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
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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When we teach beginners in English one of the first lessons is about family and description with the use of the verb BE. 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, age, personality description and grammar points about the verb BE and adjectives. 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 28 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 11 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 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:
- A recap about self-introduction with questions to answer and to be created
- Matching up (about family members, age, personality adjectives)
- Filling gaps
- Family trees
- Classification activities for adjectives
- Reading activity
- Guessing game about family members
- 2 grammar points followed by exercises and correction (BE and adjectives)
- Writing
- Survey
- Review of objectives
I suggest you use this resource after the ESL Unit 1 lesson 5
to help students structure their knowledge but you can easily use this resource on its own!
Have fun!
Need more ESL lesson Check Unit 1 :
Unit1 Lesson1 Introduction, country and nationality
Unit1 lesson2 Number and basic question
Unit1 Lesson3 Food, like and opinions
Unit1 Lesson4 Hobbies and adverbs of frequency
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Teaching about food? 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 to teach about food, restaurants and how to order?
This delicious flexible resource will help you teach teenagers and adults about food habits, menus, different types of restaurants, ordering food... 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 powerpoint with 22 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. It also contains a booklet with 6 pages so that students keep a track 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 speaking about types of restaurants
- A matching up with food items/menu
- A conversation to reorder and to role play at the restaurant between customers and a waiter
- A writing about menu
- A conversation about ordering food in a fast-food restaurant with a comprehension grid
- A disappearing game as a plenary
- A review of objectives
Have fun
Bonjour à tous,
When you travel to France with your students, have you noticed how they seem to have forgotten everything? Travelling to another country can be daunting, so if you want your students to be able to communicate, here's an easy to use survival guide.
It contains 23 pages /including the presentation with
- survival phrases with the pronunciation
- basic topic vocabulary (greetings, introduction, family, where you live, shopping for food, eating and drinking, food items, shopping for clothes, directions and ordering a meal)
- monuments not to miss in Paris
- a subway map
It can be used on your tablets/phones while travelling which makes it easy to use at any time. You can also use it in class as a preparation for your trip. It can also be used for anybody that wants to travel to France. My colleagues actually loved it!
Enjoy et bon voyage!
Bonjour!
Here’s a free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found here
Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.
Here’s a lesson starter about physical description with 7 slides. It contains:
- a setting target slide
- a matching up activity
- a vocabulary slide
- colouring and writing activities
- a writing and drawing activity
- a review of objectives
Full lesson and activity booklet for the student can be found here :
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/french-physical-character-description-lesson-booklet-no-prep-la-description-physique-personalit-11091395
Shopping in a market is a great topic to teach students about different topics: food items, prices, quantities, engaging in conversations are just some examples of what you will find in this resource.
Your students will love this resource full of fun games, videos and interactivity. It is aimed at teaching a B1 level groups (pre-intermediate) but it can be adapted to a wider audience. 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 progression!
⭐ Here’s what you’ll get in this 28-slide PPT: ⭐
A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson then…
Some questions as a starter to break the ice about summer
A video about a market in the south of France with elements to identify and questions
A matching up between pictures and words related to shopping in markets
a shopping list to complete with food items and then quantities
An activity to put food items under categories
A reading activity with a conversation at the market to re-organize
A grammar point about the imperative with exercises
A writing-speaking activity in pairs
A battleships activity in pairs
A fortune teller game as a plenary
Have fun! Have a wonderful teaching day!
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
A Powerpoint presentation with 15 pages underlining the importance of learning languages. To be used at the beginning of the year to highlight why it is important to have other languages rather than just English. It contains
- a starter with 3 questions (True or Myth) about languages and the correction
- an introduction with different celebrities able to speak other languages.
- information about where French, Spanish and German are spoken and some of the reasons why it is vital to have more than English as a language.
- three short videos (1 where French is spoken, 2 a touristic video about Germany, 3 a young polyglot girl )
- a reflexive slide where students chose 2 reasons why learning a language is vital.
