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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.
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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
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 using the content page or you can follow the lesson about staying in hotels!
You could use it as a review, grammatical introduction or even homework to consolidate your students’ knowledge about:
Vocabulary:
- Places where we live (city, village, suburbs, mountains…)
- Description of places (calm, noisy, dirty, clean…)
- Types of accommodation (house, flat, farm…)
- Rooms (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom…)
- Furniture
- Household chores
Grammar:
- There is/there are
- This/that/these/those
- Prepositions of places
Each slide of the 28-slide powerpoint comes with notes to help you guide your students. Each grammar point contains at least 2 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 10 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 3 lesson 4 to help students structure their knowledge.
Have fun teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Any Question ? Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 3 Lesson 1 Where I live ?
Unit 3 Lesson 2 Describe your house
Unit 3 Lesson 3 Furniture and preposition
Unit 3 Lesson 4 Household and Chores
Teaching about hobbies is always fun with Beginners in English. The question is where do we start? 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?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about movies, invitations (accepting or refusing), the present continuous. There is also a review about extreme sports, use of “can”, “like”, “want”. 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 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 recap about extreme sports, abilities (can), wishes (verb to want) and likes (verb to like)
- A speaking (questions in pairs about movies)
- A conversation with questions
- A blind test about different movie soundtracks
- A matching up between movies/titles
- A matching up between movies/genres
- A review about opinions, likes and dislikes and reasons
- A speaking activity in pairs
- A reading about accepting/refusing an invitation
- A vocabulary point about suggestions and refusing/accepting an invitation
- A writing activity
- A grammar point about the present continuous
- 3 exercises to practise (choosing the right option, filling gap and writing according to the picture)
- More vocabulary about movies with definitions to match up and a grid to fill in
- A review of objectives
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Check previous lessons of this unit below :
Unit 4 Lesson 1 Hobbies -verbs play/do/go -days of the week
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Hobbies -suggestions-abilities (can/can’t)
When teaching about the house for beginners in English there are so many ways that it is difficult to know where to start. 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 furniture in different rooms and prepositions of places. There is also a recap about rooms in the house. 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 10 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 video about accommodations with questions
- Texts about apartments to match up to pictures
- A video to introduce the idea of flat share and flat interview
- A personal quiz about personality
- Labelling activities about furniture
- Matching up
- Speaking in pairs
- Games (bingo)
- Grammar point about prepositions
- Matching up between pictures and sentences
- True/False activity
- Description game in pairs about prepositions, furniture and rooms
- Reading with choosing the right option
- Writing activity
- Definitions and words to put in the grid as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 3 lesson 2 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 of this unit below :
Unit 3 Lesson 1 Where I live ?
Unit 3 Lesson 2 Describe your house
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!
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!
Watching TV may seem obsolete now with the easy access to the Internet. However, our students still watch TV and different different TV programs. How about teaching some vocabulary about TV shows then while reinforcing opinions and introducing the near future tense? This complete lesson made of a PPT with 27 slides and an activity booklet of 11 pages will help you teach not only about TV programs but also about grammar in a fun way.
Here's what you'll get:
-a self-target setting slide
- a matching up activity with TV programs
- an introduction to vocabulary and drilling through games ( slapping the board, say what it is, missing vowels etc.)
- a true/false activity
- a survey with questions about TV habits to recap adverbs of frequency
- a review about likes and dislikes
- a snakes and ladder
- a "Find who did it" activity to recap the past tense
- a grammar point about the near future tense + practice (filling -gap)
- a reading activity ( filling-gap, find the French, answer the questions)
- a pair work to extend their speaking ( What are you going to do? When? With who? Where?)
- Plenary with noughts and crosses
Have fun!
Teaching a language is not just about vocabulary and grammar but it is also about culture. How about embedding some culture while teaching your students about shapes and colors? This complete lesson made of a PPT (38 slides) and an activity booklet (10 pages) will help you teach your students about shapes, colors but also opinions and different types of paintings. By the end of the lesson your students should be able to recognize different types of paintings and they should be able to give their opinion. Here's what you get:
- a self-target setting slide
- a word search about colors and a dictionary search
- a review about clours
- an introduction to shapes through a matching up with shapes/colours
- drilling of shapes through games (guessing game and multiple choice, colouring activity)
- a quiz about famous artists/paintings
- a recap about likes/dislikes + fruit/vegetables (through Arcimboldo)
- a matching up about artistic movements
- a pair work -back-to back game with descriptions
- a reading activity with a description about Monet's Femme à l'ombrelle
- a writing activity to describe some paintings
- a plenary with expressions related to colors
- a review of objectives
Have fun
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, restaurants and how to order?
This delicious flexible resource will help you teach teenagers and adults about food habits, menus, different types of restaurants, ordering food... 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 textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 22 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. It also contains a booklet with 6 pages so that students keep a track 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 types of restaurants
- A matching up with food items/menu
- A conversation to reorder and to role play at the restaurant between customers and a waiter
- A writing about menu
- A conversation about ordering food in a fast-food restaurant with a comprehension grid
- A disappearing game as a plenary
- A review of objectives
Have fun
Teaching about food is always fun. It’s even more fun with beginners! The question is where do we start? 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?
This flexible resource with a PPT and booklet will help you teach about food items, meals and food habits. 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 textbooks/material.
