This course will assist you in identifying behaviour traits within yourself that could be creating barriers to effective communication both in the workplace and your personal life. It covers: Passive, Assertive and Aggressive styles of communication Ideas for gaining Confidence The use of I statements to clearly communicate your message. This is an interactive PowerPoint presentation that contains activities for learners to practice their communication skills. ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

Contents This resource contains rules, examples, and short challenges for commonly confused words and grammatical errors. It is fully editable so that you can change examples to suit your audience if you wish. They can be printed out and cut up to use in group / pair activities or printed out as a whole resource (workbook) for learners to work on individually. It covers the following: 1. There, Their, They’re 2. To, Two, Too 3. Accept vs Except 4. Your vs. You’re 5. A lot vs alot vs allot 6. Lose vs Loose 7. Its vs It’s 8. No vs know 9. Threw vs through 10. Correct use of semi-colon (;) 11. Affect vs Effect 12. Assure, Ensure, Insure 13. Proper use of Commas 14. Using ‘s’ to show plural and possessive (the difference) 15. Passed vs past 16. Weather vs whether 17. A vs An 18. Capitalisation in Sentences 19. Farther vs further 20. Compliment vs complement   How to Use this Resource This resource contains 20 rules and example cards that can be used in the following ways: 1. As a revision e-book for anyone that needs a quick refresh on the most common writing errors. 2. As a group or pair activity for learners to practice and test each other in various ways. Instructions / Ideas for Group Activities Activity 1 – Group or pair competition 1. Print out the rules that you would like your learners to work on. (Laminate to keep them fresh, if you want). 2. Hand out 1 card to each pair or group. Have them read it and complete the short challenge. (Check to see if they have it correct – an answer sheet is provided) 3. Learners then present their task to whole group to complete (on whiteboard). This can be timed. 4. Groups get 1 point for each task that is correct. 5. Groups then brainstorm ideas to remember the associated rules. 6. Points are tallied up and the winner is announced. Activity 2 – Group discussion and trouble shoot session 1. Learners select a card and read it to the group 2. They complete the task themselves first of all writing up sentence and answer on whiteboard. 3. Group members state whether they agree or not with the answer and share their thoughts 4. The correct answer is revealed by the teacher 5. Groups brainstorm ideas to remember the rules. Activity 3 – Individual work 1. Print out the resource in its entirety, or print out parts that you’d like to work on. 2. Learners complete by themselves, and then check their answers in pairs. 3. Answers revealed by teacher and corrected if necessary. Activity 4 – As a Warm Up Activity 1. Select one card at the beginning of the session 2. Group discuss and agree the answer for the task. 3. In pairs or individually think up more tasks to challenge the rest of the group.

This resource contains rules, examples, and short challenges for commonly confused words and grammatical errors. It covers the following: 1. There, Their, They’re 2. To, Two, Too 3. Accept vs Except 4. Your vs. You’re 5. A lot vs alot vs allot 6. Lose vs Loose 7. Its vs It’s 8. No vs know 9. Threw vs through 10. Correct use of semi-colon (;) This resource contains 10 rules and example cards that can be used in the following ways: 1. As a revision e-book for anyone that needs a quick refresh on the most common writing errors. 2. As a group or pair activity for learners to practice and test each other in various ways. Instructions / Ideas for Group Activities Activity 1 – Group or pair competition 1. Print out the rules that you would like your learners to work on. (Laminate to keep them fresh, if you want). 2. Hand out 1 card to each pair or group. Have them read it and complete the short challenge. (Check to see if they have it correct – an answer sheet is provided) 3. Learners then present their task to the rest of the groups to complete (on whiteboard). This can be timed. 4. Groups get 1 point for each task that is correct. 5. Groups then brainstorm ideas to remember the associated rules. 6. Points are tallied up and the winner is announced. Activity 2 – Group discussion and trouble shoot session 1. Learners select a card and read it to the group 2. They complete the task themselves first of all writing up sentence and answer on whiteboard. 3. Group members state whether they agree or not with the answer and share their thoughts 4. The correct answer is revealed by the teacher 5. Groups brainstorm ideas to remember the rules. Activity 3 – Individual work 1. Print out the resource in its entirety, or print out parts that you’d like to work on. 2. Learners complete by themselves, and then check their answers in pairs. 3. Answers revealed by teacher and corrected if necessary. Activity 4 – As a Warm up Activity 1. Select one card at the beginning of the session 2. Group discuss and agree the answer for the task. 3. In pairs or individually think up more tasks to challenge the rest of the group.

This is an editable resource in the form of a power point presentation that covers 10 of the most common writing errors. It can be used in classes to test learners knowledge in group settings. The explanations are contained in the notes area. This will be useful for discussion. 1. There, Their, They’re 2. To, Two, Too 3. Accept vs Except 4. Your vs. You’re 5. A lot vs alot vs allot 6. Lose vs Loose 7. Its vs It’s 8. No vs know 9. Threw vs through 10. Correct use of semi-colon (;)

This document contains common words that are found in Health and Safety documentation in the workplace that everyone should be familiar with. On the first page the word is listed with a plain English definition to the right. The next two pages contain cut outs so that a mix and match activity can take place with learners. This is suitable for those with low levels of literacy and / or English as a second language learners. I have put this into practice and it has been very well received within the workplace. I split the class into groups and they have a competition to see who can finish first and / or get 100% accuracy. Leads to good discussions as well.

