park meaningful conversation and critical thinking about health, wellness, and mental wellbeing with 50 engaging prompts! These discussion and writing questions encourage students to explore topics like physical health, mental health, diet, exercise, and the impact of technology on wellbeing. Perfect for building speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills in ESL, Health Education, Biology, or PSHE lessons.
Get your students talking deeply about what it means to be healthy in today’s world with this no-prep Health & Wellness resource. These thought-provoking questions invite learners to reflect on their own habits, cultural perspectives, and opinions about health challenges and solutions.
With 50 carefully crafted questions, this set is ideal for sparking pair or group discussions, writing responses, or classroom debates. Students will engage with issues such as exercise routines, mental health awareness, traditional vs. modern medicine, health policy, and the role of diet and lifestyle in overall wellness.
Designed for flexible use in pair work, small groups, or whole-class formats, these prompts support oral communication, vocabulary development, and analytical skills across various subjects.
Topics Covered Include:
Physical health and exercise habits
Mental health practices and stress management
Nutrition, diet myths, and balanced eating
Healthcare systems, ethics, and access
The influence of culture and technology on health
Public health debates: vaccines, smoking bans, and more
Coping strategies and support for mental wellbeing
What’s Included:
50 printable discussion and writing prompt cards
Editable PowerPoint slideshow for easy projection or gallery walks
Pair discussion sheets for partner activities
Teacher guide with suggested uses, warm-up ideas, and flexible formats
All materials use the same question set for consistent classroom delivery.
Why You’ll Love These Health & Wellness Prompts:
Ready to use with minimal prep—great for discussions, writing tasks, starter activities, or debates
Encourages thoughtful dialogue about health topics relevant to students’ lives
Supports ESL vocabulary building and critical thinking
Ideal for Health, Science, ESL, or PSHE classes
Great For:
Speaking and Writing Activities
ESL, Health Education, Biology, or PSHE Classes
Mental Health and Wellness Units
Starter or plenary activities, journal prompts
Substitute Teacher Plans and Speaking Practice
Get your students moving, thinking, and talking with this engaging English Four Corners Activity!
Perfect for back-to-school, brain breaks, or anytime you want to build classroom community, this interactive activity helps students express their opinions, reflect on their reading and writing habits, and connect with classmates - all through content that is meaningful and standards-aligned.
This resource includes twenty thought-provoking questions across four key categories: Reading, Writing, Literary Analysis, and Just for Fun.
Each question gives students four multiple-choice options and invites them to move to the corner of the classroom that best represents their answer - making it active, collaborative, and discussion-rich.
This Four Corners English resource:
Gets students out of their seats and actively participating
Builds classroom community and encourages respectful dialog
Sparks discussion around core English concepts
Works for middle and high school students
No prep - just project and go!
What is Included:
Editable presentation with twenty questions in four categories: Reading, Writing, Analysis, and Just for Fun
Detailed Teacher Guide with follow-up questions for every slide to extend the discussion, support critical thinking, and build engagement
Flexible Use - great for the first week of school, advisory, early finisher activities, or content-related review days
Use this English Four Corners Activity to:
Kick off the school year with engaging, low-pressure discussion
Reinforce key reading and writing skills through meaningful questions
Learn more about your students - personalities, preferences, and thinking styles
Create a fun and inclusive classroom culture from day one
If you are looking for an easy way to combine movement, conversation, and English content, this resource is your new go-to!
Start the school year off strong with this engaging Back-to-School ELA Bundle — a big collection of interactive, no-prep activities to help your students build connections, feel comfortable, and get excited about your English Language Arts class from the very first bell!
Whether you’re teaching middle or high school, these activities are ready to go and easy to implement, helping you create a warm, connected, and academically focused classroom right from the start.
What’s Included in This Must-Have ELA Bundle?
This versatile pack offers a variety of icebreakers and creative prompts to support classroom community, communication skills, and ELA content from day one.
