hi everyone!
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Ready to spread love and vocabulary in French?
So, here is a colourful powerpoint with 37 slides about Valentine's day in French and its activity booklet 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 video about Valentine -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 with audio
- 3 fun memorising 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 by Edith Piaf with filling gaps.
- a song by Anais to open up the discussion
I hope you will like it as much as my students did!
Happy Valentine! Use the activity booklet for more efficiency!
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
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
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 a week (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:
Food (food, meals, ordering food, complaining about food, cooking verbs, opinions)
and about grammar:
countable/non countable nouns, How much/How many, quantifiers (a few, a little, some, any), imperative forms, adjectives and adverbs
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. Each activity comes with a correction to save your time!
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
- Speaking activities (surveys, games…)
- Reading activities (with questions, vocabulary focus…)
- Games
- Grammar points in context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be bought individually in my shop.
Any questions
Have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
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 teenagers and adults about the main grammatical points for beginners. You can select which point you want to consolidate by simply the content page or just follow the order of the lesson
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
Food and meals
Cooking verbs
Kitchen utensils
Grammar:
Countable/non-countable nouns
How much/How many
Some, any, a few, a little
Adjectives and adverbs
Each slide of the 27-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. You will find a wide range of activities (filling-gaps, matching-up, answering questions, reordering activity, labelling, reading, word search…) 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 10 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 5 Lesson 1 : learn about shopping list and food habit
Unit 5 Lesson 2 : learn about restaurant ordering and how much/how many
Unit 5 Lesson 3 : learn about Recipes and imperative form
Unit 5 Lesson 4 : learn about food around the world and have you ever tried…
Food is always an enjoyable topic to teach. Now how can we ensure we engage, challenge and motivate all our students? Which activities would best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the needs of your students while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about food they like and what they eat/drink for breakfast. This resource is also a good way to open up their minds about different types of food depending on different cultures in the world
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 31 slides designed for pre/intermediate students about breakfast items, opinions and the preterit. You’ll also get an activity booklet with 10 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The pack contains:
- a self target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video as a starter to talk about breakfast and opinions
- a dictionary challenge about different type of food
- a second video about breakfast around the world
- introduction to opinions and justifications about food
- introduction to breakfast items
- matching up activity reading
- further reading with frequency adverbs
- speaking activity
- introduction to the verb gustar followed by a practice
- introduction to the preterite use
- writing
- review of objectives
Enjoy! Have fun teaching about food in Spanish!
Teaching about school in Spanish? Not quite sure what activities to do with your pre-intermediate class?
This resource will give you a hand in delivering a motivating and challenging lesson about school. The focus is on developing 4 skills equally. So you will find in this resource the opportunity to practice speaking, listening –through a video, reading and writing activities.
Vocabulary and grammar are clearly embedded in the various activity and the wide range of activities should suit all your students’ learning styles.
Here's what you’ll get in this pack: a nice powerpoint with 29 slides and its activity booklet with 9 pages so that they can keep a written record of their learning.
The explanations at the bottom of each slide will guide you in your teaching. The corrections after each activity will also help you save a huge amount of time!
The lesson contains:
-a detailed objective slide
- a target setting activity
- a video as a starter with questions to answer
- a starter with pictures to label
- a reading with questions
- introduction to new vocabulary through repetition and a drilling game
- a review about opinions with pictures and reading texts
- an unscramble activity to practice reading and writing skills
- a puzzle game
- a reading from gist to details (reordering paragraphs)
- a writing
- a review of objectives
Enjoy! Have fun teaching in Spanish!
Teaching about food? How can we be sure that we have integrated all the vocabulary and grammar relevant to their level?
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback to teach about food around the world, adjectives and adverbs?
This flexible resource will bring English alive in your classroom and it will help you teach teenagers and adults about food, adjectives, adverbs and the present perfect (short insight)... 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 9 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 reading and writing activities to consolidate their grammatical skills and improve their writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A speaking about international dishes as a starter
- A mini quiz
- A survey about food habits (practice of how often?)
- A further survey about food experiences
- A video trailer with questions
- A reading with questions
- A matching up with adjectives (spicy, delicious, disgusting…)
- A grammar point about adverbs and adjectives
- 2 practices about (choosing between adjectives/ adverbs and reordering the sentences)
- A short grammar point about the present perfect
- A speaking activity
- A group running dictation
- A team quiz
- A review of objectives
I suggest you use the activity booklet that goes with it so that your students can keep a written track of their learning!
Have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 5 Lesson 1 : learn about shopping list and food habit
Unit 5 Lesson 2 : learn about restaurant ordering and how much/how many
Unit 5 Lesson 3 : learn about Recipes and imperative form
Food is always an enjoyable topic with beginners. Now how can we ensure we engage, challenge and motivate all our students? Which activities would best suit their learning styles?
This “delicious” pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the vocabulary and grammatical needs of your students while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about food they like and what they eat/drink for each meal.
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 35 slides designed for beginners, pre/intermediate about food and meals and also an activity booklet with 12 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The lesson contains:
- a detailed objectives slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a dictionary challenge in teams as a starter
- an introduction to food items according to the meals
- a grammar point about gustar
- reading activities
- filling gap activities
- matching up activities
- speaking activities
- games (guessing games, word searches etc.)
Have fun when teaching Spanish!
