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.
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course Elementary Politics (37 pages)
Note: all activities include full answers. For detailed instructions on how to use each activity, please see the Talk a Lot Elementary Handbook, which is included in this teaching pack.
Contents
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Sentence Focus Activities
Sentence Blocks + Extensions
Sentence Blocks – Sentence Stress and Vowel Sounds
Connected Sentence Cards
Connected Sentence Cards – with Consonant and Vowel Sounds
Connected Speech Template
Word Focus Activities
Discussion Words + IPA Version
Discussion Words – Visualisations
Discussion Words Question Sheet
Information Exchange
Multi-Purpose Text:
• Original Text + Spot the Difference
• Gap-Fill + Multiple Choice Questions
• Comprehension Questions + True, False, or Unknown?
• Glossary of New Words
Free Practice Activities
Discussion Questions
Agree or Disagree?
Role Plays + Extensions
Continuous Assessment Tests
Vocabulary Test
Lesson Test
This book was originally in the public domain for free. I spent a considerable amount of time removing all the self promoting hyperlinks to the original free site, as well as adding lots of free, colourful images to each page. This book looks far more professional than the original one and the students will be proud to take it home when it is complete to show their parents.
Lesson 3: Week 2
Title Place Value
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers to 100 and over
know what each digit in a number means.
Mental Warm Up:
What numbers can we make if there are three beads in the tens place on an abacus?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to investigate different numbers that we could make on an abacus.
Educational Challenges
Investigate which two-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Investigate which two-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Investigate which three-digit numbers you can make with six beads and an abacus.
Lesson 4: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers up to and over 100
know what each digit means
use words for comparing and ordering numbers
order numbers up to and over 100.
Mental Warm Up:
Ten children will be given a number card between 0 and 100. What is the number on the card?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to make some numbers and then order them.
Educational Challenges Make two-digit numbers by combining 3, 5 and 9.
Make two-digit numbers by combining 3, 5 and 9. Put the numbers in order.
Try making and ordering two-digit numbers and three-digit numbers.
Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course
A Great Way to Learn How to Really Speak English!
Intermediate Book 1
• Four full-length spoken English courses
• Over 200 hours of quality learning materials!
• Brand new and unique learning method
• Learn to use 8 essential intermediate level verb forms
• Learn real English – idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang!
• Practise using sounds, stress, and connected speech
• 100% photocopiable
As well as the teaching material for each course – around 45 hours in total – this book contains more than 100 pages of additional material which complements the course activities, for use in the classroom or for self-study at home.
This book is for students who are studying from intermediate level (B2/FCE) to advanced level (C1/CAE), although there will also be plenty of good material for students at pre-intermediate level. The main proposal of this book is that intermediate level can come as something of a shock for students who realise that, despite dutifully learning all the basic grammatical forms and vocabulary at elementary level, the English language remains just as unknowable as ever, thanks to the introduction – at intermediate level – of non-literal English
– i.e. idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang. Despite knowing plenty of words with their literal meanings, the goal of fluent communication retreats further into the distance, as the student begins to find coded language wherever they look – English that doesn’t make sense as they know it. For example, they may have learned the vocabulary words “cost”, “arm”, and “leg”, but do they know what it means “to cost an arm and a leg”? (To be very expensive!)
Talk a Lot Intermediate provides plenty of practice with these bewildering forms.
Lesson 1: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
use words about adding
add by partitioning
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
I am thinking of a number. I will give you a clue. What ways can you use to guess?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to break some numbers up into ‘5 and a bit’ to help us with our addition.
Educational Challenges
Solve ‘5 and a bit’ problems.
Differentiate by using different numbers
Lesson 5: Week 2
Title Place Value and Ordering
Learning Objective:
read and write numbers up to and over 100
know what each digit means
use words for comparing and ordering numbers
order numbers up to and over 100.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit with people you do not normally work with. Choose a number with up to three digits and write it down on a piece of paper. Hold it up if it answers my questions.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to compare and order numbers.
Educational Challenges
Order numbers.
Differentiate by different numbers.
Lesson 2: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
know words used in adding
add by partitioning into ‘5 and a bit’
recombine the numbers.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit with children you do not normally work with. On your table is a pen and a big piece of paper. The leader is in charge of the pen.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to continue with our ‘5 and a bit’ work and use it to help us with addition.
Educational Challenges
Work in threes.Take it in turns to throw the dice. Total the three throws using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Work in pairs. Practise adding number sentences using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Work in pairs. Practise adding number sentences using the ‘5 and a bit’ strategy.
Lesson 3: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add and know the words which are used when adding
add teens numbers
understand that adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
My friend and I each have some money. Together we have 20p. How much could we each have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be adding teens numbers together.
Educational Challenges
Add teens numbers together. Use the numbers 11–15. Break into tens and units.
Add teens numbers together. Break into tens and units.
Add larger teens numbers together. Break into tens and units.
Lesson 2: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
solve money word problems
recognise and use different value coins
select the right coins to pay.
Mental Warm Up:
Make these circles into coins.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to show which coins we could use to pay for our items.
Educational Challenges
Choose two items from the café menu. Which coins could you use to pay for your choices? Could you use fewer coins?
Choose two items from the café menu. Use coins to make up the totals.
Choose two items from the café menu. Which coins could you use to pay for your choices?
Lesson 1: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
select and use the right calculation
check our calculations
solve money word problems
find totals.
Mental Warm Up:
Anya has two coins of the same value. What are the possible amounts of money that she could have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be working on finding totals and checking calculations.
