A PPT to guide students through understanding the difference between facts and opinions. Understanding the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sources in History and using those skills to analyse a biography and create their own. The text I gave my students about Donald Trump was this one: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/donald-trump But any other text or adapted biography would work. This was three hours’ work for my class.

A simple worksheet to help Ss identify informal/formal linking words. Categorise their function and then apply to some gap-fill sentences. Ss can then use this knowledge to try to write some of their own sentences using informal linking words in open practice.

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.

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.

A short presentation on the power of laughter for the body and soul. A brief introduction to laughter yoga and encouragement to try. Should be a good start to the day with students finding funny. Used for a small school assembly roughly 80 students. Could last between 10-20 minutes.

A useful information sheet which walks students through how to write a PEEZL paragraph, then giving an example paragraph and sentence starters. There is then an activity for students to identify the correct parts of a paragraph to sort to make a PEEZL paragraph. This should help students to feel more confident creating their own PEEZL paragraphs.

An ideal homework or revision task to check students knowledge of the play. Students must colour the quotation to match it to the correct character. Great for start or end of term.

A resource ideal for a revision task or homework to check students can match the quotation to the correct poem. Great for Start or End of Term.

PPT - A lesson designed for an interactive communicative lesson with EAL learners teaching them to give their opinion. No printing required, all that would be helpful is if the students had paper and pen for recording some phrases. Designed for low level Teen learners. Could be good preparation for the Cambridge KEY (KET) or PRELIMINARY (PET) Speaking tests. Activity Sheet - To help play a fun game in the style of Would I Like To You/Unpopular Opinions. Ss write their own opinion and then T either gives them back the real opinion or the fake opinion and they have to try and convince the others in the class that they are telling the truth.

A resource ideal for a revision task or homework to check students can match the quotation to the correct character. Perfect for Start or End of Term.

A simple blank fact file to guide students to find important and useful information about the four different countries of the UK.

An engaging PPT designed to cover 6 x 1 hour lessons with a group of international students being taught subject support to assist them with their Business skills. Notes and answers have been added to the slides to help T where necessary. The lessons include a variety of speaking, writing, and grammar tasks using a variety of independent, pair and group work. The lessons are designed to get students understanding critical thining and how to think critically about different things and develop their problem solving skills teaching them to think ‘outside the box’. The grammar focus for these lessons is on the first conditional. There is a final project for the students to apply their learning.

A 37-page activity booklet which can be used for class tasks, independent study or homework. There are some pre-reading questions to discuss, then activities done chapter by chapter following the book including a creative writing task for each chapter. There are After Reading activities and While You’re Waiting Tasks. Tasks are designed to check comprehension and understanding, encourage PEEZL and develop writing skills, figurative writing techniques, build and develop vocabulary range and knowledge, as well as games to be fun and engaging. There are links to literacy skills. Answers are not included but are all taken from the Coraline novel. Students can use this to help them find the answers.

A PPT lesson guiding students through what a relative clause is, creating relative clauses, and how to use them to good effect in creative writing. This took my international students 2 x 1 hour lessons, but for native speaking students it may be a bit lesson, but could easily be two lessons with peer reviewing of creative writing and feedback etc.

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.

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.

A 24-page workbook created for independent study for EAL young learners. Different activities for all levels Pre-A1, suiting Starters, Movers and Flyers. Students can complete tasks for homework, or work on individual targets during class to help develop indpendent study skills. Really helpful with differentiation if you have a standout weaker student who needs extra practice, or stronger students who can work through tasks as early finishers. Tasks range from letter to word to sentence level including some phonics, grammar, and punctuation. Tasks are designed to engage also including colouring, wordsearch and dot to dot activities.

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 PPT which guides students to think about synonyms and building and developing their WOW word bank. Designed for EAL students, but would also suit a low attainment or low age literacy/English class.