I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
I am the Head Teacher Of Maria International School Of Bucharest in Romania. I am also very keen at developing different TES teaching resources to discover what works well for different classes. I am constantly looking for new and exciting different ways of presenting and teaching different primary topics, especially maths topics.
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: ________________________
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What’s Your Favourite? 2
A) Write your favourite things below:
Example questions...
1. My favourite colour is: _____________________________
2. My favourite food is: _____________________________
3. My 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 Listening Skills!
The 80 Question Oral Quiz
This is a dictation quiz where you read the numbers, letters and words below, and students write what they hear. It can be adapted by allowing students to dictate to each other:
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...
Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills
Role Playing - Family
1. A Very Big Family!
Scene: Tania meets Jim at the supermarket. Jim is with his brothers and sisters:
Jim: Good morning, Tania. How are you?
Tania: Fine thanks. How about you?
Jim: Oh, I’m not too bad. I’ve got a sore throat and my leg hurts, but apart from that I’m fine.
Tania: Who are all these people? ....
Good introduction to families...
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
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 Speaking & Listening Skills
Finish the Sentences 1
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. I live in a _______________________________________________.
2. My favourite colour is _______________________________________________.
3. I have a dog called _______________________________________________.
Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills
Discussion Starter - Leisure Activities
In a small group, talk about leisure activities and fill in the table below:
Leisure activities that I already do:
Leisure activities that I don’t do but would like to try:
Leisure activities that I would never try:
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
Test Your Spelling Skills
Jobs 1
Add some letters to complete the names of the following jobs:
Examples...
f _ r _ _ r
s _ c r _ _ a r _
_ l e _ _ e r
m _ _ a g _ r
Complete with answers
Test Your Spelling Skills
Read > Cover > Write > Check >
Correct
No. 7 – Countries of the World
To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line:
Example words...
Russia _________________ _________________
Spain _________________ _________________
Canada _________________ _________________
Test Your Spelling Skills
Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct
No. 5 – Family Words
To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line:
Example words
brother _________________ _________________
grandparents _________________ _________________
niece _________________ _________________
husband _________________ _________________
Test Your Spelling Skills
Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct
No. 4 – Colours
To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line:
Example words...
green _________________ _________________
blue _________________ _________________
orange _________________ _________________