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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
Teaching grammar to beginners in ESL is not always easy. How about having all the grammar 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 could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
- Verb be
- Simple present
- Possessive adjectives/Subject pronouns
- Wh-questions/Yes-No Questions
- Adverbs of frequency
Each slide of the 31-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, choosing the right option, correction the mistakes, 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 1 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge
Have fun teaching grammar!
Check more lessons for this Unit 1 :
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and adverbs of frequency Unit1/Lesson4
When we teach beginners in English one of the first lessons is about family and description with the use of the verb BE. 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 family, age, personality description and grammar points about the verb BE and adjectives. 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 28 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 self-introduction with questions to answer and to be created
- Matching up (about family members, age, personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Family trees
- Classification activities for adjectives
- Reading activity
- Guessing game about family members
- 2 grammar points followed by exercises and correction (BE and adjectives)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 5
to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Need more ESL lesson Check Unit 1 :
Unit1 Lesson1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit1 lesson2 Number and basic question
Unit1 Lesson3 Food, like and opinions
Unit1 Lesson4 Hobbies and adverbs of frequency
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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 about countries/nationalities, 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
Enjoy! Check and follow my store for more resources!
Check Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Check Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
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!
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
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!
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
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 others 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
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
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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.
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.
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.
Fall is a great season and a nice opportunity to teach our students more vocabulary.
We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach Fall vocabulary in French I clearly recommend a fun yet efficient approach that will hook them… Playing cards combines all these features.
The other good thing about this resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Learning-reinforcing vocabulary about Fall
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards differentiated in levels (green for easy, orange for medium and red for more challenging)
7 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
The content page so that you can quickly choose which words you want to use with your class.
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Don’t forget my other card games!
Ready to have fun for spooky Halloween?
We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach Halloween in French I clearly recommend a fun yet efficient approach that will hook them… Playing cards combines all these features.
The other good thing about this resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Learning-reinforcing vocabulary about Halloween
Here’s what you get:
30 playing cards differentiated in levels (green for easy, orange for medium and red for more challenging)
7 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
The content page so that you can quickly choose which words you want to use with your class.
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Don’t forget my other card games!
Ready to be Back to School? How about having fun with your students while learning about them?
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 ready-to-print 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
This resource combines nicely with 30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
So let's start work and have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
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!
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!
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!
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 !!!
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.
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