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
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.
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.
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?
**
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:
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)
If your students struggle with reading and writing articles, you need a go-to resource that can help them integrate knowledge and skills to help them finally understand this informational text type. Now you finally have it!
This bundle combines theory and practice to help your students learn to read and write articles effectively.
The bundle consists of an informative presentation and an engaging article analysis stations activity.
Presentation
This presentation is a clear, concise, and visually appealing guide to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles.
It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout.
Through this presentation, your students will learn:
What articles are
What their audience and purpose are
What register is used when writing articles
What is the structure of an article
Do’s and don’ts of article introductions
How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion
Article analysis stations activity
Getting high-school students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge!
This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text.
The questions are grouped into four categories:
Content,
Audience,
Purpose and tone,
Form and structure and Language
This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole.
The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge.
The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity!
A detailed answer key is provided, so no prep is needed on your part!
If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review.
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Using advanced words for describing how people look can be a challenge for ESL students. They often resort to familiar, but very simple words to describe appearance.
But now you have a ready-made solution to that problem!
To boost your learners’ vocabulary for describing appearance, use this bundle which contains revision and practice activities for a wide range of vocabulary for describing appearance, including facial features, skin, build, hair and hairstyles, clothes and accessories.
The bundle includes:
a presentation and matching cards game with high-quality photos that student can describe to practice the new vocabulary
a guessing game that will helps student practice target vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and grammar, all while having fun
The presentation
With excellent visuals and key words, this presentation will help your learners take that step forward and move away from simple, everyday vocabulary towards more nuanced and native-like expressions.
The game
This interactive game is an excellent way to combine vocabulary learning with practicing speaking and listening skills and grammar. The game is based on a ready-made inclusive presentation that presents high quality images of people from different backgrounds. Your students will ask and answer questions about the people in the photos, pay attention to even the slightest details and practice incorporating high-level, nuanced vocabulary into their everyday conversations and writing.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, with this bundle, you will be able to teach about describing people with a resource that promotes diversity by including people of different races, religions, ages and abilities.
If you like this product, please leave a review.
Knowing genre conventions is an important aspect of being able to write well. This presentation is a** clear, concise, and visually appealing guide** to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles.
It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout.
Through this presentation, your students will learn:
What articles are
What their audience and purpose are
What register is used when writing articles
What is the structure of an article
Do’s and don’ts of article introductions
How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion
If you like this presentation, please leave a review.
If you have any questions, I’m always happy to help!
This murder mystery roleplay or collaborative writing activity is an open-ended discussion activity aimed at providing an engaging platform for students to collaborate, practice crime vocabulary and express their creativity.
The pack includes:
a background story
roles for students
teacher instructions for two different options on conducting the activity
This immersive discussion activity helps students develop:
critical thinking skills: students are presented with a complex problem that requires them to think critically, analyze evidence, and make logical deductions
communication skills: students engage in discussions, share theories, and collaborate with their peers, enhancing their communication and interpersonal skills
creativity: the activity encourages creative thinking as students try to piece together the story and generate hypotheses about what happened
problem-solving skills: students must work collaboratively to solve the mystery, fostering problem-solving skills as they try to identify the perpetrator
The resource pack offers two options for conducting this activity:
Option 1 is a collaborative writing activity. Students write a crime story based on the information given about the background story, characters and clues. This highly motivating activity enables students to work together to create a well-crafted piece of writing.
Option 2 is a roleplay activity. Students take on the roles of the characters in the murder mystery story. The student who is assigned the role of a detective questions other students and attempts to discover the killer.
This activity is a part of my large crime resource pack that offers various activities on the topic of crime (including vocabulary, discussion, reading comprehension and extended reading activities).
You might also be interested in this [crime vocabulary presentation]/teaching-resource/crime-vocabulary-presentation-12913015).
Or, get it all at a lower price here!
This resource provides free templates for hexagonal thinking activities that can be used in any classroom to help students make meaningful connections, engage in productive discussions and foster critical thinking skills.
Hexagonal thinking is a strategy that helps students understand how different concepts are connected to each other.
It helps students think critically and analyze different aspects of a certain phenomenon or situation.
It can be used in a variety of different subjects to consolidate learning, foster higher level thinking skills and even assess hat they have learned.
The resource includes:
blank hexagon templates that can be used in any class for virtually any lesson
arrow templates for students t indicate the most important connections
worksheets for students to explain their thinking
This is an open-ended activity. There are no right or wrong answers. The students can come up with any arrangement of hexagons that makes sense to them, as long as they are able to explain their thinking and justify their choices by making logical and meaningful connections.
Instructions
Print out as many copies of the hexagonal thinking activity sheets as you need (students can work individually, in pairs or in groups
Write the terms you want to include on the hexagons and cut out the hexagons
Explain to the students that they need to arrange the hexagons in a meaningful manner to show the connections between the terms
Showcase some examples of finished hexagon networks to demonstrate what the final product should look like; there are no right or wrong answers, but the connections need to be meaningful and logical
Explain to the students that they need to choose three or six (as many as you want) connections which they will explain in more detail
Hand out the hexagons, arrows and explanation sheets
Monitor as your engaged students lead meaningful discussions, make connections and explain their thinking
After they’re finished, you can ask members of each group to present one or two of the connections they chose to explain in more detail
As an extension activity, you can ask students to engage in a class-wide discussion about the issue
Check out other hexagonal thinking resources:
Environment - a hexagonal thinking discussion activity
School shootings - a hexagonal thinking discussion activity
Jobs and career - hexagonal thinking discussion activity
Health and fitness - a hexagonal thinking discussion activity
This hexagonal thinking activity will help your students engage in meaningful discussions and think deeply about the events, themes and motifs of Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Through this activity, students will make connections between themes such as oppression, language and power, propaganda, revolution and totalitarianism. They will gain a better understanding of the book and analyze the relationships between different aspects of society Orwell portrayed.
