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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.
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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
Poisson d'Avril
Here's a nice bundle that consists of a powerpoint (22 slides) and booklet (11 pages) to teach your students about April fools' day. They contain:
- a SMART setting slide
- a video
- a text to read about
- a true false activity
- a word search
- emails to read about April fools' day
- grammar point about the imperative
- a practice
- 4 fish to cut for students
- a speaking activity about opinions
- sentences to unjumble
Enjoy! Bon 1er Avril!
French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain to our students 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. They will also learn about the voting system and 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
- 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
*updated 29/03/17*
Added Student Booklet
If you bought it before the update don't forget to get your booklet (it's free for you)
Have fun!
Teaching beginners in ESL can be great fun but what:
- when we don’t know where to start?
- when we have a mixed ability class?
- when our material isn’t updated or adapted?
You will find in this bundle enough material to teach your students for about a week (60/90 minutes for each lesson). Vocabulary in context, grammar with clear explanation, exercises and feedback to save you time and focus on the actual learning process.
It is flexible to help you teach ESL/EAL students beginners/elementary about vocabulary:
Places where we live (city, village, suburbs, seaside…), description of places (calm, noisy, clean…), types of accommodations (house, apartment/flat, hotel…), rooms, furniture, household chores
and about grammar:
There is/are, this/that/these/those, likes-dislikes (with nouns/verbs in –ING) and reasons, adjectives, prepositions of places
The bundle contains 5 powerpoint presentations with about 30 slides each 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.
You’ll also find with each lesson an activity booklet for students so that they keep a written record of their learning.
The approach is communicative and follows a logical structure to reinforce students’ knowledge day after day. It also contains grammar points 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:
- Listening activities
- Videos with questions
- Matching up activities
- Filling gaps
- Classification activities
- Speaking activities (surveys, games…)
- Reading activities from articles, tourist brochures, forum (with questions, vocabulary focus…)
- Games (bingo, drawing and speaking description)
- Grammar points context with explanations, followed by exercises and correction
- Writing
- Review of objectives…
Each lesson can be bought individually in my shop.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
You can check them below:
Unit 6 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
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Need another French unit plans or for full year check the bundle below.
Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides and its activity booklet with 8 pages to teach about Thanksgiving.
It can be used either at the beginning of the month to allow students to prepare Thanksgiving activities or right before the 4th Thursday of the month.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video explaining the Pilgrims' story
- a recap to make sure students have understood the video.
- a multiple choice quiz
- a true-false exercise
- a word search
- a maze
- a filling gap exercise
- a recipe
- a thinking time activity to make students aware that we need to be grateful for what we have
- slides inviting students to reflect on themselves
- a plenary that invites them to prepare activities around Thanksgiving.
Here's a powerpoint with 34 slides and its activity booklet with 10 pages to teach items of food for breakfast. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a video with breakfasts around the world
- a reading activity
- a dictionary contest
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- drilling games (hidden picture)
- a grammar point (du,de la, des) and a practice
- a grammar point about prendre/boire and a practice
- revisions about opinions
- reading activities
- a writing activity
- a word search as plenary
- a review of objectives
Here is a powerpoint with 34 colourful slides and its activity booklet with 6 pages about describing the house for beginners. It contains
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slide
- a short video to get your students started
- a wordsearch as a second starter which I also use as a dictionary contest
- an introduction to new vocabulary
- a quiz
- a where is waldo game
- a grammar point about the feminine and masculine words
- a reading activity
- a matching up activity with feminine masculine words
- a writing activity
- a plenary
- a review of objectives.
Here is a very colorful powerpoint with 27 slides and its booklet with 8 pages about Christmas for ESL beginners.
It contains
- a self-target setting slide,
- 1 video -as a starter to introduce some vocabulary
- information about Christmas
- a True-False activity
- an introduction to the vocabulary through drilling and a missing picture game.
- a word search
- a maze -to free Santa Claus-
- 2 colouring pictures
- a postcard to write for their parents
- a dialogue with Santa Claus to fill in with present wishes
- a song with a filling gap activity and a puzzle as plenary.