Unit 5 UNE JOURNEE
Teaching about school, teachers, subjects, timetable and hobbies in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 11 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about school and hobbies. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- School (subjects, teachers, timetable)
- Hobbies
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
- negatives (ne ... pas)
- asking for and giving simple opinions and reasons
- quantifiers (très, assez, trop, un peu)
- numbers up to 100
- reflexive verbs
- near future tense for most able
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
Unit 2 A LA MAISON
Teaching about the house in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about house, furniture, house activities, time etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 7 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- where you live
- rooms in the house
- furniture
- telling the time
2. Grammar:
¥ Où? and Qui?
¥ à + town and à + hour
¥ further use of il y a
¥ regular -er verbs
¥ rules for pronunciation/spelling/dictionary work
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
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
Looking for activities and games that you can use, adapt and reuse over and over again?
I have created this resource with teachers and students in mind. Knowing how difficult it is to create original activities and game that will motivate and challenge students, I have come up with this 60-ready-to use interactive games, ideas and activities that will save you a lot of time.
Here’s how it works:
1. You get a fully interactive powerpoint with 113 slides and 60 activities
2. The activities are divided into 8 sections according to their use:
a. Guessing games and quizzes (Questions and hiding picture, Questions and rewards, Questions for a winner, Jeopardy, Multiple answers, Hiding picture)
b. Activities with timer (Questions with timer, Who the fastest in the class? , A short answer game)
c. Labelling activities (Geography and countries, Dinner’s ready, Spooky Halloween)
d. Team games (Blockbuster, Slapping the board game, Boardgame, Puzzle, Spot the differences, The dictionary race, Disappearing game, The first one who can name… )
e. Drawing and settling down activities (Read and draw, Write and draw, Word search, From English to French, The hidden sentences, Coloring activity, Pictionary, Back-to-back descriptions)
f. Activities in pairs (Battleships, Family tree, Matching up, Draw your family tree, Guessing games, Snakes and ladders, Noughts and crosses, Ping-pong, Filling-gap, Role-play, Classification)
g. Engaging everyone (One question/one student, Who’s my next victim, Mind map, Questions in a hat, Survey, Fashion show, Let’s debate, Counting game, Hot-air balloon, Find the mistakes, Post-it game, Dominos)
h. Other activities (Identify key words, The odd-one-out, Classification, Summary, Hangman)
3. To get access to the activities, follow the menu in each section. Click on the ORANGE button provided to choose an activity. To come back to the menu click on the GREEN arrow at the top right handside of each slide.
4. Each activity is explained with step-by-step instructions in the notes section at the bottom of each slide to save you time.
5. You also get the booklet with 56 pages with all activities that can be photocopied and used in class with students.
6. You also get in the booklet blank templates that you can use and adapt for your own needs.
- This resource is highly interactive to allow fun interactions with your students but you don’t need to be a techy to use it!
- It is highly adaptable. You just need to adapt it for your needs
- It is a time-saver: No need to overthink your planning.
- It works! They have proven to be very useful in my classes
If you are looking for more personalized activities for your class or your school, let’s get in touch! Always happy to help.
The French have voted for their 2 favorite candidates for the presidential elections. It is now quite hard to tell the future and if you are teaching French you may find it hard to explain the programs of each of the candidates. This resource will help you teach about the elections by putting the results into the French context and by explaining the birth of each political party.
This resource is aimed at intermediate-advanced level students. This resource contains a PPT with 24 slides with different activities. It also contains a booklet for students so that they can keep a track of their learning.
All the activities are corrected to save you time. Here's what you will get:
1. a matching up activity with the 5 main political parties that were competing (texts with main ideas and political trends)
2. a true/false activity about the political campaign
3. a reading with questions about Marine Le Pen and her program
4. Two video clips: Students need to answer questions about her political trends and main concerns for the voters of the Front National
5. A mini-biography to reorder about Marine Le Pen
6. A reading about the history of the FN and how it is presented now
7. A text about Emmanuel Macron and his program with questions
8. A brainstorming about what students may know about him
9. A video clip with questions
10. a mini-biography to reorder about Emmanuel Macron
11. A text giving some insight about his Party En Marche
12. The results as a conclusion
Enjoy. I am sure it will help you teach about the elections and their importance not only in France but also on the international scene.
I suggest you also use this resource that gives you a clear idea of the political system in France.
Check here French election Process
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. How about telling our students a bit more about culture and traditions?
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year for our French students to discover a bit more about other cultures. This lesson is aimed at proficient students in French (B2-C1) or it can even be used for native speakers that want more culture about the United States. However many activities have also been designed in this resource for lower level students so that they can understand the concept of being grateful for what they have.
Every activity is corrected to save you time and you get detailled notes at the bottom of each slide of the PPT to guide your teaching! The booklet is a good way to help your students keep a record of what they have learned in class
Here's what you will get in this 36-slide PPT lesson and its 12-page booklet:
1. A starter with a brainstorming
2. A video about Thanksgiving's story
3. A true-false activity
4. A text to reorder
5. A fun mini quiz about Thansgiving in History
6. A matching up activity about Thanksgiving menu
7. An interactive menu with 5 activities to choose from (You can do them all if you want as well.)
with - a recipe
- a maze
- a wordsearch
- a poem
- Thanksgiving tree
8. A thinking time activity with slides to open up students' minds to be grateful for what they have
9. a review of objectives
Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
Bonjour!
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
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