Test Your Vocabulary Skills Talking About the Weather 3 Write two or three sentences to answer each of these questions: Examples 1. What is the weather like at the moment? 2. What is the weather usually like in your country, compared to another country?

By pure coincidence, each person below has a job that matches his or her name. Can you say what each one does for a living? Example questions... 1. Laura Whiteboard is … 2. Krzysztof Perm is … 3. Jonathan Script is … Answer sheet included.

Test Your Speaking Skills! Tongue Twisters Examples... Can you say these fantastic tongue twisters without getting tongue-tied...? M – Minnie Mouse makes many marshmallows for Mickey Mouse to munch on SH – She saw shy sheep She sells seashells on the seashore B – Bugs black blood Bugs black blood Lots more included...

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Word Pyramids Students are challenged to make 2 different word pyramids using the clues provided.

Test Your Spelling Skills Advanced Spelling Challenge 10 Write the correct spelling of each word below, then translate the word into your own language. Note: this exercise does not include American English spellings. Incorrect Spelling: example questions... 1. seperation 2. writen 3. Wenesday 4. temprature Complete with answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Anagram Challenge 1 See how many different words you can make using this selection of letters. Note: all your new words must be real words that are in an English dictionary! A J B M T E N P L S

Test Your Spelling Skills Beat the Spell-checker 1 – Going on Holiday Students read the sentences. Look at the words that have been highlighted by the spell-checker. They write the correct spelling underneath each highlighted word

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Role Playing - Going Out Different entertainment scenarios.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Finish the Sentences 2 Read the following sentences out loud. Students have to write an appropriate ending to each sentence. A correct answer is a sentence that makes sense, both in meaning and grammar (note: this could also be a straight writing exercise): Example questions... 1. Please sit _______________________________________________. 2. How old are _______________________________________________? 3. It will soon be lunch _______________________________________________.

Test Your Writing Skills What’s Your Least Favourite. . . ? A) Write your least favourite things below: Example questions... 1. My least favourite colour is: ________________________ 2. My least favourite food is: ________________________ 3. My least favourite TV programme is: ________________________

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills What’s Your Favourite...? Practise asking these questions with your friends. Write down their answers. Ask why they have chosen each answer as their favourite: Example questions... What’s your favourite colour? What’s your favourite food? What’s your favourite fruit?

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Role Playing – Shopping 1. Buying a CD Scene: a music shop. Bob works in the shop. Sue is a customer. Sue: Hi. I’m looking for Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits. Bob: It’ll be in the Rock Music section. Let’s go and have a look..... Read the rest here...

*** Contains a PowerPoint presentation of the book, which contains a wide range of different teaching activities **** Book 15: Sam Is Mad comes complete with a reading certificate so every child feels they are becoming successful reader at each part of the course. The books also contain a set of guided reading questions. I See Sam Books are a series of early reader books developed to teach children in kindergarten to read. The original series, written in 1972, as part of Southwest Regional Educational Laboratory's (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP), contained 52 books. The first book in the series starts with just 3 words: I, see, Sam. Every book or two adds a few words, until by book 52, the readers have read 95 different words. The SWRL Kindergarten Beginning Reading Program was first implemented in U.S. public schools in the early 1970's. Due to its tremendous success at achieving its goal of teaching young children to read, over the years the program has been copied, edited and/or revised by a number of individuals, institutions, and companies. Book 15: Sam Is Mad New Words mad - Decodable that - Special Word Plot Summary Mit the Chimp makes a paper-bag lion mask and puts it over his head. He pretends to be Sam the Lion and teases the other animals. Sis, Nan and a new character, Baby Bear, see through Mit’s disguise and are angry at his tricks. Sam is the angriest when he discovers Mits’ impersonation of him. Finally, Mit drops the mask and tells the animals that Sam is the real lion. Each new word throughout the program is repeated at least five times in the book in which it first appears and five more times in the next ten books.

**** Complete with a PowerPoint presentation of the book which contains a wide range of different teaching activities ***** Book 16: Sid New Words at - Decodable Sid - Decodable Plot Summary Mat meets Sid the Horse and teases Sid by pulling his tail. Sid gets mad and kicks Mat. Mat decides he wants to ride Sid but Sid bucks him off. Finally, Mat lures Sid with a big apple. As Sid is moving along with Mat on his back, he suddenly stumbles into a pool of water. Sid gets the apple and Mat gets wet. Each new word throughout the program is repeated at least five times in the book in which it first appears and five more times in the next ten books. I See Sam Books are a series of early reader books developed to teach children in kindergarten to read. The original series, written in 1972, as part of Southwest Regional Educational Laboratory's (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program (BRP), contained 52 books. The first book in the series starts with just 3 words: I, see, Sam. Every book or two adds a few words, until by book 52, the readers have read 95 different words. The SWRL Kindergarten Beginning Reading Program was first implemented in U.S. public schools in the early 1970's. Due to its tremendous success at achieving its goal of teaching young children to read, over the years the program has been copied, edited and/or revised by a number of individuals, institutions, and companies.

Are you teaching about paper? Are you looking at different materials around us? Are you looking for some visual resources to support your teaching? I have collected 30 high quality images of paper being used in different ways. This could make an excellent display or become a starting point for discussing why we use paper in lots of different ways. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss how the paper is being used in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about paper. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different uses for paper. The students can then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using paper in each case. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different robots being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about robots. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of robots. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Are you studying teeth or dentists? This is a fabulous ESL English teaching pack. It focuses on the topic and extends your students English skills. I have also added a blank set of templates so the students can create their own tests and share them with others in the class. A really nice teaching activity or homework task. Vocabulary 2. 40 Discussion Words 3. Collocations 4. English Spelling Statements 5. English Idioms 6. Tense Conversion Grammar 7. 5 Forms of the Verb 8. Sentence Blocks 9. Word Stress Pronunciation 10. English Word Stress Statements 11. Sentence Stress 12. Clear Alphabet Translation 13. Connected Speech 14. Discussion Questions Speaking & Listening 15. Situations 16. Describe the Pictures 17. Research Activities 18. Fun Fact Quiz 19. Answers

I love to get the students really talking about an issue. I saw another teacher do it and thought that this looks really effective. My Walk to School Week teaching resources are designed to get the students to think about why we should walk to school, what are the alternatives and the benefits and the costs of walking to school using different modes of transport. They are also designed to get students really talking, listening and expressing their own ideas. My teaching resources could be printed out and made into an eye catching, thought provoking display or used as a whole class discussion stimulus. I am now making a new series of resources like this, so that teachers and students can get a lot more out of every lesson.

Want to inspire your students? These pictures form the basic parts of a story to get them thinking. The pictures can be simply mixed up to change the story. The different pictures from the different stories could all be mixed up to create a really interesting mash-up of different stories. A real challenge is to see if a class can create a whole story from all the different images in the presentation!

The students can take these images and mix them up to create their own stories. There are two different ways of using this resource. You would separate the stories out, as I have done, or simple go wild, print them all out, laminate them and shuffle them and then use them as a starting point for student's own stories. The real challenge is to see if a class can use them all and still make a coherent story!