**Four Corners: Getting-to-Know-You Activity **
This movement-based icebreaker gets students up, thinking, and talking. Students pick a corner that reflects their opinion or preference and share their reasoning. It’s a fun, low-pressure way to build relationships and classroom culture.
**Back-to-School ELA Discussion Cards
**Designed to promote critical thinking and reflection, these ELA-focused question cards work well in pairs, small groups, or class-wide discussions. They touch on topics like reading habits, writing goals, classroom expectations, and personal expression.
**Would You Rather: Speaking Icebreaker Cards
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Get students talking with fun and sometimes thought-provoking “Would You Rather” questions. Perfect for warm-ups or quick class breaks, these cards encourage students to explain their reasoning and connect with peers in a lighthearted way.
**This or That Game – General Edition **
An easy, no-prep favorite! Students choose between two options and justify their choices. It’s a great way to uncover shared interests and help students feel seen and heard — while having fun!
This or That Game – ELA Edition
Put an ELA twist on the classic game! Students pick between genres, writing styles, literary elements, and more. A playful way to preview course content and explore student interests in English.
This bundle is:
Interactive & Student-Centered – Activities that promote movement, conversation, and meaningful engagement
Low-Prep & Easy to Use – Ready to print and teach, perfect for busy teachers during back-to-school
Flexible & Adaptable – Use for icebreakers, discussion starters, sub plans, or ongoing community building
Middle & High School Friendly – Appropriately challenging and age-relevant
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Start your first week of ELA classes with purpose and engagement from Day 1! This set of Back to School Task Cards is perfect for breaking the ice, building classroom community, and encouraging student voice in your English classroom.
This resource includes 5 sets of task cards, each with 10 thought-provoking, open-ended prompts that help students explore who they are as readers, writers, thinkers, and learners.
Designed for middle school and high school ELA, these activities go beyond icebreakers - they build community, spark discussion, and give you valuable insight into your students’ relationship with English Language Arts.
What’s Inside?
50 task cards
Teacher guide with ideas
These color-coded cards feature 5 unique categories to help students reflect, share, and get excited about English class:
Reading Reflections
Let’s Talk Writing
Words Matter
Storytelling in Everyday Life
English Class and Me
Each category invites students to speak or write about their personal experiences, ideas, and attitudes toward reading, writing, and language learning. These prompts are versatile and work great for pair work, whole class discussions, bell ringers, exit tickets, or writing warm-ups.
Perfect for:
First day of school or first week of school
Middle and high school ELA classrooms
English warm-ups, bell ringers, or journal prompts
Getting-to-know-you activities with academic depth
ESL/ELL students practicing reading and writing reflection
Skills & themes covered:
Reading habits, genre preferences, and favorite characters
Creative and academic writing attitudes
Vocabulary use, grammar opinions, and punctuation
Storytelling in real life - presentations, podcasts, advertising
Self-awareness in English class and goal setting for the year
Set the tone for a creative, reflective, and student-centered ELA classroom -starting from the very first day of school. These back-to-school English Language Arts worksheets help your students reconnect with reading, writing, and their own voice.
This comprehensive bundle offers everything you need for teaching your students how to write film reviews:
the review writing presentation focuses on genre conventions of reviews, the audience, purpose, language and structure of reviews in general
the film vocabulary presentation gives definitions and examples of different words and expressions used for describing and evaluating movies
**Review writing presentation (text features, language, structure)
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There is a lot that goes into writing a review, and it can be hard to find a comprehensive resource that covers all the basic elements of this type of text, include genre conventions and text features, language characteristics and typical review structure.
Well, this presentation might just be what you’re looking for!
With more than 50 slides, it provides in-depth information about various aspects of review writing.