International Women’s Day is an important celebration worldwide and it is crucial to tell our students about their achievements. For that purpose here’s a presentation with 41 slides in French. It is aimed at intermediate or advanced students and it is interactive to allow a lot of discussion and debates about women’s rights and their impact on society. It contains:
1. a brainstorming with words related to the topic
2. a video that should allow some conversations between students
3. a thinking time about important women figures
4. a matching up with inventions/women
5. a song related as a tribute to women’s achievement with quotes from the song to think about
6. a filling gap activity
7. a quiz about women’s rights
8. a short grammar activity
9. a pair/group work to think about advantages/drawbacks of being a man/woman
10. a matching up with French laws in France about women
11. a reading activity with a filling gap
12. questions related to the text
13. two adds about women leading to a creative activity in groups
14. the story about Aung San Suu Kyi
15. Guessing games
16. Maze as a plenary.
Enjoy!
Bonjour!
Here is a colorful powerpoint presentation with 35 slides designed for beginners, pre-intermediate about body parts along with its booklet of 8 pages.
It contains:
* a detailed slide about what students should know and what they will learn
* a self-target setting slide
* a starter with a video and questions to trigger their speaking skills
* an introduction of parts of the face and body (lot of vocabulary allowing extension for most able)
* lots of speaking games to drill the language (disappearing game, ping-pong game, guessing game, simon says, drawing game in pairs etc.)
* matching up activities
* labelling the pictures
* a reading with questions
* a wordsearch.
Lots of fun!
Happy Mother's Day!
Here's a colourful powerpoint with 24 slides and its activity booklet to celebrate Mother's Day in French with your beginners. It contains:
- detailed objectives slide
- SMART setting slide
- an introduction with a reading
- a True-False activity
- a review/introduction about chores
- a matching up
- drilling activities with games (disappearing pictures, slapping the board in teams)
- introduction to the present tense for -er verbs and chores
- a speaking activity about how students help their mums around the house
- a noughts and crosses in pairs
- a reading about the origins of Mother's day with a True-false
- an introduction to vocabulary to celebrate with a guessing game for drilling
- a word search focusing on positive adjectives
- a writing
- a recipe
- a detailed review of objectives
Enjoy! I suggest you use the booklet that goes with it!
Bonjour
Want to travel with your students? Here's a nice powerpoint with 26 slides and activity booklet with 9 pages about countries in the world with a specific focus on French speaking countries. It contains:
- a detailed recap of what students should know and an overview of what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about breakfast around the world where students identify the food
- a matching up between food and countries
- a quiz about European countries
- a world map puzzle to reorder in groups
- a grammar point about au, aux, en
- a practice
- a speaking practice filling gap information
- videos about la Francophonie with a True-false activity
- reading about French speaking countries and questions
- review about numbers and introduction to the Euros
- a conversation to reorder at the travel agent's
- a plenary with a word search
Enjoy
Teaching a language is not just about vocabulary and grammar but it is also about culture. How about embedding some culture while teaching your students about shapes and colors? This complete lesson made of a PPT (38 slides) and an activity booklet (10 pages) will help you teach your students about shapes, colors but also opinions and different types of paintings. By the end of the lesson your students should be able to recognize different types of paintings and they should be able to give their opinion. Here's what you get:
- a self-target setting slide
- a word search about colors and a dictionary search
- a review about clours
- an introduction to shapes through a matching up with shapes/colours
- drilling of shapes through games (guessing game and multiple choice, colouring activity)
- a quiz about famous artists/paintings
- a recap about likes/dislikes + fruit/vegetables (through Arcimboldo)
- a matching up about artistic movements
- a pair work -back-to back game with descriptions
- a reading activity with a description about Monet's Femme à l'ombrelle
- a writing activity to describe some paintings
- a plenary with expressions related to colors
- a review of objectives
Have fun
Hi everyone!
Here is a colourful presentation about Saint Patrick's day in Spanish. I made it quite flexible to allow you to work with children, teens or even adults! You just need to choose which activities are best suited for your audience! You have 12 activities in total! For an easier use you have notes at the bottom of each slide to guide you in your teaching.
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide
- a video about St Patrick in Spanish followed by questions
- a reading activity about St Patrick
- a True/False activity
- an introduction to new vocabulary through drilling
- a disappearing game to practise vocabulary
- a slap the board game activity
- a pair work- speaking activity
- a maze
- a group work with creation of booklet/powerpoint with another video
- a story about the Leprechauns- listening/drawing
- a drawing contest
- a word search as plenary
Student usually love it, especially the group work as they are free to use their imagination and research skills.
Lots of fun!
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. How about a resource with a fun context, some music, explanations, exercises and correction in just one place to make things easier?
Here’s a flexible resource to help you teach about the present conditional in French and have fun while teaching it!
