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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
Hi everybody
The end of the year is not far, so here's a nice quiz for your students to review what they know about France and its culture (History, geography, food, sport, celebrities, brands etc!)
It contains a powerpoint and booklet with 51 questions + answers about France and French culture with:
- 15 general questions
- 36 questions divided into sections (geography, food, celebrities, monuments, music, culture)
- answers at the end
Enjoy! As a suggestion, have your students to work in groups and use the booklet. It's more challenging and creates a good team work at the end of the year.
All the questions are in French and I added the english question if needed.
French chores description
A colourful powerpoint presentation with 30 slides and its activity booklet with 8 pages for beginners to introduce the vocabulary about chores. It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a reading activity as a starter
- a matching up,
- a presentation to the vocabulary
- drilling games ( hidden pictures, noughts and crosses, miming activities)
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs, ER verbs, IR verbs and FAIRE at the present tense
- more vocabulary about frequency
- a practice
- another reading with more details
- a writing
- a unjumble the sentences as plenary
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, how to order and “How much/How many”?
This delicious flexible resource will help you teach teenagers and adults about food habits, menus, different types of restaurants, ordering food, How much/many... 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 36 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 recap about food (guessing game) as a starter
- A reading about likes/dislikes and food
- A reading with a filling gap activity
- A speaking about types of restaurants
- A matching up with food items/menu
- A conversation to reorder and to role play at the restaurant
- A writing about menu
- A conversation about ordering food in a fast-food restaurant with a comprehension grid
- A grammar point about How much/How many
- 3 practices based on the grammar point
- A disappearing game as a plenary
- 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
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!
Preparing to be Back to School? Unsure what to do on a first day with your new students?
You will find with this 29-slide powerpoint a nice way to break the ice with your students while telling them about the rules of your school.
This visually appealing powerpoint is really simple to use and requires NO or very little PREP. It has been designed for primary/Y7 secondary students.
It promotes a nice learning environment with the opportunity for students to speak to one another while providing some key principles about the way they should work, respect and behave to build a nice learning community
Example of activities:
- Pair speaking activities (ice breakers, reflection time)
- Reflection time about Hard-work, Respect and Pride
- Reflection about what to wear and the use of cell phones and technology
- Explanation about rules and why these rules are important to work, share and learn together
- a video to boost their self-esteem and reassure them
- a reflection time about what can be positive when coming back to school/what can be more difficult with post-it notes
- a review of the content of the presentation
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity at the bottom of each slide
If you are looking for more resources about Back to School, check these ones out:
30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
30 Icebreakers Back to school - Student booklet ready to print
Back to school Teacher Planners get organised
Back to school : Classroom display and certificate
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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 some, any, a few, a little, imperative forms and recipes?
This flexible resource will bring English alive in your classroom and it will help you teach teenagers and adults about food, ingredients, kitchen utensils, cooking verbs, imperative forms, quantifiers... 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 26 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 recap about food, dishes and meals (questions) as a starter
- A wordsearch
- An unscrambling the sentences activity
- A classification of items between healthy and unhealthy food
- A matching up with kitchen utensils
- A reading with questions
- A speaking activity about recipes to introduce ingredients
- A video
- A speaking activity about cooking recipes
- A matching up with verbs
- A miming activity
- A grammar point about quantifiers
- 2 practices about quantifiers
- a grammar point about the imperative form
- A mind map recipe activity
- 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
Teaching about the body to beginners? Not too sure what to do?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the vocabulary and grammatical needs of your students while having fun!
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 36 slides designed for beginners, pre/intermediate about body part and also an activity booklet 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 review slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with a video to trigger their speaking skills
- introduction of parts of the face and body
- MANY drilling games (Simon says game, guess games, one ping-pong pair work activity,drawing activities and many more!)
- matching up activities
- labelling activities
- a reading activity with questions
- 2 word searches.
Have fun when teaching Spanish!
Hi everyone!
The end of the year is coming...and sometimes by the end of the year we are not quite sure how and what to teach anymore.
Have you noticed how our students can look tired or bored at the end of the year? Are you looking forwards some vacations? I bet that's the same for your students.
How about boosting them a little bit with this colourful quiz that you can use to play in team?It will break your routine nicely while challenging your students.
Here's what you get in this resource: a 60-slide PPT and an activity booklet with 13 pages testing the knowledge of your students about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- 28 questions to test their knowledge with Multiple choice answers (about the geography, famous celebrities, food, languages...)
- 28 answers
- a review of objectives
Enjoy
February being the International month for being safer online, it’s time to get them aware about the threat and the danger of being online. A lot of our students don’t really know the risks and the damages social online can get them into, we hear too many stories about suicide because of embarrassing pictures or comments posted online and we should try to educate them to get a better understanding of this amazing yet dangerous tool known as the Internet.
Here's a presentation to get your students safe online. I am sure this resource will be useful to you for the Safer Internet Day.
It contains 24 slides with
1. an introduction about the use of digital media
2. the benefits of the new technologies
3. the dangers involved in the use of technologies
4. a video about cyberbullying
5. a reflection about cyberbullying vs Freedom of Speech
6. tips to use the Internet safely
7. a mini quiz about several situations and what students would do in these situations.
8. 4 possible challenges to engage your students actively to promote a safe use if the Internet
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If you are looking for more about bullying lesson and exercice can check this resource :
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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!
Unit 1 BIENVENUE
Back to school? Where to start to teach French to absolute beginners? How can you make a quick start while not worrying about Unit plans? Here’s the answer!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your first weeks with French beginners. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 9 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:
- Greetings/self-introduction
- Asking/answering personal questions
- Objects
- Colors
- Days/Months/date
- Classroom instructions
2. Grammar:
¥ indefinite and definite articles
¥ numbers 1–31
¥ il y a
¥ regular plurals
¥ imperative forms
¥ possession using de
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Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
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 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:
Vacations
Weather
Hobbies
Days of the week
Extreme sports
Movies
TV programs
Grammar:
Suggestions
Likes/dislikes
Present continuous
Each slide of the 31-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!
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)
Unit 4 Lesson 3 Hobbies -Movie - invitation
Unit 4 Lesson 4 Hobbies - TV Program / telling the time
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
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 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!
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. (Unit 1 / Lesson 1)
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.
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Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
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 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