Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
Learn. Teach. Travel. Coach.
Having been in the education world for more than a decade I bring knowledge and experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and coach.
My teaching career has led me from England, France, China and now to South America
In the last several years, I have delivered a number of workshops and conference to help organizations and individuals to improve their teaching-management skills.
If you have any question about my ressource, feel free to contact me
A colourful powerpoint presentation with 6 slides to introduce the vocabulary about chores. It contains
- a reading activity as a starter
- a matching up
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs, ER verbs, IR verbs and FAIRE at the present tense
- a review of objectives
French where we live
Here is a colourful powerpoint with 6 slides to introduce places (seaside, countryside etc.), likes and dislikes + reasons
It contains
- a starter with texts and a true/false
- a classification of opinions and reasons
- matching up exercises etc.
- a grammar point about -er verbs at the present tense and a practice
Full lesson with student booklet can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/where-i-live-french-description-lesson-exercises-description-en-francais-ou-habites-tu-11131144
Here’s a freebie about countries and nationalities with 6 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a quiz about food around the world and countries
- a multiple choice about countries and symbols
- a matching up between nationalities and countries
- a review of objectives
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tesforteachers.com/teaching-resource/french-countries-and-nationalities-lesson--activities-no-prep--les-pays-nationalit-s-fran-ais-11090117
Watching TV may seem obsolete now with the easy access to the Internet. However, our students still watch TV and different different TV programs. How about teaching some vocabulary about TV shows then while reinforcing opinions and introducing the near future tense? This complete lesson made of a PPT with 27 slides and an activity booklet of 11 pages will help you teach not only about TV programs but also about grammar in a fun way.
Here's what you'll get:
-a self-target setting slide
- a matching up activity with TV programs
- an introduction to vocabulary and drilling through games ( slapping the board, say what it is, missing vowels etc.)
- a true/false activity
- a survey with questions about TV habits to recap adverbs of frequency
- a review about likes and dislikes
- a snakes and ladder
- a "Find who did it" activity to recap the past tense
- a grammar point about the near future tense + practice (filling -gap)
- a reading activity ( filling-gap, find the French, answer the questions)
- a pair work to extend their speaking ( What are you going to do? When? With who? Where?)
- Plenary with noughts and crosses
Have fun!
Teaching about food is always fun. It’s even more fun with beginners! The question is where do we start? How can we be sure that we have integrated all the vocabulary and grammar relevant to their level?
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource with a PPT and booklet will help you teach about food items, meals and food habits. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to textbooks/material.
The resource contains a PPT with 39 slides and a booklet with 14 pages full of activities for your students so that they can keep a track of their learning. The activities are corrected in the PPT to save you time.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains reading and writing activities to consolidate their grammatical skills and improve their writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A brainstorming with a shopping list as a starter
- A classification of items
- A dictionary contest
- A reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A grammar point about indefinite articles (du, de la, des)
- A practice about the grammar point
- A ranking activity with likes, dislikes and opinions
- Vocabulary about other meals (lunch, snack, dinner)
- Further vocabulary matching up about fruit and vegetables
- A conversation with opinions in pairs
- 2 writing activities about food and favorite dishes.
- A review of objectives
Have fun!
French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain in French how the whole political system works. You will find in this resource all the tools you need to help your students understand the role of the President and the voting process. They will also learn about the different official candidates for 2017. They will get an overview of the programs of the 5 main candidates and will get to grasps with what a political party is and the influence of the media on the political elections.
Here is what you will get in this resources:
a 20-slide PPT with:
- a brainstorming as starter
- an overview of the way the political system works with a graph with explanations about the roles of the President, Prime Minister, National Assembly, Senate etc.
- a presentation of the former Presidents with a matching up
- explanations about the advantages of becoming a president with a video to apply as a candidate
- explanations about the main concerns for French people
- an introduction to the main candidates with a reading and matching up
- a critical explanation about how the media can shape/influence politics
- an explanation about what the Left Wing/Right Wing is
- a review of objectives in pairs
Have fun!
Here’s a nice presentation with 39 slides and its activity booklet with 11 pages for the students to teach them English for the first time. (Unit 1 / Lesson 1)
The lesson is aimed at teenagers, young adults or adults with little or no English at all. It is all about giving them confidence in learning this new language. So whatever their mothertongue this should help they develop communicative skills quickly.
It contains:
1. A brainstorming about why it is important to learn English with a fun short video
2. A Truth/Myth activity about learning English
3. A writestorming about countries
4. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
5. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
6. Further practice with countries in Europe (aimed at more proficient students)
7. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
8. A matching up activity between European countries and flags to go further
9. A wordsearch
10. An interactive map with 8 students telling where they come from, which nationality they are, what they study or what they like
11. A comprehension grid to fill in with the texts about the students
12. A country/nationality matching up with a short grammar point about Capital letters and nationalities endings
13. Language work about formal and informal greetings
14. Complete the grid activity with greetings according to the time of the day
15. Introduction to the alphabet with the sign language and 2 audio recorded.
16. Filling the grid activity with words students already know
17. Reordering the conversation activity between two students
18. Filling the gaps with the missing words
19. Practising the conversation in pairs
20. Review of objectives
The booklet is printable friendly so you can print it in black/white.