The presentation helps student learn about:
Text features of reviews:
Audience (typical audiences for different types of reviews)
Purpose (why we write reviews and how they help people)
Tailoring the review to the target audience (how to adapt the tone, content and examples in the review to different audiences)
Register (formal, informal and neutral reviews and their characteristics)
Subjectivity (how subjective opinions shape reviews)
Facts and evidence (the need to corroborate opinions with verified facts and evidence)
Audience engagement (how to get and keep the attention of the target audience)
Language of reviews:
Descriptive language (how descriptive language helps improve the quality of the review)
Persuasive language (how persuasive appeals and techniques help improve the quality of the review)
Jargon and specialist terminology (when and why they may be used)
Vivid verbs and adjectives (how they help make the review more informative and persuasive)
Evaluative lexis (what types of evaluative lexis can be used to express opinions about the subject of the review)
Structure of reviews:
Typical review structure (title, introduction, evaluation and analysis, conclusion, rating)
Title (what is its purpose and what techniques to use to achieve that purpose)
Introduction (key elements of the introduction and their purpose)
Evaluation and analysis (key elements in the main part and their purpose:
Conclusion (the purpose and form of a well-written conclusion
Learning about these various elements of review writing helps prepare students for their future academic studies and career by helping them develop critical thinking skills, research and communication skills and opinion formation. These skills are crucial for their future careers as they help them form informed opinions based on solid research and articulate them in a clear and persuasive manner.
Film review vocabulary presentation
Do your students still describe a movie they watched as “good” or “bad”?
Reading the same vague and bland movie reviews over and over again is a problem we’ve all encountered at some point, but getting students to write better reviews can be a difficult task.
Writing a film review at a higher level requires students to know and use more advanced vocabulary for describing and evaluating movies.
This means knowing how to describe the main elements of the movie, including the plot, characters, cinematography, music and visual effects, and understanding how to express positive and negative opinions about different elements of the movie.
This 32-slide presentation helps students learn just that, without requiring any additional preparation by the teacher.
The presentation includes easy-to-understand definitions and realistic examples that showcase how the given words and expressions are used in film reviews.
The presentation focuses on words and expressions for:
movie genres
general film vocabulary
types of movies
types of characters
describing the plot
describing acting
describing visual effects and music
positive reviews
negative reviews
Engage your students in an immersive and thought-provoking Chemical Spill in a Factory Role-Play! This resource is designed to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. Perfect for ESL, ELA, and science classes, this activity transforms your classroom into a high-stakes scenario where students must collaborate to survive.
What’s Included:
Scenario Overview: A description of the chemical spill emergency.
Role Cards: Six unique roles (Leader, Safety Officer, Medic, Technician, Evacuation Specialist, Communication Specialist) with specific responsibilities and challenges.
Teacher Guide: Instructions for setup, facilitation, and debriefing.
**Why You’ll Love It:
Ready-to-Use: No prep required – just print and go!
Student-Centered: Encourages collaboration, empathy, and active participation.
Versatile: Ideal for middle school, high school, ESL, ELA, or science classes.
Skill-Building: Develops critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills while reinforcing vocabulary.**
How It Works:
Students take on roles and work together to decide whether to evacuate or wait for help.
They analyze risks, debate options, and create a survival plan.
After the role-play, students reflect on their decisions and discuss what they learned.
Engage your intermediate and upper-intermediate ESL students with these Environmental Role-Play Scenarios Task Cards! This no-prep resource includes 10 real-world scenarios focusing on environmental challenges like sustainability, pollution, and conservation. Perfect for teaching conflict resolution, collaboration, and critical thinking, these task cards help students practice speaking and listening skills through engaging role-plays. Ideal for high school to adult learners.
Scenarios included:
Deforestation debate
Plastic ban
Intenational climate conference
Family vacation
Influencer’s ethical crisis
Fast fashion factory pollution
Car purchase: gas or electric
Urban green space vs. affordable housing
Neighborhood compost war
Going plant-based
Includes:
10 Color and B&W scenarios and role cards
Teacher instructions
Why Teachers & Learners Love These:
→ Boosts Confidence – Students speak naturally about relevant global topics.
→ Teaches Persuasion & Compromise – Roleplays cover debates, negotiations, and teamwork.
→ Zero-Prep & Adaptable – Use for warm-ups, full lessons, or assessments.
