ESL Materials for Valentine’s Day

/ Home-Schooling, San Valentine, Speaking and Conversation, Teachers, Young Learners

TEEN LOVE – A DARK VALENTINE WORKSHEET FOR UNIQUE TEENS: This is a two-page worksheet for teenager classes. It offers an unusual way to talk about ‘love’ on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Many teens feel uncomfortable if they need to talk about romance. Well, this handout lacks the common aspects of romantic passion.It is an alternative ESL material, since it discusses delicate issues, among these the very popular Wednesday horror series, Lady Gaga’s song ‘Bloody Mary’, religious topics in contemporary songs, new evil or weird ‘heroes’ in modern movies. Choose this worksheet only if your class is ready to

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In Urgent Need to Find Colourful Fun YL Activity Books?

/ Lesson tips, Teachers, Vocabulary training, Young Learners

Teachers often face the hard reality that their students cannot purchase text books or their schools require self-made materials. Many of us continue teaching online and need some visuals they can screen-share and which then engage their sitting students. Most of the times we prepare for YL exams, but lack enough materials and books with only sample tests are really monotonous to teach. All this can be solved with these booklets covering relevant topics, with a great amount of visuals, engaging and fun activities and integrated exam tasks (Cambridge Starters, Movers and Flyers). Take a look!

Revising clothes vocabulary with a Scratch challenge

/ A1, Lesson tips, Pre-A1, Teachers, Vocabulary training, Young Learners

Talking about clothes is always a great opportunity to revise not only vocabulary linked to fashion, colours and shades, but also to recap the word order ‘adjective + noun’. Last but not least, it is also a great opportunity to play. In this post, I’d like to show you one Scratch animation and one follow-up activity for both, online and classroom lessons. The animation (Scratch challenge): Instruction: Click onto the green flag and after a while stop the animation with the red button (or the space key). Describe what Daisy is wearing. For Teachers: You can play this game with

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