All the lesson can be used at his full potential offline just download and copy the lesson on your USB key and you can use it in any computer with Powerpoint.
Let me know what you think by leaving a rating and a comment below.
More lessons and unit coming !!! Don't forget to follow my store for the update
Check here Unit 1 lesson 2 Number and basic question
Check here Unit 1 Lesson 3 Introduction, country and nationality
Students love celebrations and it makes a nice break in our teaching. However we can celebrate and learn, can't we? This resource is aimed at teachers who want to celebrate Halloween with their students while incorporating some vocabulary, grammar and revisions. Here's what you will get:
a powerpoint with 30 colourful and scary slides about Halloween and a 12-page booklet. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games to drill the vocabulary (disappearing ones,
- colouring activities (2)
- masks to prepare for halloween (3)
- a word search
- a matching up activity about the body part
- a battleship
- a slide about opinions and reasons
a booklet with 12 pages about Halloween to use with your students. It contains:
- a word search
- colouring activities to practise colours
- a skeleton labelling activity to recap about body parts
- a review about likes/dislikes and reasons
- a battleship
- a review of objectives
I suggest you use it along with the powerpoint Spanish Halloween for more efficiency!
here's a bundle that consists of a powerpoint (26 slides) and its activity booklet for students to teach about European countries and nationalities. It contains:
- a self target setting activity
- 1 quiz about food
- 1 quiz about symbols
- 1 matching up activity
- introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling
- explanation between nationalities and countries
- writing activities
- 1 reading activity
- 1 word search
- a review of objectives
Bonjour
Here's a powerpoint with 20 slides and a student booklet with 8 pages to teach about the environment and its protection. It was made for Earth Day but it can be used anytime. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide with detailed objectives
- videos about Earth day as a starter
- an introduction to vocabulary through a matching up
- texts about the environment, pollution and solutions
- debating activities with arguments to sort out
- vocabulary for debates (opinions and disagreement)
- videos about solutions to protect the environment with a conversation to reorder and a sketch to do
- a word search as plenary
- a detailed review of objectives.
Enjoy!
BUNDLE DESCRIPTION
Back to school? Not sure where to start? Not ready with your Unit plans/Schemes of work?
This resource of about 65 pages will help you plan your whole year with French beginners.
It contains 6 unit plans with that you can use to teach for 6-7 weeks each. They follow a logical teaching order and they are aimed at absolute beginners.
You will be able to teach your students from the alphabet, to pets, colors, family, hobbies, sports, opinions, music, food etc. Not to mention the grammar that is embedded in each of them.
Each Unit plan contains teaching objectives, suggested activities, homework and differentiation. They are also flexible to suit all your learners’ abilities and learning styles.
More details about each Unit :
Unit 1 description BIENVENUE
Back to school? Where to start to teach French to absolute beginners? How can you make a quick start while not worrying about Unit plans? Here’s the answer!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your first weeks with French beginners. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 9 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Greetings/self-introduction
- Asking/answering personal questions
- Objects
- Colors
- Days/Months/date
- Classroom instructions
2. Grammar:
¥ indefinite and definite articles
¥ numbers 1–31
¥ il y a
¥ regular plurals
¥ imperative forms
¥ possession using de
Unit 2 description A LA MAISON
Teaching about the house in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about house, furniture, house activities, time etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 7 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- where you live
- rooms in the house
- furniture
- telling the time
2. Grammar:
¥ Où? and Qui?
¥ à + town and à + hour
¥ further use of il y a
¥ regular -er verbs
¥ rules for pronunciation/spelling/dictionary work
Unit 3 description MA FAMILLE
Teaching about the family, pets, descriptions in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 8 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about family, pets, physical and personality description, opinions, reasons, numbers up to 69 etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- family
- pets
- descriptions
- personality and physical appearance
- opinions and reasons
- numbers
2. Grammar:
¥ negatives
¥ subject pronouns
¥ present tense of avoir and être
¥ review about possessive adjectives (first, second and third persons)
¥ prepositions
¥ agreement of adjectives
¥ numbers 32–69
Unit 4 description Qu’est-ce qu’on fait?
Teaching about activities, hobbies, chores, likes and dislikes in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 10 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about places in town, activities, hobbies, chores, opinions and reasons etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Places in town/home
- Hobbies
- Chores
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
¥ aller
¥ à + definite article
¥ irregular verbs
¥ questions with Est-ce que ...? and Qu’est-ce que ...?
