a “contract” for ESL students to do some “work” over the holidays or breaks to keep their learning fresh in their minds.

A PowerPoint which includes a game for students to identify vocabulary for hobbies, creating questions about hobbies, identify collocations for hobbies, and creating sentences using adverbs of frequency about freetime and hobbies.

A PPT helping students discuss feelings, learn idiomatic phrases relating to emotions, identify synonyms for different emotions, and develop their use of English in sentence transformation activities about feelings and emotions. Ideal for ESL learners studying PET (Cambridge Preliminary) or FCE (Cambridge First). NB: Students will need access to the Internet to get the most out of this resource.

A PPT covering vocabulary for different types of transport, collocations casino for phrases for travel and getting around, discussing and comparing photographs of people travelling, and analysing an email of someone discussing some upcoming travel. Useful for ESL students studying PET (Cambridge Preliminary)

A PPT Lesson designed to help learners describe films. Including useful vocabulary and phrases, as well as a reading task in the style of the PET (Cambridge Preliminary) Reading paper.

A fun quiz-style team gameshow designed to help test/improve students collocative knowledge and use of English. Several different rounds in a similar style to the FCE (Cambridge First) paper.

A worksheet helping students to identify vocabulary for family members, build sentences about family members, and a gap-fill based on a KET (Cambridge KEY) style Reading task. Ideal for A1/A2 ESL learners of all ages.

A worksheet to help students identify techniques for the PET (Cambridge Preliminary) Speaking Test for describing a photograph. Useful phrases and chunks of language to help develop their discourse management.

Worksheet where students read sentences describing a room and identify which photograph the sentence is describing. Useful for furniture vocabulary and prepositions. ESL A2.

Includes common daily routine vocabulary, collocations, sentence building with adverbs of frequency and using past simple to describe what you did yesterday. Ideal for young learners in ESL Pre-A1.

Worksheet designed for nationality nouns and adjectives for different countries around the world. Can be used with ESL Learners A1/A2/B1.

A simple PowerPoint to introduce students to the vocabulary for colours and different shades.

A PPT Team Game. Seat one person with their back to the board. The other students try to communicate what’s on the board using only body language and gestures. A great ice breaker for an international classroom, especially for lower levels.

Learners sort words/phrases and sentence starters into different categories; Involving the Reader, Giving Your Opinion, Making the Article Interesting, Linking Words, Making Suggestions/Recommendations and Developing Your Points. Made for A2.2/B1+ PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students but could also be used for native students.

Worksheet for creating relative clauses about family members. Students match two clauses and insert a word to join them together. Created for a PET (Cambridge Preliminary) B1 class but could be used with native students, teens, adults, etc.

A PowerPoint which guides students through understanding what a rhetorical question is and how to use them. Ideal for article writing. A2.2/B1+

A vocabulary worksheet for pre-A1 young learners. The worksheet covers rooms in the house, as well as furniture and common things found inside homes. ESL Worksheet.

Worksheet for B1 level students with lots of different useful vocabulary for shopping, particularly clothes shopping.

Sports Vocabulary PPT for B1/PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students. Identifies vocaulary for different sports, sport equipment, places to do sport, as well as a collocations casino-style quiz game for do, play and go.

Back-To-The-Board style class guessing game. Work in teams to give clues to your team-mate to guess the word but you cannot say certain words.