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Back-To-The-Board style class guessing game. Work in teams to give clues to your team-mate to guess the word but you cannot say certain words.

A useful information sheet which walks students through how to write a PEEZL paragraph, then giving an example paragraph and sentence starters. There is then an activity for students to identify the correct parts of a paragraph to sort to make a PEEZL paragraph. This should help students to feel more confident creating their own PEEZL paragraphs.

An engaging PPT to help students identify good presentation skills. There are some slides at the end to help students think of an idea for creating their own TED Talk. This lesson was given after the students had already watched and understood a TED Talk.

A 37-page activity booklet which can be used for class tasks, independent study or homework. There are some pre-reading questions to discuss, then activities done chapter by chapter following the book including a creative writing task for each chapter. There are After Reading activities and While You’re Waiting Tasks. Tasks are designed to check comprehension and understanding, encourage PEEZL and develop writing skills, figurative writing techniques, build and develop vocabulary range and knowledge, as well as games to be fun and engaging. There are links to literacy skills. Answers are not included but are all taken from the Coraline novel. Students can use this to help them find the answers.

Example sentences for students to sort into the correct groups for persuasive writing with AFOREST features. There are categories for Alliteration, Facts, Opinions, Repetition, Rhetorical Questions, Emotive Language, Statistics and The rule of Three. Answers are not included as some sentences may fall into more than one category and it can be a good opportunity for debate in feedback.

A PPT to guide students through hours worth of tasks connected to analysing poverty and inequality from different perspectives.

A PowerPoint which includes a game for students to identify vocabulary for hobbies, creating questions about hobbies, identify collocations for hobbies, and creating sentences using adverbs of frequency about freetime and hobbies.

A bumper PPT with approximately 12+ hours work. This covered the whole topic of Human Rights in Global Perspectives for a full term. It looks at Human Rights in general before considering religious freedom, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights in more detail. The PPT also covers key skills such as note-taking and referencing. There is then the opportunity for students to bring this together with a mini case study on North Korea at the end. The students will need their own copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but this is easily available on the Internet.

Prompting questions for someone observing an experienced teacher. Designed for someone doing Assessment Only Route to QTS, or a teacher analysing another teacher’s class for professional development PDR. Could also be really useful for new teachers, future teachers or trainee teachers.

A PPT Team Game. Seat one person with their back to the board. The other students try to communicate what’s on the board using only body language and gestures. A great ice breaker for an international classroom, especially for lower levels.

A PowerPoint to discuss gender stereotypes held individually or held by society. A link to a video, and some statistics of some consequences of gender stereotypes.

A PPT which guides students through identifying the different functions of different emails, inntroducing useful phrases and sentence starters for different purposes. Students also consider formal and informal language and opening and closing phrases.

A worksheet designed for a 1:1 literacy class with a primary student. Aimed to develop reading comprehension, story telling and writing skills. Would work well within a young learner EAL classroom too.

A guide which helps break down the PET Writing mark scheme making it easier for students to self-mark or peer assess, help new teachers to the Preliminary course or just help teachers speed up their marking and simplify their feedback. Focusing only on Email and Article - not the story. Designed for the post-2020 updated course.

A short presentation on the power of laughter for the body and soul. A brief introduction to laughter yoga and encouragement to try. Should be a good start to the day with students finding funny. Used for a small school assembly roughly 80 students. Could last between 10-20 minutes.

A puzzle where students match questions to the answers. Ideal for ESL students learning question forms. A1

A simple worksheet for identifying whether to use ‘is’ or ‘has’ when describing people’s appearance.

Worksheet where students read sentences describing a room and identify which photograph the sentence is describing. Useful for furniture vocabulary and prepositions. ESL A2.