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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
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
Ready to be back to school?
If you are still not sure where to start, here's a pack of resources that will help you get ready for the beginning of the new school year.
You will get 5 resources:
1. 30 ice breakers for the beginning and rest of the year
2. a student activity booklet to be used during the whole year
3. your teacher planner with labels for binders, notes, parents contacts and much more!
4. Assembly for day 1
5. Certificates and classroom rule displays
1. Included in this resource are 30 fun icebreakers to for the beginning of the year, but also team building activities to bring collaborative work into your class. You can use them with any topic/subject. They are also highly adaptable for all levels and age groups.
‘30 Icebreakers for Back to School’ is a booklet compiling activities to break the ice with your students when Back to School but also to use during the whole year to enhance cooperation and group work.
These 30 icebreakers are simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities for the First Week:
- 2 truths 1 lie
- Guess Who
- The chatterbox
- The wishes bottle
- The web
- The personality bingo and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity
·List of any material necessary
2. Back to school is just around the corner!
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
3. 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 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
4. Assembly day 1
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
5. Certificates and classroom rules displays
This pack of resources will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1. This bundle has been designed for primary school students but it can also be used for your young secondary students.
You will find in this pack:
- 5 ready-to-print certificates to reward your students’ work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)
- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste
- 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Bonjour
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!
Bonjour,
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 38 slides and its activity booklet with 9 pages designed for beginners about food items and meals. It contains
- a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with a dictionary contest
- introduction of items for breakfast, lunch, breaktime and diner.
- guessing games
- a grammar point about partitives (du, de la, de l’)
- reading activities with filling gaps and comprehension grids
- writing activities
- speaking pair works about opinions and justifications
- matching up activities etc.
Enjoy!!!
A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 36 slides about clothes items in French for beginners and its booklet. By the end of the lesson students should be able to say what they wear at school and at home. It contains
- a set yourself a smart target slide to encourage student to own their learning
- a detailed slide about objectives and a recap of what students should know
- a word search activity with a dictionary challenge
- an introduction to the different clothes items through a matching up
- a missing game activity
- the odd-one-out
- a reading activity with questions leading to
- the grammar point about feminine and masculine nouns + the word order with adjectives of colour.
- a grammar point about feminine and masculine adjectives
- some pair works to develop their speaking skills and a fashion show description.
Enjoy !!!
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A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides + its activity booklet of 7 pages about colours and the rules for the feminine adjectives for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slides
- an introduction to the vocabulary though pictures about common objects and pets, opinions about colours
- drilling activities through games (quiz)
- a grammar point about wod ode with ajectives and focus on adjective agreement
- writing and reading activities in the booklet
- speaking activities
- a review of objectives
BUNDLE DESCRIPTION
Back to school? Not sure where to start? Not ready with your Unit plans/Schemes of work?
This resource of about 65 pages will help you plan your whole year with French beginners.
It contains 6 unit plans with that you can use to teach for 6-7 weeks each. They follow a logical teaching order and they are aimed at absolute beginners.
You will be able to teach your students from the alphabet, to pets, colors, family, hobbies, sports, opinions, music, food etc. Not to mention the grammar that is embedded in each of them.
Each Unit plan contains teaching objectives, suggested activities, homework and differentiation. They are also flexible to suit all your learners’ abilities and learning styles.
More details about each Unit :
Unit 1 description 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
Unit 2 description 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
Unit 3 description MA FAMILLE
Teaching about the family, pets, descriptions 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 family, pets, physical and personality description, opinions, reasons, numbers up to 69 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:
- family
- pets
- descriptions
- personality and physical appearance
- opinions and reasons
- numbers
2. Grammar:
¥ negatives
¥ subject pronouns
¥ present tense of avoir and être
¥ review about possessive adjectives (first, second and third persons)
¥ prepositions
¥ agreement of adjectives
¥ numbers 32–69
Unit 4 description Qu’est-ce qu’on fait?
Teaching about activities, hobbies, chores, likes and dislikes in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 10 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about places in town, activities, hobbies, chores, opinions and reasons 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:
- Places in town/home
- Hobbies
- Chores
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
¥ aller
¥ à + definite article
¥ irregular verbs
¥ questions with Est-ce que ...? and Qu’est-ce que ...?
¥ simple opinions
¥ imperative forms
¥ using a dictionary effectively
Unit 5 description 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
Unit 6 description 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
All the resource can be used individually but I will advice you to follow the unit.