This 15 slide powerpoint training presentation shows learners show to summarise text. This is an essential skill that takes practice to master. The resource also contains worksheets that complement the presentation. Files are available in pdf and ppt editable format. Presentation Content: What does summarising mean? Strategies to use when summarising – Nutshell method What Not to Summarise Task 1 – Write a summary about yourself Task 2 – Summarise a passage – example answer provided Task 3 – Group Activity – summarise an article ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

An elevator speech can be used to introduce yourself, talk about your company, network or pitch an idea. Everyone should have an elevator speech for different situations. It allows you to clearly and concisely get your message across so that others understand you and your intentions. This presentation focuses on using an Elevator Speech in a workplace environment. By the end of the presentation learners will have created and practiced their own elevator speech. Learning Objectives: - Understand what an elevator speech is. - Understand why you need to have an elevator speech. - Learn how to prepare an elevator speech. - Learn how to deliver an elevator speech.

The objective of the game is for players to become familiar with past and present tense irregular verbs. The winner of the game will have matched up the most present and past tense verbs. It is a mixture of knowledge, luck and good memory skills. This resource contains two files. A word document (so that it can be edited if necessary) and a pdf document. Answer key is included. 1. Print out the pages with the irregular verbs on them. (laminate to preserve if you want) 2. Keep piles separated (past tense verbs are underlined). 3. Have learners work in pairs or groups 4. Place the present tense verbs face down spread out in one area and the past tense verbs in another area. (Keeping them in rows and columns is best). 5. Player 1 turns over one card from the present tense and then tries to find the matching verb from the past tense area. 6. If a match is not made, they turn the cards back over and the next person has their turn. 7. When a match is made the learner keeps the two cards. 8. The winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game. 9. Optional – learners to then make up sentences with the verbs for extra points.

This resource contains a 65 page PPT presentation and a worksheet / handout for learners to write in. The animal slides are in groups of 3. The first slide in the group displays a photograph of the animal. The second slide displays a smaller photo and questions around pronunciation. The third slide has the answers to the questions. (Number of syllables, stress, phonemic pronunciation). This resource is suitable for beginners to pre-intermediate level English language learners. It is provided in pdf form and ppt so that you can make edits if required to the presentation. The photographs are professionally presented with frames surrounding them . They may be used for other activities as well, or in your own resources, as they are from open source sites such as pixabay.com. How to use this Presentation: - Show the first slide with the full picture. Elicit from Learners what the animal is. - Demonstrate correct pronunciation. Have the class say the word out loud as a group. - Depending on group size, have the class say the word individually. Or if a large group, break class into three and have them say it out loud as a sub group. - Go to the next slide and have class tell you how many syllables the word contains, and which syllable is stressed. Do they know the IPA translation? - Class to make up a sentence describing what is happening in the picture. - The next slide contains a suggested description and answers to the syllable and stress as well as the phonemic pronunciation. Have class write this in the worksheet handouts. (optional) This resource is suitable for beginners to pre-intermediate level English language learners. ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

Crossword puzzle with 10 common Health and Safety words. Answers included. Use for beginning or end of session or as a fill in activity. Supplied in pdf and Word format so that you can change the definitions to suit your industry / sector.

This is a Christmas activity that can be used as a finisher or gap fill or simply for fun! It contains 18 Christmas Words that students need to match up. Print and go worksheet. It is provided as a pdf and in a word document so that descriptions can be edited if required to suit your learners.

This resource contains a Worksheet with 3 different exercises to practice changing a verb to a noun using word endings. Simply printout and handout to class. Both pdf and .doc files are included for if you wish to change the words in the tables. An Answer sheet is also provided. The game is a mix n match cut out activity. ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

Use this resource to introduce learners to the basics of writing a standard operating procedure for the workplace. This can also be used for Workplace Instructions. It contains a worksheet with definitions and top tips to write an effective procedure and a template for learners to use to write their procedure. It is available in both word and pdf format so that changes can be made if required.

This template can be used when applying for jobs. It is set out in the correct format. It is a fill in activity for those seeking employment or practicing letter writing skills. Words that are in brackets should be replaced by your own specific situation. It is useful to encourage learners to research the company that they are applying to so that the letter shows that they have used their initiative.

This resource contains information on how to plan and run an effective meeting as a step by step process. There is also a gap fill activity for learners to complete and both Agenda and Meeting templates that learners could fill out. I use these documents for learners to conduct a mock team meeting. ** Leave a review for this resource and receive one free resource of your choice from my shop. Communications, Workplace, ESOL and Computing Resources

This resource is for use in teaching primary and / or ESOL, ESL. It includes a list of synonyms and antonyms in poster form displaying answers and a mix in match activity. This can be a pair or group activity to practice using this set of vocabulary. There are also two worksheets that can be filled in by learners. One to input antonyms and one to input synonyms. It has been supplied in both pdf and word format so that it can be edited if necessary.