Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
Ideal resource for the teacher preparing students for exams or a ready guide for students writing a narrative as an assignment or class task.
How students benefit even more is:
Saves time for students writing a narrative as they have a quick guide.
Provides a sound structure for writing a narrative.
Provides a ready reference for students who are inundated with other genres to understand.
Helps the new student unfamiliar with this genre to write more effectively.
This is an opportunity for a teacher to hone the skills of their students in figurative language.
How the student improves their skills is by
observing models of matching phrases with their meanings
matching phrases with meanings to affirm understanding
Have you examined the factors businesses consider for overseas expansion?
This PPT is not just a collection of viewpoints but an insight to practical considerations by businesses in taking the step to expand overseas.
What the student learns is:
The factors that a business could consider when deciding which country to locate operations in.
Factors affecting Manufacturing, Service and other Tertiary Sector businesses.
An insight to the China Scene- not the flavour of the month
Personal experiences of the author in regard to overseas expansion
The role of legal controls on location decisions.
This is a concise coverage of the costs aspects of production that will make learning so much easier for students. A brief reference is made to break even analysis to whet the students’ appetite for more.
The concepts of fixed, variable, total costs and average costs are clearly explained to assist students understanding.
Examples are used to clarify meaning of the different costs.
Diagrammatic representation of fixed, variable and total costs are provided to enhance understanding of these costs.
Break even analysis is simply explained to help students’ understanding.
Been troubled by students writing the same bland sentences all the time? Like they start sentences with the same word regularly so it loses momentum or flow. Here is a helpful guide to at least start sentences with different word types or parts of speech. So, what you receive are:
*Teach students different ways to combine sentences with different beginning words.
Show how sentences are more impressive when the beginning words are changed.
Imbue in your students routines to follow to change their sentences.
Five Activities for students to transform sentences.
Tim Winton has written a short novel oozing with masterful language. For the student to capture this involves an analysis of the figurative language and imagery he has created in this wonderful ode about the sea. To accomplish this is not always an easy task. This study aid through a series of tables to collate information makes this process so much easier.
The student gains the following benefits from the author’s purpose:
• Creating vivid imagery:
Figurative language helps readers visualize what is happening in a piece of writing, making it more engaging and memorable.
• Evoking emotions:
By using descriptive language and figures of speech, authors can stir up strong feelings in the reader, creating a deeper emotional connection with the text.
• Adding depth and complexity:
Figurative language can convey complex ideas and emotions that might be difficult to express literally.
• Making writing more engaging:
Figurative language can make writing more fun to read and more memorable, similar to how spices make food tastier.
• Connecting with the reader:
Figurative language can help the author connect with the reader on a deeper level, making the writing feel more personal and relevant.
• Adding humor:
Figurative language can be used to create humor, making writing more entertaining and engaging.
• Highlighting symbolism:
Figurative language can be used to create symbols that carry both literal and figurative meanings, adding layers of meaning to the text.
• Revealing character traits:
Figurative language can be used to reveal character traits, such as personality or motivations.
• Describing objects and settings:
Figurative language can be used to describe objects and settings in a more vivid and imaginative way, making them more memorable.
Expecting your student to understand inferences in comprehension passages or reading from a novel is a fallacy. What this lesson plan offers is a:
Support to the learning of inference questions
Comprehensive exercises to support understanding of inference questions
Explanations of intended meanings
This is a formidable lesson for analysing poetry using poetic devices. How do you benefit as a teacher using this package?
• Saving time preparing lessons as this is at least one lesson.
• The explanation of poetry is easy for students to understand as it is concise.
• Valuable tools for analysing poetry.
• Important poetic devices that students can grasp.
• A number of exercises to explain poetic devices.
• A wordsearch to entrench the learning of poetic devices
• Satisfaction that the students have sufficient information to analyse poems effectively.
Students need guidance on how to write different genres. A most helpful strategy is to provide scaffolding.
In this resource teachers are helped by the provision of scaffolding for Narrative and Argumentative Writing.
