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 Grammar Skills
Trace the Letters of the English Alphabet – with Lines (A to E)
Trace the letters below – both upper case (big) and lower case (small) – then copy each pair twice in the free space on the right-hand side.
Test Your Research Skills
Amazing Inventions 3
Here are some questions your student would need to research the answers for...
Write these inventions in order of when they were invented, with the earliest one first:
video recorder
cornflakes
refrigerator
bicycle
Test Your Grammar Skills
Sentence Building 4
Write six sentences using this word order:
article adjective occupation verb (past simple) adverb preposition article room
For example:
The hopeful bank manager walked quietly towards the kitchen.
Tip: don’t forget to start with a capital letter and put a full stop at the end!
Test Your Grammar Skills
Sentence Building 2
Write six sentences using this word order:
article adjective noun verb (past simple) preposition article noun
For example:
The stupid boy sat on the chair.
Tip: don’t forget to start with a capital letter and put a full stop at the end!
Test Your Grammar Skills
Using Modal Verbs 1 – Plans for the Weekend
What are your plans for the weekend?
Make a note in the boxes below of all the things that you might do, could do, should do, must do, can do and will do.
Test Your Vocabulary Skills
Verbs and Synonyms 1
A synonym is a word or phrase that has either the same or a very similar meaning to another word or phrase. For example, ‘wash’ and ‘clean’.
Look at the verbs on the worksheet and find a synonym for it.
Test Your Research Skills
American English 1
Despite most of them having English as their first language, British and American people sometimes use different words to talk about the same things.
Match the British English word on the left with the American English equivalent on the right.
Test Your Creative Writing Skills
Write a Story
Write a story of around 600 words, starting with the following sentence:
Story Title: _________________________________
“It’s enormous!”....
Test Your Reading Skills
Advanced Homophones 1
Example questions...
Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings.
Write an English word that sounds the same as each of these words:
1. heard ___________________________
2. knit ___________________________
3. carrot ___________________________
4. air ___________________________
Comes with an answer sheet.
Test Your Reading Skills
The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger, by Matt Purland
Reading Comprehension 1
Read the story and answer the questions below:
example
The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger, by Matt Purland
There was once a girl who wanted to be grown up like her parents, so she made a special drink that would make her grow, and she did grow. She grew until she was as big as her parents, but she didn’t stop there. She kept on growing until her foot was the size of her house....
Example Questions:
1. How did the girl grow bigger?
2. How did her parents react to her growing bigger?
Answers are included
Test Your Reading Skills
The London Underground – Alphabetical Order
Write these 30 London Underground (Tube) stations in alphabetical order:
South Wimbledon
Ealing Broadway
All Saints
Vauxhall
South Woodford.....
Comes complete with an answer sheet
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Elementary Homophones 3
Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings.
Put together the words that sound the same:
road their waste sale write tide sew
saw wear vain some tail tea too weak
Examples
1. to ___________________________
2. tale ___________________________
3. rode ___________________________
4. sail ___________________________
Contains a worksheet
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
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
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.