A selection of English ESL rather ppt slides

To be used with the worksheet of the same name. Can, Could, May  Must, May, Might, Will, Would, Shall, Should: they're all here, but if your students are not French, you're going to have to change the text and adapt it.

THE MODALS ALL IN PICTURES (Can, Could, May  Must, May, Might, Will, Would, Shall, Should)

This is the Powerpoint about London! It is rather long. You can use it to illustratre different lessons. I hope you will enjoy it as much as my students have enjoyed it. I have used it as an introduction to London, The Royal Family, Food, ect.  Have fun. You could add a video clip of the changing of the guard and use the song 'London Bridge is Falling Down' depending on your groups.

Welcome to London

A modest little PPT that presents some examples of Present Perfect Continuous Tense in the affirmative, negative and interrogative. It is only seven slides long, I envision it being more of an addition to someone's lesson rather than a full-fledged lesson in itself.

Examples of Present Perfect Continuous Tense Sentences

Christmas guess who or guess what. The description first, then the object flies in. I have used clipart, rather than words. The last slide isn't really Christmas-specific, but I couldn't resist! 

Christmas guess who

- 24 questions, complete answers - 





Questions using present continuous and family members: giving complete answers, students will review present continuous, personal pronouns, chores and family members.





- Click on the wheel to make it spin or stop. After defining color, students choose question 1 or 2 in that color. 


- Click on the chosen button to see the question.


- Press "check" button to see the right answer.


- Press "return" button to go back to the game.


- Click on the number in the scoreboard to keep track of each team/student's score.





Hope your students enjoy. Happy teaching!

Present Continuous - Game with Spinning Wheel and Scorecard

This powerpoint is about preferences and more precisely about WOULD RATHER (not) and WOULD PREFER (not) TO. Pupils ask each other questions and they can justify their answers with my worksheet "Movie and feelings" also available on ISL Collective.

Cinema and preferences

This Powerpoint presents a song written by John Lennon "Imagine" and can help teachers in many ways when teaching vocabulary, parts of speach, making sentences, discussions. It is appropriate for any level: elementary, with the presentation of vocabulary with flashcards, worksheets with "filling in the blanks and listening" and other inumerous activities. At the intermediate, it is very useful for the teaching of parts of speech, with the help of the words in the song, uses of expressions like "I wonder if...","I hope..." and many others. And at an advanced level, work in groups, in pairs, with the message contained in the song, using the words that are connected to the subject: "come and join us", "nothing to kill or die for", "living in peace" and more. I strongly recommend presenting this Powerpoint at the end of the activities, both for checking exercises done before it, as well as enjoying this beautiful song. I hope you enjoy it, too!!!

Imagine by John Lennon

it explains the use of would rather and gives exercises related to would rather and would prefer

would raher

Part 2 will be available in a few weeks.  You may find a few funny things in the slide it depends on rather or not you have been in those types of situations.  

John

Weather an Animated Slide Part 1

PowerPoint presentation used in conjunction with "How to Use an Apostrophe" student/teacher notes page.



Goes through three rules of using an apostrophe with examples.



Rules from The Blue Book of Grammar. (Some rules are disagreed upon. I presented my students with my opinion rather than overwhelm them with many options, but I informed them that this was AN opinion on a widely-debated issue.)

How to Use an Apostrophe 

2007 or better.  Click on start and the choose on rather or not you want to use  the color game or us the board game for another activity. Clicking on change colors will change the background colors.  Teams must answer the questions.  Angry bird and the pig will bring in the X or O.  Click square once for X, again for blank and again (maybe twice for O).

John

Colours Angry Bird Tic Tac Toe Game

A ppt to revise  classroom english

of a pre intermediate level . The  students guess after viewing the ppt  what is the correct order or  question corresponding to  the pictures .It is  a rather funny communicative activity  before  a let's recap written sheet. Enjoy

Classroom English

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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39 Rather English ESL powerpoints