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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 PowerPoint to discuss gender stereotypes held individually or held by society. A link to a video, and some statistics of some consequences of gender stereotypes.

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.

Two Christmas-themed group running dictations. The first one features the names of Santa in different countries around the world. Students need to copy them correctly then work to match them. The second they need to copy and colour a picture correctly. Great for using Christmas vocabulary, working as a team and team-building, Christmas End of Term classes, ESL students and all students etc.

A list of ideas I created when I started teaching online for useful communicative tasks or websites to use. Days of research!

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.

Ss write Hitler’s ideal qualities for a woman. Ss find information about Eva Braun. Ss discuss how well she fitted Hitler’s ideals. Ss find the same information about Hitler’s mother and consider how well she matches Hitler’s ideals. Ss write sentences comparing and contrasting with the opportunity to bring it together in a PEE paragraph. (Extra support on PEE would be required).

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 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.

I made this PPT for classes I was teaching as CLIL for international students. There are elements of reading and listening comprehension.

A bumper PPT with approximately 12+ hours work. This covered the whole topic of Human Rights in Global Perspectives for a full term. It looks at Human Rights in general before considering religious freedom, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights in more detail. The PPT also covers key skills such as note-taking and referencing. There is then the opportunity for students to bring this together with a mini case study on North Korea at the end. The students will need their own copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but this is easily available on the Internet.

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.