¥ simple opinions
¥ imperative forms
¥ using a dictionary effectively
Unit 5 description UNE JOURNEE
Teaching about school, teachers, subjects, timetable and hobbies in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 11 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about school and hobbies. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- School (subjects, teachers, timetable)
- Hobbies
- Opinions and reasons
2. Grammar:
- negatives (ne ... pas)
- asking for and giving simple opinions and reasons
- quantifiers (très, assez, trop, un peu)
- numbers up to 100
- reflexive verbs
- near future tense for most able
Unit 6 description ON S’AMUSE
Teaching about sports, hobbies, music and interests in French to beginners? Not quite sure what to do and how to organize your teaching progression? Here’s some help!
This resource of 12 pages will help you plan your weeks with French beginners when teaching about sport, hobbies, opinions, music etc. It is aimed at 12-15 hours of teaching corresponding to about 6-7 weeks depending on your school’s system.
It contains 8 lesson outlines divided by context, teaching objectives, suggested activities, and homework. The Unit plans are also differentiated to suit all your learners. They follow a logical teaching order to allow a smooth spiraled progression for your learners.
With this resource you will be able to teach about:
1. Vocabulary/Context:
- Hobbies
- Sports
- Music
- Likes and dislikes
2. Grammar:
¥ jouer à, faire du
¥ aller + infinitive
¥ adverbs od frequency and time
¥ use of conjunctions
All the resource can be used individually but I will advice you to follow the unit.
Don't forget to follow my shop for more coming bundle
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Teaching about food is always fun. It’s even more fun with beginners! The question is where do we start? How can we be sure that we have integrated all the vocabulary and grammar relevant to their level?
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about food items, meals food habits and count-non count words. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 29 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains reading and writing activities to consolidate their grammatical skills and improve their writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A brainstorming with a shopping list as a starter
- A classification of items
- A reading about breakfast with a comprehension grid
- A matching up activity with breakfast items
- A grammar point about count - non count nouns
- A practice about the grammar point
- An introduction to quantifier words (box, can, bottle, tube…)
- A conversation with gaps and count/non-count/quantifiers nouns
- A ranking activity with likes, dislikes and opinions
- Vocabulary about other meals (lunch, snack, dinner)
- Further vocabulary matching up about fruit and vegetables
- A conversation with opinions in pairs
- 2 writing activities about food and favorite dishes.
- A review of objectives
I suggest you use the activity booklet that goes with it so that your students can keep a written track of their learning!
Have fun!
Bonjour!
Here’s a nice booklet to teach your students about the Subjunctive mood. It is aimed at Advanced students or a very good group of Intermediate. It contains 9 pages with:
- an explanation about the use of the subjunctive
- sentences where students need to find the verbs and translate
- an explanation about the formation of the subjunctive
- expressions that require the subjunctive
- a practice
Enjoy!
Here is a very colourful powerpoint with 44 slides to teach numbers from 1 to 31 with its student activities booklet.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- some practice activities that can help to pre-teach pets, animals or to review them
- some maths games and an extension for beginners to ask for age and say how old they are
- writing activities (word search, correct the mistake, matching up, solve the equation)
- a review of objectives
This fun resource has been designed to help young learners discover how to put syllables together in French to create words. It will help them decipher the syllables while having fun and working collaboratively.
The other good thing about this playing cards resource is that you will be able to use it over and over again if you laminate the cards.
So here are the objectives of the playing card games:
Identifying the sounds and the syllables
Identifying and reading syllables and words
Here’s what you get:
88 playing cards:
24 blue caterpillar cards with consonant sounds: m-n-gn-p-t-c-cu-k-qu-b-d-g-gu-f-ph-s-ç-ch-x
64 green caterpillar cards vowel sounds: a(x2)-e(x2)-i(x2)-o(x2)-u(x2)-y(x2)-é(x2)-è(x2)-eu-oe-oeu-au-eau-ai-ei-est-es-er-et-ez-oi-ou-on-om-in-im-ain-aim-ein-ym-un-um-an-am-en-em-ion-ien-ian-ieu-oin-ette-esse-erre-enne-eff-elle-ill-ail-aille-eil-eille-euil-euille-ouil-ouille
A “split caterpillar” to facilitate the reading progression
5 ideas of games: Every game is explained step-by-step so that you can vary the learning in your class easily
1 DIY box for the game: You just need to print it off and follow the lines!
(some designs for your box/cards as an extra)
The font and designs have been created to bring clarity to all learners
All you will need is a good pair of scissors, and ideally a laminator and cardboard for the box.
Have fun! Check my other playing cards for more efficiency in your class!
Our young generations of students are worried about the environment and global warming. I have designed this resource with my class of teenagers in mind who are eager to know more about the issue.
