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I have taught English, EAL, French, Spanish and Italian. I love to use images. I like to make short activities, useful for starters or fillers.

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I have taught English, EAL, French, Spanish and Italian. I love to use images. I like to make short activities, useful for starters or fillers.
Mini short stories wtih exercises.
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Mini short stories wtih exercises.

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22 short stories, 42 slides. Each can be storyboarded and adapted to hot seat activities. All on one file; I've put 6 so you can preview. Exercises and activities are provided for each story. Some of the stories are items adapted from the news.
Language and Literacy Activities for Science
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Language and Literacy Activities for Science

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87 slides each containing a language or literacy activity for science. There are match-up activities at word and sentence level, punctuation and paraphrase exercises as well as mini-biographies of famous scientists. Language activities include making comparisons and the passive voice in science. The topics, while science-based, are of general interest. These make great starter activities.
Fifty Fun starters
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Fifty Fun starters

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56 slides - a compilation of more or less ready-to-go fun activities. Besides ideas, I have included some exercises that you can use or adapt, also website addresses where you can access materials. I enjoyed putting this together and I hope it will be useful.
Making inferences.
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Making inferences.

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There are six shopping lists. What can students deduce about the people's personalities? On page 2, there are some prompts and a gap fill activity as differentiation.
EAL Strategies Mats
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EAL Strategies Mats

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Mats in various formats for teachers who have EAL students in their class. Some of these I have uploaded previously - on here they are updated. The infographic could be used as staff training: what does each image mean? There is a sentence generator and a mat for teaching new items of vocabulary which I have seen elsewhere in various forms. Hope these are useful!
Activities for tutor period
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Activities for tutor period

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30 slides with brain teasers, hidden words, quiz activities.... things you may find useful for tutor period or as lesson starters to get those brains in gear. I have created some of these slides and adapted others from the net. Many of the puzzles are all time classics. On slides where the animations don't come in, answers are on the notes section at the bottom of the slide.
Prefixes and suffixes
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Prefixes and suffixes

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The students have to find the prefix or suffix which will go with each of 4 words. There are 32 sets of words. They can then discuss whether they have created antonyms or turned adjectives into proper nouns etc... A few slides at a time for starter activities...
For and against: Vegetarianism
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For and against: Vegetarianism

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This is designed for EAL learners, but is useful as a prompt for debate in the mainstream classroom. The arguments and counter arguments are presented as exercises: match-up, replace the words and re-arrange the words. There is also a powerful image to describe - my thanks to Rich the vegansidekick for permission to use it. A full key is included.
Past simple tense practice
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Past simple tense practice

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Well, it is what it is. A ws to practise the past simple tense for EAL students. Useful as a homework sheet? All the verbs needed are in the blue column and they can be used more than once. Cut the column off for more advanced students.
European Day of Languages
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European Day of Languages

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September 26th - it's European Day of Languages. Gap fill and match up activities, focusing on the spellings of the languages and matching them to the countries.
Romeo and Juliet starter
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Romeo and Juliet starter

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The students decide which comment refers to which character. You could develop this by asking them to back up their decisions/give examples.
The Circulatory System
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The Circulatory System

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This is a worksheet for EAL students. It focuses on key words to do with the circulatory system and breathing. Correct the mistakes, unscramble the words, answer the questions. Your EAL students can do this while the rest of the class does more advanced work.
Macbeth paraphrase and sequence activity
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Macbeth paraphrase and sequence activity

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There are two sets of 11 boxes with a short paragraph. In pairs, the students discuss which of each pair is the best paragraph and why. They can 'mix and match' and create their own version. Next, they match the 11 paragraphs up to the pictures and put them in sequence to tell the basic storyline. I have taken the box layout and pictures from the internet.
Teaching and Supporting EAL
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Teaching and Supporting EAL

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35 slides, with hints, activities and strategies for supporting EAL students. Also included are activities for staff training. Please note I have included some strategy mats that I've uploaded previously.
Words beginning with ...
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Words beginning with ...

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This is a brain gym type activity. The students are given a description and they must guess the word from the clue. 13 slides, going through the alphabet twice. The first section is easy and the second section has harder clues. Answers fly in at the end of each box.
25 'ready to go' Literacy Starters
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25 'ready to go' Literacy Starters

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30 slides. They include: choose the right connective/paraphrase/spellings/making inferences/adding the punctuation etc. Will suit years 5,6,7,8. Please note that I have adapted some slides from my ppt 'Literacy for Science'.
Bullying: what is it and how can we deal with it?
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Bullying: what is it and how can we deal with it?

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Activities around bullying, including a warmer, 'scenario' cards for students to comment on or act out; comment cards for pair work and role play, with pyramid of importance activity; match-up activity on types of bullying and on what makes a bully; suggestions for dealing with bullying tick lists and a case history with activities. The activities are suitable for pair and group work. Before approaching each of these activities, you can ask students to come up with their own ideas. I did this with year 7, on a 'conflict resolution' day.