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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
Looking for activities and games that you can use, adapt and reuse over and over again?
I have created this resource with teachers and students in mind. Knowing how difficult it is to create original activities and game that will motivate and challenge students, I have come up with this 60-ready-to use interactive games, ideas and activities that will save you a lot of time.
Here’s how it works:
1. You get a fully interactive powerpoint with 113 slides and 60 activities
2. The activities are divided into 8 sections according to their use:
a. Guessing games and quizzes (Questions and hiding picture, Questions and rewards, Questions for a winner, Jeopardy, Multiple answers, Hiding picture)
b. Activities with timer (Questions with timer, Who the fastest in the class? , A short answer game)
c. Labelling activities (Geography and countries, Dinner’s ready, Spooky Halloween)
d. Team games (Blockbuster, Slapping the board game, Boardgame, Puzzle, Spot the differences, The dictionary race, Disappearing game, The first one who can name… )
e. Drawing and settling down activities (Read and draw, Write and draw, Word search, From English to French, The hidden sentences, Coloring activity, Pictionary, Back-to-back descriptions)
f. Activities in pairs (Battleships, Family tree, Matching up, Draw your family tree, Guessing games, Snakes and ladders, Noughts and crosses, Ping-pong, Filling-gap, Role-play, Classification)
g. Engaging everyone (One question/one student, Who’s my next victim, Mind map, Questions in a hat, Survey, Fashion show, Let’s debate, Counting game, Hot-air balloon, Find the mistakes, Post-it game, Dominos)
h. Other activities (Identify key words, The odd-one-out, Classification, Summary, Hangman)
3. To get access to the activities, follow the menu in each section. Click on the ORANGE button provided to choose an activity. To come back to the menu click on the GREEN arrow at the top right handside of each slide.
4. Each activity is explained with step-by-step instructions in the notes section at the bottom of each slide to save you time.
5. You also get the booklet with 56 pages with all activities that can be photocopied and used in class with students.
6. You also get in the booklet blank templates that you can use and adapt for your own needs.
- This resource is highly interactive to allow fun interactions with your students but you don’t need to be a techy to use it!
- It is highly adaptable. You just need to adapt it for your needs
- It is a time-saver: No need to overthink your planning.
- It works! They have proven to be very useful in my classes
If you are looking for more personalized activities for your class or your school, let’s get in touch! Always happy to help.
The French have voted for their 2 favorite candidates for the presidential elections. It is now quite hard to tell the future and if you are teaching French you may find it hard to explain the programs of each of the candidates. This resource will help you teach about the elections by putting the results into the French context and by explaining the birth of each political party.
This resource is aimed at intermediate-advanced level students. This resource contains a PPT with 24 slides with different activities. It also contains a booklet for students so that they can keep a track of their learning.
All the activities are corrected to save you time. Here's what you will get:
1. a matching up activity with the 5 main political parties that were competing (texts with main ideas and political trends)
2. a true/false activity about the political campaign
3. a reading with questions about Marine Le Pen and her program
4. Two video clips: Students need to answer questions about her political trends and main concerns for the voters of the Front National
5. A mini-biography to reorder about Marine Le Pen
6. A reading about the history of the FN and how it is presented now
7. A text about Emmanuel Macron and his program with questions
8. A brainstorming about what students may know about him
9. A video clip with questions
10. a mini-biography to reorder about Emmanuel Macron
11. A text giving some insight about his Party En Marche
12. The results as a conclusion
Enjoy. I am sure it will help you teach about the elections and their importance not only in France but also on the international scene.
I suggest you also use this resource that gives you a clear idea of the political system in France.
Check here French election Process
Tolerance and religion can be a tricky topic to teach our students but it is crucial. It is sometimes difficult for students to embrace differences and to be tolerant. We live in a world full of prejudice, intolerance and ignorance and it is our role as teachers to teach our students how to respect each other regardless of their social-economic backgrounds or religions.
I have created this resource for every teacher that may be confronted to religious misunderstanding in his/her class and also for those who simply want to underline the key principle of the 5 major religions: Respect
It could also be used in assembly to raise awareness about religions.
Here’s what you will get with this resource: a 15-page booklet for students to keep tracks of their leaning and a 33-slide PPT to create more interactivity. Each step of the lesson is explained at the bottom of the slides and activities are corrected to save you time.
1. a brainstorming in pairs with questions
2. a truth/myths activity
3. a grid to complete in pairs/groups about different religions
4. a map about religions/figures in the world
5. a matching up with symbols/religions
6. an explanation about all main 5 religions in the world
7. a quiz done in the format of blockbusters in teams
8.a reading about the House of One in Berlin
9. questions
10. a game with post-it notes
11. a debate
12. a challenge
13. a review of objectives.
Enjoy.
The 1st round of the French Presidential elections is done. The French have voted for their 2 favorite candidates. They have 15 days to convince the French with their political visions and programmes. However, this is sometimes a little bit tricky to explain to our students who may have little knowledge about the politics or about the electoral process.
This resource will help you teach about the elections by putting the results into the French context and by explaining the birth of each political party and the programmes of these two potential presidential leaders.