Perfect for ESL/Business English teachers seeking interactive, low-prep activities to teach professional communication skills. These 30 role-play cards help intermediate-advanced students practice resolving common workplace conflicts through collaborative problem-solving.
What’s included:
12 workplace scenarios (e.g., micromanagers, missed deadlines, cultural misunderstandings)
Two versions: color + printer-friendly B/W
Teacher guide with step-by-step instructions
Student self-assessment checklist (promotes metacognition)
Why teachers love this resource:
Relevant: Prepares students for real office dynamics
Flexible: Use for warm-ups, assessments, or sub plans
Engaging: Encourages critical thinking and empathy
Scaffolded: Supports both shy and advanced learners
Ideal for:
High school & adult ESL
Business English courses
Workplace readiness programs
Life skills classes
Looking for an engaging way to teach critical thinking, communication, and digital responsibility?This no-prep resource includes 10 real-world scenarios tackling social media challenges like online privacy, misinformation, cyberbullying, and digital well-being. These scenarios challenge students to navigate real-world online dilemmas, practice problem-solving, and develop essential life skills for responsible digital citizenship.
Scenarios included:
Cyberbullying
Limiting social media time
Impact of social media on self-esteem
Workplace conflict over a social media post
Meeting a mystery online crush
Faking a perfect life on social media
Oversharing
Spreading misinformation online
Debate about online privacy
Online challenge risk discussion
Includes:
10 Color and B&W scenarios and role cards
Teacher instructions
The end of the school year can be chaotic — students are distracted, energy is low, and meaningful lesson planning feels like a challenge. If you’re looking for a low-prep, high-impact activity that keeps students engaged while encouraging reflection and connection, this End-of-Year Discussion Questions Pack is your perfect solution.
Designed for middle school and high school, this versatile resource helps students wrap up the year with purpose through thoughtful conversations — no extra planning or grading required.
Included in the Resource:
60 end-of-year discussion cards: One question per card, covering a wide range of topics reflecting on the past school year, looking forward to the next one, and discussing school life in general
*** Pair discussion worksheets**: Designed for two students to take turns answering and discussing the questions, encouraging interactive and collaborative speaking practice
Presentation slides: The same questions for easy projection, perfect for a gallery walk or group discussion format
*** Teacher guide:** With suggestions for various activities, including how to organize pair discussions, lead class-wide conversations, and use the resource effectively
Engages students in reflection, critical thinking, and meaningful conversation
Supports community-building and communication skills
Perfect for in-person or virtual classrooms
Easy to prep – print, project, or assign digitally
Note: The different formats (cards, pair worksheets, presentation) all include the same 60 questions.
This comprehensive resource includes 40 discussion/writing task cards focusing on the most important aspects of Orwell’s Animal Farm.
The cards cover key aspects of the book, including:
themes of totalitarianism, social equality, fear, propaganda, surveillance and control;
how the book reflects real life
analysis of major characters
analysis of major symbols in the story
The questions are designed to foster critical thinking and require students to engage with the text and find evidence for their claims.
Whether you’re looking for a resource that will get your students speaking about the book, or one filled with engaging and thought-provoking writing prompts, this set of task cards is just what you need!
The questions are designed to foster critical thinking and require students to engage with the text and find evidence for their claims.
Back to school season has you stressing out? How about an engaging, non-cringy, ELA-related getting-to-know-you ice breaker that can get middle and high schoolers talking in an instant without any additional prep from the teacher?
That’s exactly what this icebreaker game is. This or That ELA Edition presents a series of questions focusing on different ELA topics. For each question, students choose one of the options (e.g. Fiction or Non-fiction? Shakespeare or modern playwrights?) Then, they need to discuss their choices with their classmates (in pairs, groups or as a whole class).
The resource includes:
presentation with 20 questions
teacher’s instructions
The combination of lighthearted and thought-provoking questions helps create an inclusive environment and helps students feel at ease, while also providing meaningful topics for deeper discussions that revolve around ELA topics.
This is a no-prep activity. All the resources you need are included in the ZIP file.