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Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
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 will help you teach young adults and adults about food items, meals food habits and count-non count words. 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 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 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 reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- A grammar point about count - non count nouns
- A practice about the grammar point
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A conversation with gaps and count/non-count/quantifiers nouns
- 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
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!
Bonjour!
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides designed for beginners, pre-intermediate about body parts along with its booklet of 8 pages.
It contains:
* a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
* a self-target setting slide
* a starter with a video and questions to trigger their speaking skills
* an introduction of parts of the face and body (lot of vocabulary allowing extension for most able)
* lots of speaking games to drill the language (disappearing game, ping-pong game, guessing game, simon says, drawing game in pairs etc.)
* matching up activities
* labelling the pictures
* a reading with questions
* a wordsearch.
Lots of fun!
A powerpoint presentation with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages. It consists of:
- a detailed introduction to the objectives and a SMART target setting slide
- a review of basic family vocabulary as starter
- an introduction to the new vocabulary
- speaking activities in pairs and teams
- writing activities
- drawing activities
- 3 short grammar points about adjectives, to be, to have
- vocabulary about personality
- games (word search, puzzle, fun speaking activities, noughts and crosses etc.)
- a review of objectives
Here's a colourful 31 slide powerpoint about days, months and seasons in French for beginners. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary -for each topic -days/months/seaons
- games to practise the language (guessing games, matching up activities, noughts and crosses, slap the board game, a word search, a puzzle with letters to unscramble, a battleship)
- pair work activities with likes/dislikes and opinions.
- a group work with a survey
- a review of objectives
Bonjour!
Here’s a nice booklet to teach your students about the Subjunctive mood. It is aimed at Advanced students or a very good group of Intermediate. It contains 9 pages with:
- an explanation about the use of the subjunctive
- sentences where students need to find the verbs and translate
- an explanation about the formation of the subjunctive
- expressions that require the subjunctive
- a practice
Enjoy!
Jobs description
Here is a very colourful powerpoint presentation with 33 slides and its activity booklet with 7 pages to introduce jobs along with feminine and masculine forms in French. It is aimed at beginners-pre/intermediate. It contains:
- a detailed slide with what students know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video as a starter to engage students with some questions
- a matching up activity as a starter with pictures about jobs
- an introduction to the jobs items with repetition
- drilling with games (hiding pictures, missing one, slap the board game)
- a reading activity as guess games in pairs
- a true/false activity
- a grammar point about feminine, masculine words
- a team game with pictures to practice grammar point
- a reading with True/False
- a word search
- a detailed review of objectives
Enjoy!
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 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:
the alphabet, the numbers, countries, nationalities, food, likes-dislikes, opinions
and about grammar:
verb BE, simple present, subject pronouns, possessive adjectives, adverbs of frequency
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
- Reading activities
- Games
- Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be found individually :
Unit 1 Lesson 1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Unit 1 Lesson 3 Food, Likes and opinions
Unit 1 Lesson 4 activities and adverbs of frequency
Unit 1 Lesson 5 Grammar recap for beginners
Any questions ? Email me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Bonjour,
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.
Here is a very colourful powerpoint with 44 slides to teach numbers from 1 to 31 with its student activities booklet.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- some practice activities that can help to pre-teach pets, animals or to review them
- some maths games and an extension for beginners to ask for age and say how old they are
- writing activities (word search, correct the mistake, matching up, solve the equation)
- a review of objectives
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
Here is a colourful Powerpoint with 26 slides and its activity booklet with 5 pages to introduce instructions in the classroom and other useful language in French for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a matching up as a starter
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- drilling games for the practice (mini quiz, hiding pictures, Simon Says, slap the board).
- a grammar point about the imperative
- a matching up
- a matching up activity
- a noughts and crosses activity as plenary
- a review of objectives
Here's a nice bundle about Family. It consists of a powerpoint-21 slides and its booklet - 8 pages.
It contains:
It contains:
- a recap slide to see what students should already know
- a self-target setting slide for differentiation
- a presentation of members of the family
- a writing activity about family members
- a recap about age
- a vocabulary slide -differentiated-
- a grammar point about mon, ma, mes /practice
- a family tree presentation for a writing activity
- a speaking activity
- a puzzle activity
- a word search as plenary
- a detailed review of objectives.
We know that our students learn best when they have fun and work collaboratively. So, if you are planning to teach numbers 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:
Counting from 0 to 30 in French
Identifying and reading numbers
Comparing numbers in figures and letters
Here’s what you get:
31 playing cards from 0 to 30
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
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!
