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Adjectives
What are adjectives - types and examples and a focus on using vivid adjectives for description. The examples are colour coded to make grouping easier. It could be used for displays, as a help-sheet or simply for teaching about adjectives.
For some reason, when you preview, it shows incomplete text boxes. It�s fine though when you download. Enjoy!
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 19
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Describing a neutral setting
What�s neutral? Students are given a neutral setting image with descriptions and are asked to sort out the literary devices into a table.
This could be used on its own or it could be used with the poem Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy (or a similar one, where nature mirrors the feelings from the poem). I also uploaded a worksheet on the poem here htt...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Neutral Tones poem - by Thomas Hardy
Who says Hardy is boring and difficult to read? Listen to the poem read on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s2Cl64zYzA.
There is so much feeling (suffering) in a poem meant to show neutrality of a relationship. There is symbolism, pathetic fallacy, metaphors and more. However this worksheet has a copy of the poem, some quotes to match and a though...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Nouns
What are nouns - types and examples and a focus on using senses and adjectives to add detail to descriptions. The examples are colour coded to make grouping easier. It could be used for displays, as a help-sheet or simply for teaching about nouns. For some reason, when you preview, it shows incomplete text boxes. It�s fine though when you download....
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 14
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Persuasive Techniques
Mix and Match definitions to technique.
Fill in the gaps with the technique.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 22
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Planning- Writing to argue- Article
We all know how crucial planning is in writing. This is a very useful resource to help students plan their ideas when writing an article.
An example task is given: To write an article for the school newspaper arguing about the positives and negatives of distance learning. Students are taken step by step through the task. It�s useful to revise purp...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 53
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Refugee Boy - Chapters 2-3 Vocabulary Match
A words and definitions match on chapters 2-3. Answers included.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Short Vowels and CVC Words Mat
A word mat containing words with all short vowels.
Level: elementary
Age: 4-12
Type:
Downloads: 15
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The Iron Man - What shall I eat?
This activity sheet on what the Iron Man eats has 3 activities: Fill in the gaps with vowels; Group things into 4 categories (food, animals, made of metal, around the house) and an Odd One Out task.
It is based on The Iron Man book, by Ted Hughes.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Type:
Downloads: 11
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Animal Farm -By George Orwell- Persuasive Speech- Writing PEE
Identifying Persuasive Techniques in The Old Major�s speech extract and writing PEE paragraphs. As usual, I included a glossary, a writing frame and a model paragraph, both colour coded. There is also Past Simple practice. Animal Farm is a very interesting allegory that uses animals to illustrate c...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 32
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At the Zoo poem - reading comprehension
This a poem with some comprehension questions which can help with some animals description vocabulary. There is a link for the audio version, so students can listen to the poem being read aloud (great for distance learning!).
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Downloads: 15
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Covid-19 - Letter of opinion to my future self
This is a writing task I used for teaching remotely my Year 11 students in England. How the post-pandemic Covid-19 world will be different to the world today in 20 years time?
There are 2 options for support:
A basic informal letter layout frame.
A more scaffolded frame with topics and...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 30
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Covid-19 article comprehension and writing tasks
An article adapted from TheDay.co.uk with a list of words to check meaning, a quiz for comprehension and possible writing tasks. I hope you like it.
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Downloads: 48
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CVC words
A fill in the gap worksheet which tests CVC basic vocabulary and understanding of short vowels.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-12
Downloads: 19
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Holiday: At the Seaside
A Seaside Pictionary!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-16
Downloads: 42
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Holiday: In the Mountains
A Mountains Holiday labelled pictionary!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-16
Downloads: 40
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My Holiday: At the...
This is a wonderful writing tool for scaffolding the writing compositions about holidays. It includes: Planning by questioning, A pictionary word bank and 2 Writing Frames. I use this as part of Writing an Autobiography topic but can be used for any holiday writing topic
I uploaded this resource ag...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
Downloads: 35
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Refugee Boy-Chapter 6 vocabulary
A list of vocabulary with definitions from Chapter 6, followed by a Fill in the Gaps Task to test understanding of new words.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 4
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Spelling Strategies
A list of useful spelling strategies with examples. How we apply some of these spelling strategies to remember �necessary�, �disappointed�, �accommodate� �beginning�, �know�. I used this as part of a spelling intervention program in a London secondary school.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
Downloads: 19
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