Back to school season has you stressing out? How about an engaging, non-cringy, zero awkwardness getting-to-know-you ice breaker that can get middle and high schoolers talking in an instant without any additional prep from the teacher?
That’s exactly what this icebreaker game is.
This or That presents a series of questions. For each question, students choose one of the options (e.g. Summer or Winter? Casual or Formal?) Then, they need to discuss their choices with their classmates (in pairs, groups or as a whole class).
The resource includes:
presentation with 30 questions
teacher’s instructions
The combination of lighthearted and thought-provoking questions helps create an inclusive environment and helps students feel at ease, while also providing meaningful topics for deeper discussions.
This is a no-prep activity. All the resources you need are included
FREE A Level English Language Glossary – Key Linguistic Terminology for Paper 4 (9093)
Help your students boost their grades with this essential glossary of linguistic terminology.
This printable, student-friendly reference sheet includes precise and formal vocabulary needed to discuss key issues related to:
English as a global language
Language and identity
Language and power
Language imperialism, endangerment, and death
Whether students are writing about bilingual education, World Englishes, language policy, or linguistic discrimination, this glossary supports them in writing sophisticated, theory-informed responses with confidence.
Tired of students saying a movie was just “good” or “bad”?
Teach them to write rich, detailed, and insightful film reviews with this ready-to-use presentation focused on film review vocabulary!
This 32-slide presentation helps them describe **key movie elements like plot, characters, cinematography, music, and visual effects, **and express positive and negative opinions with confidence. With easy-to-understand definitions and realistic examples, students will learn film-specific terms for genres, character types, acting, and more. Perfect for high school to adult learners, this resource requires no additional prep—just project and teach!
Students will learn vocabulary to describe:
Movie genres
Types of films and characters
Plot structure and storytelling
Acting and character development
Cinematography and visual effects
Soundtrack and music
How to write positive and negative reviews
Whether you’re teaching ESL/EFL, ELA, or film analysis, this presentation is perfect for building the vocabulary students need to express their opinions, evaluations, and critiques more fluently.
Dreaming of having a writing class where all students are actively engaged, practicing their creative writing skills? This set of story dice, created for short story writing, is the creative spice your class needs!
These story dice are an excellent way to get all student writing and developing a better understanding of how elements like character development, plot and tone contribute to the effectiveness of their stories.
What are storytelling dice?
Storytelling dice are a versatile and interactive tool used to inspire and facilitate creative storytelling.
They consist of small cubes with words on each face, related to characters, settings, plot elements, emotions, and more.
Students roll the dice, and the words that appear facing up are used as prompts to create a story.
What does this set offer?
The set consists of 5 dice with 6 prompts on each die.
The color-coded dice each focus on one of the following elements:
characters
plot elements
setting
emotions
ending
The set also includes detailed teacher instructions.
in this set, the elements have been written in such a way that they are suitable for general short story writing, with the possibility of writing in a variety of different genres.
The prompts help students overcome writer’s block by offering them an engaging starting point for writing their stories. This helps turn even the most reluctant writers into storytellers.
With numerous possibilities for combination of different elements, no story will ever be the same.
Dreaming of having a writing class where all students are actively engaged, practicing their creative writing skills? This set of story writing dice, created for dystopian fiction writing, is the creative spice your class needs!
These storytelling dice are an excellent way to get all student writing and developing a better understanding of how elements like character development, plot and tone contribute to the effectiveness of their stories.
**What are storytelling dice?
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Storytelling dice are a versatile and interactive tool used to inspire and facilitate creative storytelling.
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They consist of small cubes with words on each face, related to characters, settings, plot elements, emotions, and more.
Students roll the dice, and the words that appear facing up are used as prompts to create a story.
**What does this set offer?
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The set consists of 5 dice with 6 prompts on each die.
The color-coded dice each focus on one of the following elements:
character development
plot elements
setting
emotions
ending
All the elements have been written in such a way that they reflect the convention of the dystopian genre and enable students to craft engaging stories.
The prompts help students overcome writer’s block by offering them an engaging starting point for writing their stories. This helps turn even the most reluctant writers into storytellers.