The resource contains a PPT with 39 slides and a booklet with 14 pages full of activities for your students so that they can keep a track of their learning. The activities are corrected in the PPT to save you time.
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 brainstorming with a shopping list as a starter
- A classification of items
- A dictionary contest
- A reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A grammar point about indefinite articles (du, de la, des)
- A practice about the grammar point
- A ranking activity with likes, dislikes and opinions
- Vocabulary about other meals (lunch, snack, dinner)
- Further vocabulary matching up about fruit and vegetables
- A conversation with opinions in pairs
- 2 writing activities about food and favorite dishes.
- A review of objectives
Have fun!
French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain in French 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 and the voting process. They will also learn about 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 with a video to apply as a candidate
- 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
Have fun!
Poisson d'Avril
Here's a nice bundle that consists of a powerpoint (22 slides) and booklet (11 pages) to teach your students about April fools' day. They contain:
- a SMART setting slide
- a video
- a text to read about
- a true false activity
- a word search
- emails to read about April fools' day
- grammar point about the imperative
- a practice
- 4 fish to cut for students
- a speaking activity about opinions
- sentences to unjumble
Enjoy! Bon 1er Avril!
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:
Places where we live (city, village, suburbs, seaside…), description of places (calm, noisy, clean…), types of accommodations (house, apartment/flat, hotel…), rooms, furniture, household chores
and about grammar:
There is/are, this/that/these/those, likes-dislikes (with nouns/verbs in –ING) and reasons, adjectives, prepositions of places
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
- Speaking activities (surveys, games…)
- Reading activities from articles, tourist brochures, forum (with questions, vocabulary focus…)
- Games (bingo, drawing and speaking description)
- Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be bought individually in my shop.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
You can check them below:
Unit 6 ON S’AMUSE
Teaching about sports, hobbies, music and interests in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about sport, hobbies, opinions, music etc. 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:
- Hobbies
- Sports
- Music
- Likes and dislikes
2. Grammar:
¥ jouer à, faire du
¥ aller + infinitive
¥ adverbs od frequency and time
¥ use of conjunctions
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
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’s a nice presentation with 39 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English for the first time. (Unit1/Lesson1)
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 Truth/Myth activity about learning English
3. A writestorming about countries
4. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
5. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
6. Further practice with countries in Europe (aimed at more proficient students)
7. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
8. A matching up activity between European countries and flags to go further
9. A wordsearch
10. An interactive map with 8 students telling where they come from, which nationality they are, what they study or what they like
11. A comprehension grid to fill in with the texts about the students
12. A country/nationality matching up with a short grammar point about Capital letters and nationalities endings
13. Language work about formal and informal greetings
14. Complete the grid activity with greetings according to the time of the day
15. Introduction to the alphabet with the sign language and 2 audio recorded.
16. Filling the grid activity with words students already know
17. Reordering the conversation activity between two students
18. Filling the gaps with the missing words
19. Practising the conversation in pairs
20. Review of objectives
The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
All the lesson can be used at his full potential offline just download and copy the lesson on your USB key and you can use it in any computer with Powerpoint.
More lessons and unit coming !!! Don't forget to follow my store for the update
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
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!
It’s freezing cold outside but let’s warm up in class with some fun activities about winter! Winter is a nice occasion to teach about the weather, clothes, activities, in French. Your students will love this resource full of fun games and full of interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1-B2 level groups with a grammar point about the conditional. 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!
Here’s what you’ll get in this 26-slide PPT:
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about Winter
A video about Winter with elements to identify
A matching up between pictures and words related to winter
a video to learn more about the topic with questions
A matching up with activities in winter
A domino game
A reading with questions and identification of verbs and tenses
A grammar point about the conditional
2 exercises to practise the use of the conditional
A survey
A cootie-catcher activity
A writine activity
A review of objectives
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
Students love celebrations and it makes a nice break in our teaching. However we can celebrate and learn, can't we? This resource is aimed at teachers who want to celebrate Halloween with their students while incorporating some vocabulary, grammar and revisions. Here's what you will get:
a powerpoint with 30 colourful and scary slides about Halloween and a 12-page booklet. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games to drill the vocabulary (disappearing ones,
- colouring activities (2)
- masks to prepare for halloween (3)
- a word search
- a matching up activity about the body part
- a battleship
- a slide about opinions and reasons
a booklet with 12 pages about Halloween to use with your students. It contains:
- a word search
- colouring activities to practise colours
- a skeleton labelling activity to recap about body parts
- a review about likes/dislikes and reasons
- a battleship
- a review of objectives
I suggest you use it along with the powerpoint Spanish Halloween for more efficiency!
Bonjour,
here's a colourful and scary bundle with a booklet with 12 pages and a ppt with 48 slides to teach vocabulary about Halloween. It contains:
- a self target setting activity
- a starter with questions based on a video (I suggest you use the powerpoint to have access to the video and other activities)
- a reading activity about Halloween (origins of the celebration and La Toussaint)
- an introduction to the new vocabulary through repetition and drilling games
- a true-false activity
- a matching up
- a word search
- riddles
- a noughts and crosses
- a maths game
- a skeleton to label
- a conversation to reorder with vocabulary to look for
- how to prepare a pumpkin
- recipes for Halloween (scary eyeball truffles and chocolate mice!)
- a review about opinions
- masks to colour
- drawing activities
- an unscrambling the letters activity
- a review of objectives
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween