Shakespeare, Creative Writing and TEFL resources.
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Shakespeare, Creative Writing and TEFL resources.
Created by a qualified secondary school teacher who has taught KS3, KS4 and KS5.
Browse my shop to find a variety of affordable resources, full lessons and worksheets related to the study of Language and Literature across the age ranges.
PowerPoint and resources for students to complete a creative writing/non fiction letter informing someone that they shall be taking part in the deadly 'Hunger Games’.
Students must write a letter....
Explaining that the person has been chosen to take part in the competition,
Informing them about what the Hunger Games are,
Describing what it will be like,
Advising them on how to survive.
Includes:
*Engaging discussion starter question
*Blurb for the novel
*4 pages from the text and comprehension questions
* Explanation of the difference between inform/explain/describe and scenario
*Engaging discussion question
* Clear explanation of the task
*Extensive model example
*Checklist planning worksheet
*Peer assessment plenary
A powerpoint and worksheets I created for my TEFL students introducing British food.
Outline:
1-7: Discussion questions about food.
E.g ‘What is your favourite snack?’
8-9: Brief overview of British food and pubs.
10-19: Quiz about British foods with ABC multiple choice options.
E.g ‘What do we pour on a Roast?’ A. Gravy B. Groovy C. Greasy
20-24: Guess the foods Game.
Using the worksheet, students tick the foods that they believe are from the UK.
25-27: Bingo Game
Using the Bingo worksheets provided, students choose 9 British foods and write them in the squares (I have also included 18 pre-filled sheets for convenience). On slide 27, ask students to choose a letter and click the letter tab at the side. It will reveal a food and if students wrote it down they cross out the square on their sheet. The first student to complete all their squares wins.
28-33 Crossword and wordsearches (with answers)
Using the worksheet, students look at the example pub menu. The missing words correspond with the crossword answers.
** 34-43** Role play activity and key phrases
Students design their own three course menu (sheet provided) and then take it in turns to practice the role play situations.
** 44-48** Amendable worksheets
A colourful classroom display to help develop a positive, growth mindset.
Includes the images as well as 8 negative phrases and 8 positive ways of approaching tasks to make your own display and to show students how to change the ways they approach learning and different challenges.
I have also condensed the images into a smaller A3 style poster to be printed with ease and to save time rather than cutting out all the individual pieces.
Suitable for all subjects!
This was Day 1 of my Roald Dahl themed EFL summer camp.
It includes art activities, games and cooking ideas based on the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.The day followed this plan:
Introduction
1. Introduce the story and characters
2. Students use the worksheet to draw themselves in the style of Quentin Blake and write about their favourite things.
3. Allocate students into teams and they introduce themselves to the rest of their team.
Team Games
1. Chocolate relay Race
- Students must run to unwrap the chocolate twix bar and then feed it to the next person in their team.
2. Balloon Popping Game
- In teams students must throw the darts to try and pop the balloons. The team to pop the most wins points.
3. Golden Egg and Spoon Race
- Students must race around the room, against the other team, whilst balancing an egg on a spoon. If they drop the egg they must restart and go again. The winning team wins points.
4. Design a candy
-Introduce different ingredients (unscramble the letters for EFL)
-Taste Test (students try to describe what they are eating whilst blindfolded)
- Introduce Willy Wonka’s strange inventions.
- In teams the students must think of a new type of chocolate bar/candy.
-Students draw and describe their invention using the worksheet and make posters.
- Teams present their invention to the rest of the class (my personal favourites were flying insect sweets and ‘King Candy’ that tasted like gold and made you feel like royalty for an hour… kids can be so imaginative!)
-The most interesting new candy invention will win points.
Art and Crafts
1. Clay Photo frames
-Using coloured card, PVA glue, paints and clay students decorate their individual photo frames.
2. Photobooth Props
- Students make props and costumes for the photobooth- including small hats, funny hairstyles, bowties, cut out candy bars and golden tickets on sticks that they can hold and pose with. A group photo is then chosen and printed to go in the frame as a fun reminder of the camp.
Cooking
1. Willy Wonka Bread
- Students spread butter or Nutella onto their sliced bread and decorate with sprinkles. These sandwiches can be cut into shapes and eaten…
- As they eat their sandwiches students can watch the movie with subtitles.
- If they finish early or don’t want to watch the movie they can complete the wordsearch worksheet.
2. Chocolate fondue and fruit slices on sticks.
3. Wonka fudge and Oompa Loompa cheesecake pops- I found these online and have included images and links to the recipes in the ppt.
4. Augustus Gloop Chocolate Slime
-Again found online. I did not have time to try this with my students but there is a link to the instructions. *Not edible!
This was originally taught to Korean Middle School EFL students for a fun art and craft/cooking camp however it is written entirely in English.
The aim of this summer camp is for the students to have fun and to learn about different countries and cultures around the world. Each day will focus on a different country and we will learn some facts, look at famous places, food and do an art and craft activity associated with the country.
At the start of each day students will guess the country. When I reveal the flag they must copy it onto their ‘passport’ sheet.
If students behave well or win a task they receive a sticker on their passport. The student with the most stickers at the end of the camp will win a prize.
Day 1:
Introduce the summer camp and different monuments and buildings around the world. Today focuses on lots of games and team building activities so that everyone gets to know each other.
Activity 1: Icebreaker
Students are given a ‘passport worksheet where they write their name, age, favorite food, favorite place in Korea and three places they would like to visit in the future. They should complete this quite quickly 5-10 minutes. When everyone has finished I pass the ball and when they catch it the student must say something about themselves and introduce themselves to the rest of the class.
Team game (1): Guess where it is from
Students look at the famous buildings/monuments from around the world. In teams they must guess which country they think it is from. The team with the most correct will win travel stickers in their passport.
Team game (2): Build a tower
In teams students have 30minutes to build a monument/tower using only dried spaghetti, peppero sticks and marshmallows. They have to work together as a team and at the end they can win points based on how tall, how wide and how unique their building is. The winning team gains stickers for their passport.
Lunch
Students are given cooked sausage, cucumbers, crackers and cube cheese. Individually on their plate they have to cut slices and try to build the tallest tower. The person with the tallest ‘tower’ wins a sticker for their passport. They can then eat these and the snacks from earlier for lunch.
Team game (3): Jenga race
In teams students take it in turns to race forwards and take a block out of the jenga tower. They must then run back to their team and try to build another structure. The team with the tallest structure at the end (whose original building hasn’t fallen over!) are the winners and gain stickers for their passports.
Art and Crafts
Using clay, students must make a small keyring or magnet in the shape of a famous building or monument from the lesson. Seoul Tower, Eiffel Tower, Pyramid, Big Ben etc.