You will find a step-by-step powerpoint with 22 slides (with guiding notes at the bottom of each slide) with a relevant context for the lesson, a clearly explained and progressive grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
This resource is aimed at intermediate students but you can easily adapt it for pre-intermediate or advanced students.
You will also get the handout with 6 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
The resource contains:
1. A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson
2. A starter with a speaking activity about hypothetical decisions
3. A song to introduce the conditional with questions and lyrics filling gap
4. An explanation about the different uses of the conditional tense with clear examples
5. An explanation about the formation of the conditional
6. Introduction to the most irregular verbs
7. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, sentences to complete, sentences to change from present to imperfect, matching up between texts and pictures)
8. A survey as a plenary
9. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the conditional tense!
Check my store for more for resources about grammar and tenses here:
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Future lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Imperfect lesson and exercices No Prep
Teaching grammar in French can be a headache especially when it comes to tenses. How about a resource with a fun context, some music, explanations, exercises and correction in just one place to make things easier?
Here’s a flexible resource to help you teach about the present conditional in French and have fun while teaching it!
You will find a step-by-step powerpoint with 22 slides (with guiding notes at the bottom of each slide) with a relevant context for the lesson, a clearly explained and progressive grammatical point and exercises to practice. Every activity is followed by a feedback/correction to save your time.
This resource is aimed at intermediate students but you can easily adapt it for pre-intermediate or advanced students.
You will also get the handout with 6 pages so that students can keep a written track of their learning.
The resource contains:
1. A self-target setting slide with the objectives of the lesson
2. A starter with a speaking activity about hypothetical decisions
3. A song to introduce the conditional with questions and lyrics filling gap
4. An explanation about the different uses of the conditional tense with clear examples
5. An explanation about the formation of the conditional
6. Introduction to the most irregular verbs
7. Exercises (filling gaps, writing, sentences to complete, sentences to change from present to imperfect, matching up between texts and pictures)
8. A survey as a plenary
9. A review of objectives
Have fun teaching the conditional tense!
Check my store for more for resources about grammar and tenses here:
French Grammar : The present Prefect lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The present Simple lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Future lesson and exercices No Prep
French Grammar : The Imperfect Tense lesson and exercices No Prep
Beginners in English usually like telling about where they come from and where they live. 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 places (city, village, countryside…), types of accommodation (house, flat, farm…) and grammar points there is/are with vocabulary of places (traffic, pollution, cars, parks…) and likes/dislikes related to places and accommodations (beautiful, quiet, noisy…). 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 30 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 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:
- Texts with questions
- Speaking activities in pairs
- Reading activity with matching up
- Vocabulary activities about places
- Matching up activities (places, accommodations)
- Classification of likes/dislikes and reasons
- Reading activity with pictures to circle/cross out
- Grammar point about there is/are
- Describing activity with drawing in pairs
- A writing
- A word search
- Review of objectives
Have fun!
Bonjour à tous
Here is a very colourful powerpoint with 18 slides for French beginners to teach about the Fool’s day.
It contains:
- a recap slide with what students should know and what they will learn
- a self-target setting slide for differentiation
- a reading activity about the origins of Fool’s day in France
- a true/false and its correction
- a matching up activity about vocabulary
- a wordsearch
- a speaking activity with opinions and justifications
- a reading activity
- a grammar point about the imperative
- a practice about the imperative
- fish to cut out
- an unjumbling sentences activity as plenary
- a review of objectives.
Enjoy!
Hi everyone!
Teaching grammar can be a little bit scary if we don't know where to start. To get you started with the challenging French grammar here's a bundle with 5 tenses:
1. The simple present
2. The perfect tense (passé-composé)
3. The imperfect tense (imparfait)
4. The future (near future tense and simple future)
5. The conditional present
For each tense you will find a powerpoint (between 16/22 slides) with clear explanations and corrections to save you time.
Each powerpoint comes with its booklet (about 5 pages) so that students can keep track of their learning with exercises and explanations. The powerpoint is fully editable so that you can adapt it to your class. The advantage of the booklet is that students can work at their own pace and most able students can move on to the next activity easily.
Each lesson follows a similar pattern:
1. Introduction to the grammar point through a real context (reading, song or video)
2. Questions to guide students in their discovery of the grammar
3. Explanations of the tense (use and formation)
4. Exercises (progressive ones from easy ones to more difficult ones: filling-gap, matching-up, speaking activities, games, writing...)
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com