Designed for international students studying BEC/Business English/Business CLIL, ideally B1-B2 level, although could go a little either side. Could also be useful for an introduction to Business Studies for younger students. Guides students through 6 hour lessons of tasks getting them to practice language needed for analysing and describing graphs, analysing graphs, comparatives and superlatives, quantifiers, writing, listening, speaking… Please check the notes as there may be some useful links in there.

An engaging PPT to help students identify good presentation skills. There are some slides at the end to help students think of an idea for creating their own TED Talk. This lesson was given after the students had already watched and understood a TED Talk.

A quiz/game for students to identify collocations to form idioms. The meaning of the idioms are not covered in the game and could be taught separately.

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 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.

An engaging PowerPoint to introduce Young Learners to vocabulary for transport and describing transport. Pre-A1 level.

An introduction to the wider topic of mental health focusing on identifying vocabulary for different emotions. Includes emotions people may feel in different situations and distinguishing between positive and negative emotions.

Reading task for A2/B1 students, ideal for those studying Cambridge Preliminary (PET) Test. Based on the topic of TV Programmes.

Cut and Stick activity for identifying different spellings of vowel diphthongs sounds in phonics.

A PPT which introduced vocabulary for describing different types of music, as well as introducing phrases for giving opinions and different statements to discuss.

A multiple page Word Doc which guides students through understanding the difference between prediction, skimming, scanning, gist, summarising and reading for detail. It then guides students through different tasks encouraging them to use the different skills. There is an article about VAR for them to use apply all the skills to at the end. This was a full hour’s work for my class.

A PPT which gives students 30 adjectives for describing personality, and 27 adjectives for describing appearance. Working in groups students need to identify the meaning of the adjective and add it to their table, working out if it is appearance/character and positive/negative/other. Students are then encouraged to add their own words, and then using this word bank they can choose words to describe photographs of characters. Designed for a class to help build creative writing skills, as well as making inferences about characters. Suitable for EAL, or literacy/English.

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)

A2/B1. A lesson on the topic of technology and inventions covering comparatives and ‘used to’. Ideal for PET (Cambridge Preliminary) students.

A PPT I made to introduce my students to what inferences are. There are tasks to make inferences based on a photograph, and then from song lyrics - one for each era. Debut and Fearless I have designed with question prompts for whole class examples, and then each other era to be printed individually for small group work. The final task is a writing task based on a photograph encouraging students to show not tell. Could also be the basis for a nice annotated class display.

Designed for international students to be able to discuss cause and effect in History. Ideal for Subject Support of CLIL classes, language level roughly B1-B2, although could be stretched or supported either side. Focuses on identfiying causes and effects and using linkers for cause and effect. Guides students to research and create their own paragraph describing causes and effects with some peer review guidance and an end debate task. This should be around 6 x 1 hour lessons, but could be made longer or shorter to suit. Remember to check the notes for useful links and information.

A PPT guide for about 2/3 hours worth of classes on showing not telling in writing, making inferences when reading and how to write a PEEZL (could be adapted to just PEEL or PEE paragraphs) paragraph. The PPT gives information as well as different tasks to help students build their skills as well as teaching some key vocabulary.