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 gapfill for the Monkey Puzzle Song by Julia Donaldson on YouTube. The missing words are available in a box with a picture prompt for differentiated support. There is also a worksheet for Makaton signs for animals from the story. This took my class a full hour. We listened to the song to enjoy it. Then we listened twice to do the gapfill. Then we read through the song lyrics in feedback to check our answers. Then we sang the song two times - trying with actions the second time! Then we discussed what Makaton was and made the signs and guessed which animals from the story they could be. Then the students drew their own pictures of the animals next to the signs.

Questions to test young learners reading comprehension and use of English. Encouraging literacy as students complete sentences, give their opinions, and re-write the story in their own words. Ss then identify adjectives and complete a comparatives/superlatives table.

Prompting questions for someone observing an experienced teacher. Designed for someone doing Assessment Only Route to QTS, or a teacher analysing another teacher’s class for professional development PDR. Could also be really useful for new teachers, future teachers or trainee teachers.

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

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 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 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.

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

A worksheet designed for a 1:1 literacy class with a primary student. Aimed to develop reading comprehension, story telling and writing skills. Would work well within a young learner EAL classroom too.

This class was made for international students studying Business English for the first time at roughly Cambridge BEC Preliminary level. It could also be a fun project for Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4 students who are new to studying business. It was over 10 hours of classes for my students, and about 15 hours including homework tasks. The PPT guides students through understanding important vocabulary for branding, analysing effective logos, conducting market research, understanding graphs, advertising techniques, creating and giving a pitch. It is designed as a group project in the style of the Apprentice and follows an Apprentice episode based on designing baby food. The students will be designing a new fast food restaurant.

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

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 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.

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 student sits with their back to the board. A word appears on the board behind them. The members of their team can each give a one-word clue to help the student guess the word behind them.

This was 6 hours work for my CLIL class of international students. An introduction to the concept of formal and informal language as well as activities for identifying and using the correct register. An introduction to entrepreneurs and USPs. Vocab and worksheet to help analyse a Dragon’s Den pitch, and then some guidance on creating their own pitch.

A puzzle designed to help students identify the spellings of months through matching the anagrams to complete the puzzles. Designed for ESL Learners, particularly young learners - Pre-A1

A simple worksheet for identifying whether to use ‘is’ or ‘has’ when describing people’s appearance.

Cut out and match the jobs to their descriptions. The jobs and descriptions come ready muddled so the students can cut them out as part of the activity if you need a time-saver!