How the teacher is helped is through:
Time saving as no need to design a scaffold
A supportive framework for student learning to plan an essay
A foundation for structuring an essay
Appreciation of different formats for writing different genres.
This is a bundle of 22 games designed to help the teacher explain concepts in
English in a fun way. The gains for the students are innumerable.
insights to learning more effectively
understanding grammar, vocabulary and writing in a clearer way
becoming more knowledgeable about points of English study
provide fun in learning
overcome the fear of learning about difficult aspects of the English language
This is a challenging vocabulary activity for senior students.
Students are introduced to high calibre words that would not be commonly used in writing pieces.
This activity helps the student:
In identifying new words to provide sophistication to their writing
Broadens their vocabulary immensely
This is a fine revision lesson for the Primary School teacher who wants to challenge students on grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
The student learns:
to improve their grammar
to punctuate better
to broaden their vocabulary range
identify figurative language devices
This is the ultimate vocabulary activity for the high calibre student who wants to improve his/ her vocabulary. What a student receives is::
a number of rich words that need to be matched with their meaning.
two activities that involve matching
flexible learning where the student can convert these new words into sentences
compendium of vocabulary words
Reordering sentences is a complex task for many students. In this challenge students learn how to:
understand the meaning of sentences
understand the use of cohesive ties in sentences and between sentences
understand the need to sequence sentences properly for effect.
understand how to write a cohesive piece of writing that flows.
A PPT that covers two lessons and has a major case study as an activity for your students to complete. What is on offer?
A valuable resource that will guide your students to understand concepts and use these concepts in activities.
By the end of the lessons your students will have learnt :
how business activity can impact on the environment like global warming.
the concepts of externalities and sustainability and their application to business operations. Students complete a case study to affirm understanding.
how and why businesses react to environmental pressures and opportunities- examining the influence of the community and pressure groups on business decision making
the role of legal controls over business activity affecting the environment like pollution controls
ethical issues a business might face like conflicts between making profits and ethical business practice and reactions and responses to child labour.
This lesson combines the techniques of technology in production and analysis of production methods to improve productivity. The student is challenged by exam style questions. Students learn:
how to answer exam style questions about production.
the various technology techniques to improve productivty in production.
the ways to produce efficiently by reducing wastage to induce productivity.
to analyse the best production types to utilise in different scenarios.
The outcome for students from this lesson is to understand best production practice and how to always strive for productivity improvement.
Give your English classes a vocabulary boost with a range of activities on antonyms and synonym, prefixes and suffixes, word fromation and words used in context. Six worksheets bundled into one package could act as a supplement to a lesson/s or as standalone lessons. If you take the standalone path, these worksheets could be used over three lessons depending on how you apply them to your lesson.
So the benefits are:
save time on lesson preparation
ready made worksheets
a fine range of worksheets to bolster students’ vocabulary
covers at least three lessons of work
This is a superb resource as it combines understanding concepts with a matching of terms and meanings and affirming understanding of these concepts with creative activities.
The student will learn:
all the major concepts associated with this topic
to affirm understanding through creative activities
to appreciate the intricacies of the various production methods and their application to businesses.
A grand finale to the marketing mix component of the Business Studies Course A most suitable PPT that covers the impact of technology on the economy. Also, in the same vein how it impacts on the 4Ps in marketing .
By the end of the lesson your students will have learnt :
The relationship between technology and the 4Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion
About the concept of ecommerce
The advantages and disadvantages of ecommerce for business
The advantages and disadvantages of ecommerce for consumers
The advantages and disadvantages of the internet for businesses and consumers.
Therefore, you have a succint PPT for instant application in the classroom.
This is a comprehensive coverage of the topic of Motivating Employees. It is the ideal PPT for teaching all aspects of this topic. This teacher support of 22 slides IS REALLY TWO LESSONS. It addresses:
why people work and what motivation means
the benefits of a well - motivated workforce
the concept of human needs- Maslow’s Hierarchy
key motivational theories - Taylor and Herzberg
financial motivators like wages, salaries, bonuses, commission and profit sharing
non- financial methods of motivation like job rotation, job enrichment, team work , training and opportunities for promotion.