Test Your Reading Skills North, south, east or west...? Using a map of the United Kingdom, find these places and answer the following questions: Example questions. 1. Manchester is to the north of London . . . true or false? 2. Newcastle is to the north of Edinburgh . . . true or false? 3. Cardiff is to the east of Nottingham . . . true or false? Answers included

Test Your Reading Skills Reading a Map 1 Look at the map of Melton Park (Included in the pack) and show whether these sentences are true or false. If you cannot say whether they are ‘true’ or ‘false’, write ‘don’t know’:

Test Your Research Skills World Wide Web 3 Match the web address extension with the country that it represents. Answers included.

Test Your Speaking Skills! Asking Questions 1 Practise asking these questions with your friends. Write down their answers: Examples... Hi! How are you? What’s your name? What’s your first name? What’s your surname?

Information Gap 1 - Looking for a Job Get the students working in pairs. Give one person of each pair the Student A page and the other the Student B page. There are four different jobs being advertised in the local paper. However, there are ten gaps on each page. Students should ask each other questions to find out the information that is missing from their page, then write it down, asking for spellings as necessary. Encourage them to communicate verbally to get the answers, rather than letting each other look at their pages! When all the students have finished, bring the group back together and ask checking questions to elicit the answers, as well as to find out how much the students have understood about the other material in the adverts.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Asking Questions 2 1. Ask a partner, and write their answers to these questions: Sample questions What’s your first name? ________________________________________________ What’s your family name? ________________________________________________ How do you spell that? ________________________________________________ What’s your address? ________________________________________________

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Bingo Calls 1 Below is a list of well-known calls that you can use with your bingo games. When each number comes up use the following phrases to announce them: Kelly’s eye - number 1 One little duck - number 2 Cup of tea - number 3 Knock at the door - number 4

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Booking a Holiday 1 A) Discuss as a group: what does having a holiday mean to you? B) Look at the topics below. In small groups discuss each of them, and then decide: a) what you want from your holiday, b) what type of holiday you will take, and c) what other things you will need to consider 1. How to find a holiday 2. Type of holiday 3. Destination and weather.. etc

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different objects and activities being shown in each of photos. I have collected together some of my best celebration PowerPoints about New Year. This was contains both pictures of New Year and also a celebration writing prompt to encourage students to think creatively in their writing. In addition, I have included a teacher guide which explains how you can use these Photo Flashcards in 31 different teaching activities in the classroom. They are easy to organise, lots of fun and will improve your students vocabulary and memory skills. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about New Year's Eve. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different New Year's Eve activities. 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.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different cheeses being shown in each of the photos. I have combined two different presentations about food with a set of 31 different teaching activities you can try in the classroom. The activities are short, fun and easy to organise. They will help to improve your students' vocabulary and memory skills. I added these resource to help you get more out of each purchase you make with me. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about The World of Cheeses. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of cheese. The students can then discuss which cheese they like and how they eat them. 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 items being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about World AIDS Day . The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different AID preventative ideas. 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.

Handel: The Story of a Little BoyWho Practiced in an Attic Contains a presentation of Handel's life, a summary of facts, a quiz and also a writing activity.

Are you doing a topic on bears? Are you doing a topic on toys? Are you looking for some great photos of different types of teddy bears? I have collected together 30 photos of teddy bears for you to share with your class. This pack contains a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide using these photo flash cards. These activities are quick and fun to do and will improve both your students' memory and vocabulary skills. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different bears being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about teddy bears. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of. The students can then discuss which teddy bear they liked the best and why. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Are you teaching your students about space exploration? Are you looking for a pack of photos to create a display on space or stimulate a discussion and deeper thinking on this topic? I have collected together 17 different images taken from space or the shuttle heading to space. Complete complete with a 31 Teaching Activity Guide to help you get the most out of this purchase. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about space images.

The chronicles of crows: A Tale of the Springtime (1848) - I have included the full poem, complete with the original pictures. I then provide it with the pictures and no words, and then the words and no pictures and finally as a simple CLOZE, where the students need to complete the missing word in the second line of each part of the poem. The pictures without words are a charming Victorian border. The students could write their own Spring poems in this section and make a lovely Spring display. I have always been drawn to crows, not in any dark teenage-poet way, but because they are big, handsome, super-clever, and remind me of the chilly Michigan spring. It seemed so charming at first, with the crows working together, building their homes, laying their eggs and raising their babies in great swooping flocks. But the story takes a ghastly turn as the nearby farmers gather to get rid of the rookery. I kept thinking that the smart, sassy crows would eventually outwit the mean, brutish humans. How wrong I was. The crows are shot and made into pies, even the young ones, and the birds that survive are left to mourn, “How well we know / There is no joy unmixed with woe.” Um, anyway, happy spring, and here’s a Monday assortment of pertinent items to help you get over the sense of mortal dread sinking in your chest after that morbid Victorian warning.

**** Contains a PowerPoint presentation of the book, complete with fun whole class teaching activities ******* Book 26: Sis in the Well New Sounds /sh/ New Words need - Decodable she - Decodable Plot Summary While Sis is showing off, dancing around the top of a well, she slips and falls into the water. Ed the Dog, Will the Elephant, Nan the Parrot, and Ann the Giraffe all try to rescue her but have no luck. Sam finally thinks of using a bucket and Mat provides one. It is Mat who succeeds in pulling Sis out of the well. 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 your students the colour blue? Are you looking for exciting resources? This pack contains 30 photos where the main colour is blue. This is a great way of introducing the colour blue to your class. These are lots of different objects and scenes in the colour of blue. You could print out the photos and laminate them into a bright, eye catching display. Students can use these photo cards to expand their vocabulalry. Let them describe what they see and to express their opinions about each of the photos.

Are you teaching your students about the colour orange. I have put together 30 high quality photos were the main colour in the image is orange. These make a great prompt for discussions about where you can see orange around you. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different orange scenes being shown. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about where we see orange in the world. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different sorts of orange. The students can then discuss how they decided on each type of orange. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing.

Are you looking for photos of aeroplanes? Are you looking for the special floating planes? I have collected together 30 photos of floating aeroplanes. They would make a nice display or be useful in class discussions about unusual forms of transport. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about float aeroplanes. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of float aeroplanes. The students can then discuss the problems and benefits of flying float aeroplanes. 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 clothes being shown in each of the photos. This pack contains a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide using these photo flash cards. These activities are quick and fun to do and will improve both your students' memory and vocabulary skills. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.