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
Beginners in English usually like telling about where they come from and where they live. 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 places (city, village, countryside…), types of accommodation (house, flat, farm…) and grammar points there is/are with vocabulary of places (traffic, pollution, cars, parks…) and likes/dislikes related to places and accommodations (beautiful, quiet, noisy…). 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 30 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 12 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:
- Texts with questions
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Reading activity with matching up
- Vocabulary activities about places
- Matching up activities (places, accommodations)
- Classification of likes/dislikes and reasons
- Reading activity with pictures to circle/cross out
- Grammar point about there is/are
- Describing activity with drawing in pairs
- A writing
- A word search
- Review of objectives
Have fun!
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
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 Introduction, country and nationality
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and adverbs of frequency
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
Back to school is just around the corner!
Have you noticed that teacher planners are all the same?
This pack of planners will let you have fun and allow you to personalize your organization for the year with a wide variety of covers for binders, personal data sheets, parents contact sheets, labels, weekly planning sheets and much more!
Get started with organization with this planner to get everything ready!
This pack of planners will keep you on top of your teaching!
In this pack you will get:
- 6 different cover options (If you want a more personalized one, just contact me with your own pictures ready!)
- 6 Personal data pages
- 6 Parents contact pages
- 6 Notes pages (to record meeting information, add reminders…)
- 6 Binder labels X 4 formats
- 6 Overview for weekly planning options
- Weekly planning pages
- 1 Grading sheet
Choose the options that suit you best and start planning!
For more Back to school resources, follow the links:
30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
30 Icebreakers Back to school - Student booklet ready to print
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
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!
Who doesn't like a story? We all do. Now what makes a good story teller? How can we use stories in lessons?
This presentation with 32 slides will help you develop your skills as a storyteller with your class. It contains:
1. an overview of the theme covered in the presentation
2. a brainstorming about telling stories
3. an explanation about why we tell stories and the benefits of storytelling in the class
4. a brainstorming about the kind of stories we can tell
5. 4 videos about types of stories
6. reflection about purpose of stories
7.step by step explanation on how to tell stories (atmosphere, facial expressions, choice of story etc.)
8. a video about Narnia
9. pair work practice about developing an atmosphere
10. pair work about describing emotions through facial expressions
11. pair or group work about delivering a storytelling
12. further ideas for storytelling
13. review of objectives!
Enjoy and have fun telling stories!!
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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.
Here a presentation about bullying. It is aimed at raising students awareness about the issue and get them ideas on how to fight it. I would suggest you use it during an assembly. The powerpoint contains 23 slides and the handout 5 pages
1. Think pair share activity about what makes them unique
2. Reflection activity about what the world would be like if we were all the same
3. Introduction to what bullying is
4. Bullying situations in pictures
5. True false activity about bullying figures
6. Process in bullying (Who is involved)
7. Consequences
8. Short video to illustrate the consequences with questions
9. Video clip about song “Hall of Fame” The Script to illustrate bullying and silent witnessing
10. Video about how to get help all together
11. Strategies to help the victim, the witness and to make bullies react
12. Conclusion and references
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
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