I wish you all a very nice Christmas!
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. (Unit1/Lesson1)
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.
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 Unit 1 lesson 3 food, like and opinion
Happy Saint Paddy’s
Saint Patrick’s day is always a nice celebration and a great opportunity for us as ESL teachers to teach some vocabulary and culture in a fun way. How about having interactive activities with songs, videos, speaking and reading activities in one resource? This is what you will get with this resource:
A PPT with 36 slides and an activity booklet with 13 pages full of activities and games to engage your students.
It contains:
a self-target setting slide
questions based on a video
a reading activity
a true/false activity
introduction to the vocabulary and a drilling game
a speaking activity with likes and dislikes
a maze
colouring activities
a writing activity
a group project
a Rhyming guessing game
2 songs for teenagers and/or adults
a word search
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It’s freezing cold outside but let’s warm up in class with some fun activities about winter! Winter is a nice occasion to teach about the weather, clothes, activities, in French. Your students will love this resource full of fun games and full of interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1-B2 level groups with a grammar point about the conditional. Note that some activities are more challenging to allow more differentiation in class. All the activities are corrected to save you time AND you get clear explanations at the bottom of each slide to guide your teaching!
Here’s what you’ll get in this 26-slide PPT:
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about Winter
A video about Winter with elements to identify
A matching up between pictures and words related to winter
a video to learn more about the topic with questions
A matching up with activities in winter
A domino game
A reading with questions and identification of verbs and tenses
A grammar point about the conditional
2 exercises to practise the use of the conditional
A survey
A cootie-catcher activity
A writine activity
A review of objectives
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
Bonjour,
here's a colourful and scary bundle with a booklet with 12 pages and a ppt with 48 slides to teach vocabulary about Halloween. It contains:
- a self target setting activity
- a starter with questions based on a video (I suggest you use the powerpoint to have access to the video and other activities)
- a reading activity about Halloween (origins of the celebration and La Toussaint)
- an introduction to the new vocabulary through repetition and drilling games
- a true-false activity
- a matching up
- a word search
- riddles
- a noughts and crosses
- a maths game
- a skeleton to label
- a conversation to reorder with vocabulary to look for
- how to prepare a pumpkin
- recipes for Halloween (scary eyeball truffles and chocolate mice!)
- a review about opinions
- masks to colour
- drawing activities
- an unscrambling the letters activity
- a review of objectives
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween
Black History Month/Martin Luther Jr. Day is a wide topic. So much to say. Little time to say it all. Black History deserves more than just one day or month. However if you are short on time and want to make the most of it with your students, this resource made of a PPT and booklet in French will help you. It consists of a PPT with interactive activities, songs and videos about Black History Month, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. The activity booklet is here to help your students keep track of their learning.
This full lesson consists of a powerpoint and booklet about Black History Month, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King in French. The powerpoint consists of 26 colourful slides with
- a quiz
- a true-false activity
- a song with its translation in French
- videos
- a puzzle
- guessing games
- reflection slides
- the story of Rosa Parks
And the booklet consists of 12 very colourful pages related to the powerpoint.
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Teaching about days, months and seasons is one of the first lessons we teach with beginners. Now how can we make sure that they are engaged, challenged and motivated? Which activities best suit their learning styles?
This pack will help you to tailor your lesson in Spanish to the vocabulary needs of your beginners while having fun! By the end of the lesson students should be able to talk about days, seasons and months they like and give some reasons.
Here is what you get in this pack: a powerpoint with 27 slides designed for beginners, about days, months and seasons and also an activity booklet with 9 pages so that students can keep a track of their learning.
To help you in your teaching, there are notes at the bottom of the slides to guide you. The activities are also corrected to save you time!
Now, are you ready for some fun and an active lesson full of games?
The lesson contains:
- a detailed objectives slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a matching up activity between seasons and pictures
- games for practice (word search, puzzle with letters to unscramble, guessing games, slapping the board game, noughts and crosses etc.)
- pair works to talk about likes/dislikes and opinions
- group work with surveys
- review of objectives
Have fun when teaching Spanish!