Educational Challenges
Choose a drink and another item from the café menu. Choose four possible options. How much would you spend each time?
Choose four different options from the café menu. What is the most and least you could spend?
Lesson 5: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add and use words to do with adding
add a teens number to a two-digit number
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
understand that addition can be carried out in any order
find pairs of numbers that make a given total
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Play ‘Add the Throw’
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to continue our work on adding teens numbers to a two-digit number.
Educational Challenges
Find pairs of numbers that total 49.
Lesson 4: Week 3
Title Understanding Addition and Subtraction
Learning Objective:
add
use the words to describe adding
partition into ‘10 and a bit’
know adding can be done in any order
use patterns of similar calculations.
Mental Warm Up:
Sit in a circle. You will be given a number card 1–19. Put it in front of you. Let everyone see your card.Can you see whose card added to yours would make 20? Put up your hand. Tell me who has the card you need. What number is on it?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be adding a teens number to a two-digit number by breaking them up into tens and ones.
Educational Challenges
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Sort number sentence cards into those which are correct and those which are wrong, using base 10 apparatus.
Practise adding a two-digit number and a teens number. Make up some number sentences of your own.
Lesson 3: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
choose and use correct calculations
check calculations
solve money word problems
find totals and give change.
Mental Warm Up:
What are the different ways I could pay?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to calculate totals and how much change we would need from 50p.
Educational Challenges
Each person must choose two items from the café menu. Who would get the most change from 50p?
If you had 50p to spend on any two items, what would you choose to give you the most change and the least change?
What two items from the café would you have to buy to get exactly 10p change?
Lesson 5: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
make decisions and check calculations
solve money problems
use the appropriate number operation.
Mental Warm Up:
I buy two items that come to a total of 20p. How much could each of the items have cost? Write your answers as addition sentences.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to solve some money problems.
Educational Challenges
Choose two items from the café menu. Put the combinations under headings – ‘Less than 30p’ and ‘More than 30p’.
Find two items that cost a total of 37p, 46p, 47p, 48p and 56p.
Make up some prices for a friend to match to items on the café menu.
Lesson 4: Week 4
Title Money
Learning Objective:
check calculations
say what each coin is
solve money problems.
Mental Warm Up:
Find two items that would cost more than 30p in total.
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to be finding different ways of making an amount of money.
Educational Challenges
Get into pairs with someone from a different maths group.
Find different ways to make 50p.
Use only silver coins.
Record as a ‘spider chart’.
Lesson 5: Week 5
Title Shape and Space
Learning Objective:
recognise and describe how to turn things
recognise half and quarter turns to the left or right
understand the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Mental Warm Up:
What do we know about the number 10? How many ideas about 10 do you have?
Main Lesson Idea:
Today we are going to learn about things that turn and the different turning movements that are possible.
Educational Challenges
Make four identical tiles. Turn them to make a pattern. Use quarter turns. Describe your pattern.
Make four identical tiles. Turn them to make a pattern.
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. . . and welcome to 101 KS2 SATs English Grammar Revision Worksheets! This grammar book perfect KS2 revision material. It’s full of great material for testing your English grammar skills at this level – including question forms, state verbs, phrasal verbs, reported speech, use of articles, error correction, and much more. Many of the worksheets have a special emphasis on using the tenses and structures that you need to practise now, namely past perfect, past perfect continuous, past continuous, present perfect continuous, future continuous, future perfect, and the four conditionals.
This book contains 101 photocopiable worksheets, as well as full answers and notes for use.
This book's original title was Big Grammar Intermediate Book 1. If you have already bought or downloaded this book, please don't buy it again here as you will just be duplicating your purchase.
I love to work through SATs papers are part of my revision program. These two PowerPoints are designed for whole class interaction. All the students need are some whiteboards. Each question is immediately followed by its answer.
This has lots of motivational and organisational benefits. The first is the students get immediate feedback on their ideas and misconceptions, without needing to wait until the end of a test. It also means different students can explain each of their solving strategies to the class and help everyone become more effective learners.
As the answers are straight after the questions, it is possible to simply use these PowerPoints for 5 minutes a day and still get the full benefit as all the questions are immediately solved. This is also a nice way of tutoring students at home. The tutor can then focus on the areas the students to need to work harder in.
Getting ready for the summer Phonics test? Here are two Phonics revision tests from previous years.
I have converted 4 documents into a simple to use PowerPoint.
It starts off with practice words. These include both real and made up words. These help students to revise how to say the words and to prepare them for the test.
This is followed by the practice test. There are 2 levels, a simple level and a trickier level, In each case there are real and made-up words.
This is followed by recommendations on how to say each word. This is followed by the marking sheet.
These PowerPoints are fun, colourful and an easy way to practice the words either with a whole class or one by one with the students. It is also an excellent way for parents to practice with their children at home.
Make phonics testing fun... try this set of PowerPoints today!
I have found a way of making Maths revision a lot more fun. I have combined the official question papers and the official marking schemes into a single document. This means you can ask a question, the students show their answers on mini whiteboards and then as a class, you look at the official answers and look at what the students would have scored. As this is a whole class teaching activity, students can work in pairs or small teams and discuss their ideas and strategies together. This really reduces the level of stress as children are able to build on each others skills.
This teaching resource could be used in the classroom or at home. This teaching resource is a lot of fun and will make a difference to your students attitudes to maths. Keep Maths Fun!
Tell me what you think of this teaching resource in the comments box below!