The students must read the word and decide if it is a real or alien word. On the back there is a picture for the students to try to write some simple sentences about. A good worksheet for low level young learners, can be used as a homework or for independent application of phonics, new vocabulary etc.

A worksheet to help ESL learners prepare for a school interview. For error correction, but also for them to discuss the quality and length of the answers and how important the mistakes are to comprehension. Also a scorecard for practice interviews included.

A guide which helps break down the PET Writing mark scheme making it easier for students to self-mark or peer assess, help new teachers to the Preliminary course or just help teachers speed up their marking and simplify their feedback. Focusing only on Email and Article - not the story. Designed for the post-2020 updated course.

A puzzle where students match questions to the answers. Ideal for ESL students learning question forms. A1

A puzzle where students match the past simple form of the verb to the base form. (V2 to V1). There is also a blank version of the puzzle for the students to create their own with different verbs when they have finished.

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.

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

A PPT helping students learn vocabulary for time. Focusing on days, months, seasons and other useful vocabulary. Aimed at ESL young learners, particularly those studying YLE and Pre-A1.

A puzzle designed to help students match countries to their nationalities. Good for ESL learners around A1 level. There is also a blank puzzle for students to then create their own with different countries/nationalities.

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

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.

A quiz about languages

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!

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

A worksheet to help students write sentences about places in a town focusing on ‘there is/are’ and prepositions. Ideal for ESL young learners Pre-A1/A1

Short simple sentences encourage learner to guess the animal they are describing. Designed for young learner ESL students. Pre-A1, YLE

A PPT which guides students through identifying the different functions of different emails, inntroducing useful phrases and sentence starters for different purposes. Students also consider formal and informal language and opening and closing phrases.

Students sort health vocabulary into the correct column ‘illness’, ‘accident’ or ‘treatment’. Students are then asked to create sentences using the vocabulary.

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