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.
Writing stronger vocabulary is a challenge for students. For the teacher it is an important aid to have easy to access vocabulary exercises to meet this challenge for students. So, what does this synonym challenge offer?
• Helps the student to broaden his or her vocabulary range.
• Strengthens word use to produce stronger sentences.
• Creates greater clarity to the meaning of sentences
• Makes the teaching of vocabulary easier.
• Builds a foundation of vocabulary words.
• Reinforces learning of the synonyms through the placement of words in sentences.
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
The Ideal resource for the busy teacher. If you are teaching a unit on film analysis this 30 slides PPT gives your students a major insight to the ways films are produced. In addition students learn how films really tell stories.
From the intense close-up that shows every tear, to the suspenseful low-angle shot that makes a villain tower with power — filmic devices are the hidden tools directors use to shape meaning, emotion, and action.
Why Learn Filmic Devices?
• Decode the secrets behind your favourite scenes
• Boost your media analysis essays with sharp, specific vocabulary
• Understand how lighting, camera angles, editing, and sound shape what we feel and think
What the student explores:
• Cinematography: camera angles, shot types, and movement
• Sound Design: music, sound effects, silence, dialogue
• Editing Techniques: cuts, transitions, pacing
• Visual Effects: Lighting effects and CGI(computer generated images)
• Mise-en-scène: costumes, sets, lighting, and placement
• Symbolism and Mood: how visual choices tell deeper stories
In this package the teacher benefits from a comprehensive arsenal of narrative writing tools to help teach narrative writing more effectively. It is not a simple checklist that aids the teaching of the genre but is a ready reference to create effective writers in his or her class. In addition to entrench these concepts, students are given a host of exercises ranging from story starts to techniques like Show and Tell.
What is the breakdown on this package?
• A 14 slide PPT jam packed with features of and techniques for narrative writing
• Students are provided with story starter types and complete exercises on them.
• Students are taught to create descriptive settings.
• Students are taught to develop characters better.
• Students are taught to use stronger nouns and verbs in their writing through exercises.
• Students are taught to use sensory words for better descriptions of scenes and characters in the story through a number of exercises.
• Students are taught to understand conflict in a story better with a number of exercises.
• Students are given ideas to embellish concepts of character development in a story.
• Students are given ideas to pace the story better.
• Students are shown how to vary the length of sentences to create tension and captivate reader. These ideas are affirmed through a number of sentence restructures.
• Students are given tips on ending stories better and supported with exercises to affirm the resolution of a problem.
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.
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 a formidable package for analysing poetry using poetic devices. How do you benefit as a teacher using this package?
• Saving time preparing lessons as the unit covers at least three (3) lessons.
• 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 litany of examples to explain poetic devices.
• Formidable questions to entrench learning of poetic devices
• Satisfaction that the students have sufficient information to analyse poems effectively.
Great saving of time for the busy teacher.
The ideal compendium of information for test preparation for the finance unit in the Business Studies Course.
• Topics include: finance sources, cash flow, income statements, statement of financial position and financial ratios.
• Students improve their understanding of the various terms associated with these topics by completing a table of definitions and providing examples of real life applications.
• To further cement the concepts students complete challenging exercises on income statements, statement of financial position and financial ratios.
• Ideal for homework exercises
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
A three in one bundle of three activities on vocabulary.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 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 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
A bonanza sale of four(4) topics in one bundle to quench your thirst for content about the Marketing Mix (4Ps) component of the IGCSE Business Studies course. The 4Ps is Product, Price, Place and Promotion. This package not only saves time for your lesson planning but you receive quality activities to support the learning curve for students.
This bundle of information offers:
4 PPTS (71 slides in total)
One (1) Product worksheet
Two (2) Price worksheets
One(1) Place worksheet
Two (2) Promotion worksheets
As you know most students struggle with persuasive writing, the argumentative essay being one of the hardest for them to complete successfully.
This insight to argumentative writing is so helpful for students.
An 18 slide PPT and a supplementary guide help the student in the following ways:
Outlines the structure of any style of argumentative essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
Demonstrates ways to introduce the topic with opening sentence, thesis and preview of arguments
Shows how the body paragraphs are structured, each starting with a topic sentence, development of points and clinching statement.
Demonstrates ways to conclude an essay with the emphasis on not including extra arguments. Simply, summing up with a restatement of arguments and outcomes which may have a call to action.
A precis of the two different types of argumentative writing-one sided and two sided.
Type of language used to connect ideas.
A model of a one sided argument done in a counterpoint way.
This material on Business Classification is guaranteed to engage your students as they not only understand the features of various business sectors but also become aware of the relative importance of different sectors in different economies over time. A 19 slide ppt with questions and a series of multiple choice questions to entrench concepts are provided.
At the completion of this lesson, all students should be able to:
• Classify businesses into relevant business sectors
• Understand the different methods of classifying businesses
• Understand the difference between a developing economy and a developed economy.
• Understand the relative importance of business sectors in different economies
• Identify the changes in economic structure of different economies
• Understand the changes in different economies
This test on Income Statements is guaranteed to engage your students as they not only understand the features of an income statement but become proficient in analysing an income statement. The series of questions from a narrative entrench learning. Answers to questions are provided.
Lesson Objectives;
At the completion of this lesson, all students, should be able to:
• Determine the difference between gross profit and net profit
• Understand how gross and net profit margins are determined.
• Determine the changes in profit levels between financial years.
• Understand the importance of differing profits between financial years.
• Understand the concepts of cost of sales and added value.
• Understand how to increase revenue from analysing a narrative.