Hexagonal thinking is a strategy that helps students understand how different concepts are connected to each other.
It helps students think critically and analyze different aspects of a certain phenomenon or situation.
It can be used in a variety of different subjects to consolidate learning, foster higher level thinking skills and even assess what they have learned.
The resource includes:
hexagon cut-outs with terms from the book
instructions
reflection worksheets
arrow cut-outs for indicating important relationship between terms
free templates for other hexagonal thinking activities
This is an open-ended activity. There are no right or wrong answers. The students can come up with any arrangement of hexagons that makes sense to them, as long as they are able to explain their thinking and justify their choices by making logical and meaningful connections.
Instructions
Print out as many copies of the hexagonal thinking activity sheets as you need (students can work individually, in pairs or in groups)
Cut out the hexagons
Explain to the students that they need to arrange the hexagons in a meaningful manner to show the connections between the terms
Showcase some examples of finished hexagon networks to demonstrate what the final product should look like; there are no right or wrong answers, but the connections need to be meaningful and logical
Explain to the students that they need to choose three or six (as many as you want) connections which they will explain in more detail
Hand out the hexagons, arrows and explanation sheets
Monitor as your engaged students lead meaningful discussions, make connections and explain their thinking
After they’re finished, you can ask members of each group to present one or two of the connections they chose to explain in more detail
As an extension activity, you can ask students to engage in a class-wide discussion about the issue
These beautiful posters help your students finally understand the differences between tricky commonly confused word pairs such as effect/affect, lie/lay and accept/except.
Key Features:
The posters focus on 10 commonly confused word pairs. Each poster provides the spelling, part of speech, definition and examples of each word. The words are explained in pairs, enabling students to compare and contrast the words in each pair.
Versatile Usage: Whether you’re an ELA or ESL educator, this resource is adaptable to both settings. Its comprehensive approach ensures that students of varying language proficiency levels can benefit from a stronger grasp of commonly confused words.
Word pairs included in this resource:
lay/lie, lose/loose, compliment/complement, advice/advise, stationary/stationery, allude/elude, accept/except, further/farther, affect/effect, and principle/principal.
How many times have you seen your students using the same commonly confused words wrongly? It can be so frustrating seeing them struggle with the same problem again and again. This resource, consisting of a well-structured presentation and engaging worksheets, helps your students finally understand the differences between tricky word pairs such as effect/affect, lie/lay and accept/except.
Key Features:
**Presentation Power:
The 50-slide presentation focuses on 10 commonly confused word pairs. It provides the spelling, part of speech, definition and examples of each word. The words are explained in pairs, enabling students to compare and contrast the words in each pair. This is followed by further examples that help students use the words in real-life contexts.
**Interactive Worksheets: **
Our worksheets encourage active learning and practice. Each word pair is explored through different exercises, allowing your students to apply their newfound knowledge and reinforce their understanding. From fill-in-the-blanks to creative sentence creation, these worksheets cater to diverse learning styles and abilities. They follow the presentation closely and can be used later as useful reference material for further practice and revision.
**Versatile Usage: **
Whether you’re an ELA or ESL educator, this resource is adaptable to both settings. Its comprehensive approach ensures that students of varying language proficiency levels can benefit from a stronger grasp of commonly confused words.
Word pairs included in this resource:
lay/lie, lose/loose, compliment/complement, advice/advise, stationary/stationery, allude/elude, accept/except, further/farther, affect/effect, and principle/principal.
Understanding the** definitions, examples and effects** of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing.
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)
This resource works extremely well with my persuasive language techniques presentation.
I suggest you teach the techniques using the presentation first, and then have students revise using this matching cards set.
This resource focuses on vocabulary for upper intermediate students related to traffic problems and issues that drivers can face on dangerous roads.
The lesson is based on the ‘10 roads you would never want to drive on’ video which can be found at this link.
The video is rich in advanced vocabulary related to traffic and traffic problems and is excellent for listening comprehension.
Instructions:
The students watch the video and fill in the worksheet in which they list the problems on each of the roads mentioned in the video
The teacher goes over the results with the students
Based on that listening exercise, the students guess the meaning of the key words from the video (this can be done in pairs or individually)
The teacher shows the presentation with images and definitions of the key vocabulary
Extension activity: Students practice the words using the matching cards included in the resource pack
Resources included:
Listening comprehension worksheet
Vocabulary guessing worksheet
Answer key for both worksheets
Presentation with high-quality images and clear definitions
BONUS file: FREE matching cards
The resource focuses on the following words and expressions:
stretch of road, tide, route, vanish, mistime, slippery, elevation, pothole, twists and turns, pedestrian, guardrail/safety barrier, remote, breakdown, headlights, fatal, head-on collision, erosion, landslide, narrow, blind corner, plummet, infamous, hairpin turns, desolate, featureless, paved, blizzard, altitude, impassable, four-wheel drive