I would suggest you use it with a group of intermediate/advanced students. It can also be quite handy for complete French speakers.
You can use these speaking cards as a starter to check how much they know about the topic and you can also get them engaged in mini-debates.
The 45 cards are differentiated in terms of levels (15 green easy cards, 15 orange medium level cards and 15 red harder cards) to provide some differentiation.
You can use them as such in small groups or pairs of students or you can use the mini-game provided.
A good pair of scissors, a laminator and here you go!
Ready to be Back to School? How about having fun with your students while learning about them?
This resource contains LOTS of activities to break the ice with your students. These ice breakers will let you know about their interests, their learning styles and it will also help them get around the school if the buildings are new to them! It is a good way to start to reassure your students while learning about who they are.
This ready-to-print 17-page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.
The activities are very simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range. You can use this booklet anytime during the year to reinforce/introduce some citizenship or life-long skills topics.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities from the booklet:
- The Facebook profile filling gap to get to know them
- The personal questionnaire to know about their family, favorite subjects, interests…
- The learning styles questionnaire so that you can quickly adapt your teaching to their needs
- The “What to do” activity
- The target setting activity to be used every semester
- The reading strategies activities…and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·all the activities you need to settle down your class for the first few weeks
·thought-provocative material to develop your students’ thinking skills and collaborative work
This resource combines nicely with 30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
So let's start work and have fun!
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Preparing to be Back to School? Unsure what to do on a first day with your new students?
Included in this resource are 30 fun icebreakers for the beginning of the year, but also team building activities to bring collaborative work into your class. You can use them with any topic/subject. They are also highly adaptable for all levels and age groups.
‘30 Icebreakers for Back to School’ is a booklet compiling activities to break the ice with your students when Back to School but also to use during the whole year to enhance cooperation and group work.
These 30 icebreakers are simple to use and require NO or very little PREP and they are suitable for a wide age range.
They will encourage sharing, listening skills, cooperation and discussion while providing a fun and relaxed learning atmosphere
Example of activities for the First Week:
- 2 truths 1 lie
- Guess Who
- The chatterbox
- The wishes bottle
- The web
- The personality bingo and much more!
You will find in this resource:
·Step-by-step explanations on how to do each activity
·List of any material necessary
Icebreakers play an important role in helping students/teachers connect with one another. They are also a good way to enhance teaching by stimulating cooperation and participation. They will:
∞ Help a new group get to know one another.
∞ Help new members to integrate into a group.
∞ Encourage group building
∞ Facilitate listening skills.
∞ Develop social skills.
∞ Create a fun learning atmosphere
So let's have fun! Time to play!
This resource combines nicely with Back to school Icebreaker - Student Booklet Ready to print
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Teaching beginners in English is great fun but there is so much content to teach that we are not always clear where to start.
How about having the context, the vocabulary and the grammar in just one place with explanations, exercises and feedback?
This flexible resource will help you teach young adults and adults about family, physical description (face and shape) and a grammar point about the verb HAVE. This resource is aimed at helping teachers to complement their textbook or to give enough material for those who are not lucky enough to have access to ESL textbooks/material.
The resource contains a powerpoint with 31 slides with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step-by-step explanation about the progression of the lesson. The exercises are corrected to save you time!
The resource also contains an activity booklet for students with 12 pages so that they keep a record of their learning.
The approach is communicative with 2 listening activities and multiple opportunities for speaking to allow students to develop their speaking skills but it also contains a grammar point and interactive reading activities reinforced by exercises to consolidate their grammatical skills and writing skills.
You will find different types of activities to allow a greater differentiation in your class:
- A recap about personality adjectives and family members with a picture to label and a reading as a starter
- A listening/reading with a matching up
- Classification activities for adjectives
- An introduction to descriptive elements of the face (eyes, hair)
- A grammar point with the verb HAVE with examples
- Exercises (matching up Q/A, filling gap)
- Introduction to description elements of shape
- A listening activity about a movie review
- Interactive reading activities with a guessing game description
- 2 writing activities
- a word search as plenary
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 2 lesson 1 to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Check Unit 2 Lesson 1 Family and personality description
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Teaching about the daily routine to beginners is often fun. How about having the vocabulary, grammar, exercises and games in just one resource? This PPT lesson along with its booklet will help you teach in French about the daily routine with grammar and fun games. You will also get corrections of the activities in the PPT to guide your teaching and save you time!
The powerpoint presentation contains 29 slides and the activity booklet 11. It is aimed at beginners/pre intermediate and it contains:
- a detailed objective slide
- a self- target setting slide
- a video as a starter with vocabulary to check
- a presentation of the vocabulary
- drilling games (What is missing?, miming activities, slapping the board)
- a matching up activity
- a grammar point about reflexive verbs and a practice
- an unjumble the sentences activity
- a writing
- a nought and crosses