With numerous possibilities for combination of different elements, no story will ever be the same.
Reviews are a challenging form of persuasive writing for many students.
There is a lot that goes into writing a review, and it can be hard to find
a comprehensive resource that covers all the basic elements of this type of text, include genre conventions and text features, language characteristics and typical review structure.
Well, this presentation might just be what you’re looking for!
With more than 50 slides, it provides in-depth information about various aspects of review writing.
The presentation helps student learn about:
Text features of reviews:
Audience (typical audiences for different types of reviews)
Purpose (why we write reviews and how they help people)
Tailoring the review to the target audience (how to adapt the tone, content and examples in the review to different audiences)
Register (formal, informal and neutral reviews and their characteristics)
Subjectivity (how subjective opinions shape reviews)
Facts and evidence (the need to corroborate opinions with verified facts and evidence)
Audience engagement (how to get and keep the attention of the target audience)
Language of reviews:
Descriptive language (how descriptive language helps improve the quality of the review)
Persuasive language (how persuasive appeals and techniques help improve the quality of the review)
Jargon and specialist terminology (when and why they may be used)
Vivid verbs and adjectives (how they help make the review more informative and persuasive)
Evaluative lexis (what types of evaluative lexis can be used to express opinions about the subject of the review)
Structure of reviews:
Typical review structure (title, introduction, evaluation and analysis, conclusion, rating)
Title (what is its purpose and what techniques to use to achieve that purpose)
Introduction (key elements of the introduction and their purpose)
Evaluation and analysis (key elements in the main part and their purpose:
Conclusion (the purpose and form of a well-written conclusion
Learning about these various elements of review writing helps prepare students for their future academic studies and career by helping them develop critical thinking skills, research and communication skills and opinion formation. These skills are crucial for their future careers as they help them form informed opinions based on solid research and articulate them in a clear and persuasive manner.
Do your students still describe a movie they watched as “good” or “bad”?
Reading the same **vague and bland **movie reviews over and over again is a problem we’ve all encountered at some point, but getting students to write better reviews can be a difficult task.
Writing a film review at a higher level requires students to know and use more advanced vocabulary for describing and evaluating movies.
This means knowing how to describe the main elements of the movie, including the plot, characters, cinematography, music and visual effects, and understanding how to **express positive and negative opinions **about different elements of the movie.
This 32-slide presentation helps students learn just that, without requiring any additional preparation by the teacher.
The presentation includes** easy-to-understand definitions and realistic examples **that showcase how the given words and expressions are used in film reviews.
The presentation focuses on words and expressions for:
movie genres
general film vocabulary
types of movies
types of characters
describing the plot
describing acting
describing visual effects and music
positive reviews
negative reviews
This phenomenal bundle provides you with the materials to teach and practice 12 different persuasive techniques, their definitions, examples and effects.
The bundle consists of:
presentation with detailed information about each of the 12 persuasive techniques (with detailed teacher’s notes)
matching cards that enable students to revise and practice what they learned in the presentation
Together, these two resources help your students learn about persuasive techniques quickly and effectively.
PRESENTATION
For successful argumentative writing and analysis, students need to be very familiar with persuasive devices.
This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:
alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.
The techniques are organized into a simple, easy-to-remember acronym:
A RIPE FOREST.
The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.
This helps students understand:
what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.
MATCHING CARDS
Understanding the definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing. Students often struggle to grasp these concepts and apply that knowledge in their own writing and analysis. This set of matching cards that can be used for revision and practice is an excellent way to your students build a strong foundation in understanding how different persuasive devices work.
The set focuses on the following persuasive techniques (contained in the acronym A RIPE FOREST):
alliteration
anecdote
rhetorical questions
imperative
personal pronouns
exaggeration/hyperbole
facts
opinions
repetition
emotive language
statistics
triplets/list of three
The set consists of:
12 technique cards
12 definition cards
36 example cards (three for each technique)
27 effects cards (some effects can apply to several different techniques)