This resource totally in English is aimed at intermediate-advanced level students. This resource contains a PPT with 25 slides with different activities with videos, questions and articles. It also contains a booklet with 11 pages for students so that they can keep a track of their learning.
All the activities are corrected to save you time. Here's what you will get:
1. a matching up activity with the 5 main political parties that were competing (texts with main ideas and political trends).
2. a true/false activity about the political campaign
3. an interview with Marine Le Pen followed by questions
4. Marine Le Pen’s video clip with questions to help students develop their critical thinking skills
5. A mini-biography to reorder about Marine Le Pen
6. A reading about the history of the FN and how it is presented now
7. An interview about Emmanuel Macron and his program with questions, again to let your students think about the his programme and vision
8. A brainstorming about what students may know about him
10. a mini-biography to reorder about Emmanuel Macron
11. A text giving some insight about his Party En Marche
12. The results as a conclusion
Enjoy. I am sure it will help you teach about the elections and their importance not only in France but also on the international scene.
I suggest you also use this resource that gives you a clear idea of the political system in France.
French Election System
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. How about telling our students a bit more about culture and traditions?
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year for our French students to discover a bit more about other cultures. This lesson is aimed at proficient students in French (B2-C1) or it can even be used for native speakers that want more culture about the United States. However many activities have also been designed in this resource for lower level students so that they can understand the concept of being grateful for what they have.
Every activity is corrected to save you time and you get detailled notes at the bottom of each slide of the PPT to guide your teaching! The booklet is a good way to help your students keep a record of what they have learned in class
Here's what you will get in this 36-slide PPT lesson and its 12-page booklet:
1. A starter with a brainstorming
2. A video about Thanksgiving's story
3. A true-false activity
4. A text to reorder
5. A fun mini quiz about Thansgiving in History
6. A matching up activity about Thanksgiving menu
7. An interactive menu with 5 activities to choose from (You can do them all if you want as well.)
with - a recipe
- a maze
- a wordsearch
- a poem
- Thanksgiving tree
8. A thinking time activity with slides to open up students' minds to be grateful for what they have
9. a review of objectives
Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
Who doesn't like a story? We all do. Now what makes a good story teller? How can we use stories in lessons?
This presentation with 32 slides will help you develop your skills as a storyteller with your class. It contains:
1. an overview of the theme covered in the presentation
2. a brainstorming about telling stories
3. an explanation about why we tell stories and the benefits of storytelling in the class
4. a brainstorming about the kind of stories we can tell
5. 4 videos about types of stories
6. reflection about purpose of stories
7.step by step explanation on how to tell stories (atmosphere, facial expressions, choice of story etc.)
8. a video about Narnia
9. pair work practice about developing an atmosphere
10. pair work about describing emotions through facial expressions
11. pair or group work about delivering a storytelling
12. further ideas for storytelling
13. review of objectives!
Enjoy and have fun telling stories!!
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The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
Hi everyone!
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Ready to spread love and vocabulary in French?
So, here is a colourful powerpoint with 37 slides about Valentine's day in French and its activity booklet to make Valentine’s day a memorable day for your students.
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!
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide,
-a video about Valentine -that should be played without the sound for students to predict the story
- slides explaining the story followed by a true false exercise
- a presentation of vocabulary with audio
- 3 fun memorising games
- a word search
- a maze
- a dialogue to practise with a review about likes and dislikes + opinions
- a colouring activity to review colours
- an activity to have students to write a Valentine's card
- a song by Edith Piaf with filling gaps.
- a song by Anais to open up the discussion
I hope you will like it as much as my students did!
Happy Valentine! Use the activity booklet for more efficiency!
Hi everyone!
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Ready to spread love and vocabulary in Spanish?
So, here is a colorful powerpoint with 36 slides about Valentine's day in Spanish and its activity booklet with 11 pages to make Valentine’s day a memorable day for your students.
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!
The level is from pre-intermediate to intermediate. It contains
-a self-target setting slide,
-a commercial about Valentine to trigger their speaking skills
- a video that should be played without the sound for students to predict the story
- slides explaining the story followed by a true false exercise
- a presentation of vocabulary
- 3 fun memorizing games
- a word search
- a maze
- a dialogue to practise with a review about likes and dislikes + opinions
- a colouring activity to review colours
- an activity to have students to write a Valentine's card
- a song with filling gaps.
- a review of objectives
I hope you will like it as much as my students did!
Happy Valentine! Use the activity booklet for more efficiency!
Here's a powerpoint with 31 colourful slides and its booklet with 8 pages about the Chinese New Year in French. It can be used for beginners and intermediate learners. It consists of:
- a self-target setting slide
- introduction to facts about customs and traditions for the Chinese New Year
- a quiz with a True/False
- an introduction to basic vocabulary about zodiacal signs with a game
- information about each zodiacal sign to practise adjectives
- a grammar point about adjectives (From easy to more complex explanation)
- a practice
- a speaking in pairs
- colouring activity with Chinese mask
- a review of objectives
The International Day of Woman is just around the corner and as March is celebrated as Women's History Month, let’s talk to our students about women’s achievements. This resource will help you develop your students’ awareness about the impact of women in History through a wide variety of games, videos, songs and projects. It is quite flexible to work with students from different levels/age groups.