Ready to be back to school?
If you are still not sure where to start, here's a pack of resources that will help you get ready for the beginning of the new school year.
You will get 5 resources:
1. 30 ice breakers for the beginning and rest of the year
2. a student activity booklet to be used during the whole year
3. your teacher planner with labels for binders, notes, parents contacts and much more!
4. Assembly for day 1
5. Certificates and classroom rule displays
1. Included in this resource are 30 fun icebreakers to 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
2. Back to school is just around the corner!
This pack of planners will let you have fun and allow you to personalize your organization for the year with a wide variety of covers for binders, personal data sheets, parents contact sheets, labels, weekly planning sheets and much more!
Get started with organization with this planner to get everything ready!
This pack of planners will keep you on top of your teaching!
In this pack you will get:
- 6 different cover options (If you want a more personalized one, just contact me with your own pictures ready!)
- 6 Personal data pages
- 6 Parents contact pages
- 6 Notes pages (to record meeting information, add reminders…)
- 6 Binder labels X 4 formats
- 6 Overview for weekly planning options
- Weekly planning pages
- 1 Grading sheet
3. 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 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
4. Assembly day 1
You will find with this 29-slide powerpoint a nice way to break the ice with your students while telling them about the rules of your school.
This visually appealing powerpoint is really simple to use and requires NO or very little PREP. It has been designed for primary/Y7 secondary students.
It promotes a nice learning environment with the opportunity for students to speak to one another while providing some key principles about the way they should work, respect and behave to build a nice learning community
Example of activities:
- Pair speaking activities (ice breakers, reflection time)
- Reflection time about Hard-work, Respect and Pride
- Reflection about what to wear and the use of cell phones and technology
- Explanation about rules and why these rules are important to work, share and learn together
- a video to boost their self-esteem and reassure them
- a reflection time about what can be positive when coming back to school/what can be more difficult with post-it notes
- a review of the content of the presentation
5. Certificates and classroom rules displays
This pack of resources will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1. This bundle has been designed for primary school students but it can also be used for your young secondary students.
You will find in this pack:
- 5 ready-to-print certificates to reward your students’ work all over the year depending on the situation (work, piece of writing, effort and team work)
- 4 different classroom displays rules posters to choose from according to your own taste
- 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
Bonjour,
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 38 slides and its activity booklet with 9 pages designed for beginners about food items and meals. It contains
- a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with a dictionary contest
- introduction of items for breakfast, lunch, breaktime and diner.
- guessing games
- a grammar point about partitives (du, de la, de l’)
- reading activities with filling gaps and comprehension grids
- writing activities
- speaking pair works about opinions and justifications
- matching up activities etc.
Enjoy!!!
A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 36 slides about clothes items in French for beginners and its booklet. By the end of the lesson students should be able to say what they wear at school and at home. It contains
- a set yourself a smart target slide to encourage student to own their learning
- a detailed slide about objectives and a recap of what students should know
- a word search activity with a dictionary challenge
- an introduction to the different clothes items through a matching up
- a missing game activity
- the odd-one-out
- a reading activity with questions leading to
- the grammar point about feminine and masculine nouns + the word order with adjectives of colour.
- a grammar point about feminine and masculine adjectives
- some pair works to develop their speaking skills and a fashion show description.
Enjoy !!!
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A very colourful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides + its activity booklet of 7 pages about colours and the rules for the feminine adjectives for beginners.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a detailed objective slides
- an introduction to the vocabulary though pictures about common objects and pets, opinions about colours
- drilling activities through games (quiz)
- a grammar point about wod ode with ajectives and focus on adjective agreement
- writing and reading activities in the booklet
- speaking activities
- a review of objectives
Here is a colourful powerpoint presentation with 29 slides and its activity booklet designed for beginners about school objects. It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a starter with pictures to label
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling (disappearing game, slapping the board, hidden item etc.)
- 2 grammar points (fem, masc, plural forms- J'ai, je n'ai pas + practice)
- a noughts and crosses
- a word search
- a review of objectives
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!