Stuck with your tutor group for an extra hour because...reasons...? Have a last lesson planned, run it and the students love it. Then suddenly Christmas lunch is cancelled and you see the same group again? Students demand that you have a 'fun' lesson but you just...well...didn't plan it? Here is a set of ideas that are just pick up and go. Really. Just give yourself 5 minutes before the lesson and have a Merry Christmas one and all.

Worksheet for KS2 Pronouns

Worksheet for KS2 to help students identify verbs and nouns

Verb grammar poster

Poster for countable and uncountable nouns

Poster for countable and uncountable nouns

Worksheet for countable and uncountable nouns.

A role play based around the chaos around the 2017 Oscars. Fantastic for tutor time, thinking positively and looking forwards. This can also be used as part of a citizenship program, and also as a starter for English classes.

Noun grammar poster

A fantastic set of resources that go together to make a great lesson or series of lessons. The timeline can be used as a primer or display for your classroom. Students can link what they know into British values in the brainstorm. You might like to play Churchill’s speech and get students to follow along using the supplied resource. Students can then imagine what it might have been like being a soldier. Students can colour the Union Jack as then discover why people dressed in Red White and Blue for VE day, and mark the different sides in the Second World War using the supplied map.

Designed for KS3 or high ability KS2 in Citizenship, English or Tutor groups. Contains worksheet, presentation, quiz, activities and more! The OECD announced that schools should teach people how to identify fake news. This lesson resource does just that.