It consists of a powerpoint with 40 slides and its activity booklet for students with 17 pages:
- a brainstorming about the topic with words as a support
- a video about main female figures in the world
- a mini quiz about what the International Women day is about with a reading about its origin and purpose
- other female figures and their inventions to match up
- a quiz about some important events and women (voting, amendment, bills etc.)
- a song celebrating woman's achievement (Roar by Katy Perry)
- a thinking slide about advantages/drawbacks to be a man/woman
- advertising about women and discrimination
- information about the Suffragettes and more descriptions about exceptional women
- a text about Aung San Suu Kyi (life and achievement)
- a group project
- a guess game activity
- a review of objectives
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!
February being the International month for being safer online, it’s time to get them aware about the threat and the danger of being online. A lot of our students don’t really know the risks and the damages social online can get them into, we hear too many stories about suicide because of embarrassing pictures or comments posted online and we should try to educate them to get a better understanding of this amazing yet dangerous tool known as the Internet.
Here's a presentation to get your students safe online. I am sure this resource will be useful to you for the Safer Internet Day.
It contains 24 slides with
1. an introduction about the use of digital media
2. the benefits of the new technologies
3. the dangers involved in the use of technologies
4. a video about cyberbullying
5. a reflection about cyberbullying vs Freedom of Speech
6. tips to use the Internet safely
7. a mini quiz about several situations and what students would do in these situations.
8. 4 possible challenges to engage your students actively to promote a safe use if the Internet
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If you are looking for more about bullying lesson and exercice can check this resource :
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/anti-bullying-resource-stop-bullying-at-school-11122728
Here’s a nice freebie with 8 slides to teach students English for the first time.
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 writestorming about countries
3. A feedback with a brief grammar point about the use of articles with countries (aimed at more proficient students)
4. A geography activity so that they can reuse the vocabulary about countries with a map to label
5. A matching up activity between world countries and flags
The full lesson with the student booklet activity for student can be found here :
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/esl-eal-self-introduction-countries-and-nationalities-11198850
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Easter is on its way! Can’t wait for a chocolate hunt, right?
In the meantime I suggest you this resource to develop your students’ knowledge about Easter and other celebrations in. This lesson will also give you the opportunity to practice vocabulary about Easter and grammar about the simple present tense in French
It gives an explanation as to why we celebrate Easter and other celebrations around it (Carnival, Fat Tuesday… ).
The presentation is made of 37 colourful slides and the activity booklet contains 14 pages to make your lesson more interactive and enjoyable.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video about Easter
- reading activity about the different celebrations(how we celebrate them and why with some pictures to help for the understanding.)
- a True/False activity,
- an introduction to the vocabulary
- games for drilling
- a noughts and crosses to be played in pairs
- an introduction to the present tense (ER, IR, RE) and a practice
- a word search
- unscrambling activity
- colouring activities for the younger ones
- a pair work speaking activity with opinions
- a puzzle with letters to unscramble
It is quite flexible and will allow you to teach from pre-intermediate to intermediate levels with kids, teens or adults.
So you just need to choose what will best suit your group.
Here is a powerpoint presentation with 6 slides to teach about Thanksgiving.
It contains:
- a self-target setting slide
- a video explaining the Pilgrims' story
- a true-false exercise
- a word search
- a review of objectives
They are so cute! Which kid wouldn’t want to cuddle a lovely pet? How about teaching children about pets then?
This colorful resource with a 32-slide PowerPoint and its activity booklet with 11 pages is aimed at beginners in French.
It will help you to teach about pets, colors and opinions in just on resource. The 4 skills are embedded and kids will love the games that will make your lesson an interactive one!
It is aimed at children or teens but feel free to adapt it for adults.
It contains:
1. a self-target setting slide so that students are responsible for their own learning
2. a matching up activity about colors as a starter
3. a small text about pets with questions
4. an introduction about pets
5. games to practice the language (Hidden game, slapping the board game, unscrambling words)
6. a grammar point about feminine and masculine words
7. adjectives about pets (matching up, definition about pets/animals)
8. speaking activities (survey, pair work)
9. a reading task
10. a writing task
Enjoy !!!
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!
Are you ready for Back to School? Is your class ready to welcome your students? Do you have a set of classroom displays and certificates to reward your students?
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.
Enjoy! If your looking for more Back-to-School material, check the following links:
30 Icebreakers Back to school - All level and Age groups
30 Icebreakers Back to school - Student booklet ready to print
Back to school Teacher Planners get organised
Any Question Mail me at carolinemusserotte@teacherlocker.com
The season for Back-to-School is a such an exciting time! It can be quite stressful too! So many things to do before greeting our students, so many resources and displays to prepare! Are you ready for Back-to-School? Is your class ready to welcome your students? Do you have a set of classroom displays and certificates to reward your students?
This pack of resources in French will give you a hand to create the perfect learning environment from Day 1 with your class. 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:
- 6 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
- 8 Reward cards to praise your students
- 1 Super Student rules worksheet that you can print for all your students to remind them of the rules in your class.
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