The Hamburger Hut - Tactile Lesson to Target Spoken Skills

The Make-Your-Own Hamburger Hut, gives your students have the opportunity to make their own hamburgers out of the ingredients given. You get all the pieces separately and can put together your own hamburgers, as you like them (or ask someone else to, in order to get confidence in ordering, expressing opinions and asking questions).

It's great for both ESL / TESOL learners and early learners. You can cut out and laminate the pieces so that they can be reused again and again. It really engages students in a physical task. They can also be put onto a smartboard and moved around.

Copyright 2015 Meg. English

This can used to teach all sorts of lessons:

* Expressing likes and dislikes (’I like cheese’, ‘I don’t like beetroot on my hamburger’);
* Expressing opinion  (‘I don’t think it is right to eat meat’ ‘I think egg on hamburgers is weird’);
* Food vocabulary (lettuce, tomatoes, cheese etc);
* Asking questions  (‘Do you like cheese?’ ‘Would you like mustard on your hamburger?’);
* Colours;
* Discussion of cultural differences and food preferences;
* Countable and uncountable nouns (much vs many) (‘I don’t like much mustard’ ‘I only want a few pickles’);
* Prepositions of place (under, over, on top of, on etc) ;
* Superlatives and comparatives (bigger than, the biggest etc); and
* Ordering food target language (‘I would like..’ ‘Can I please have…’ etc).

Students can do the activities all together or can break into groups. Consider having one student taking orders, one making the hamburgers and other people ordering (then swap)! (:

They have been hand-drawn in a fun cartoon style to make them more appealing. And yes, I am Australian, so I have included pineapple and beetroot, but that's something else you can discuss with your students! (;

I had a lot of fun with its prototype with ESL students in Japan. There were lots of giggles and more importantly, something to bring out those confident speaking skills.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Hamburger-Hut-Tactile-Fun-to-Target-Speaking-Skills-2011587

Spring is in the Air! Spring Decoration Set

Celebrate the coming of Spring with a bright and cheerful Spring decoration set for your classroom, bulletin board, door or books.

Includes
* a banner,
* 2 signs,
* a bright floral border and
* notepaper,
 all in ready-to-print pdfs. Images are of flowers, bees and ladybirds, as well as the word seen and sells for $1.00.

Copyright 2015 Meg. English
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Decoration-Set-1783866

Easter Clip Art and Stationery

A bright and cute Easter set to decorate your classroom, use for craft, make into games or give your printouts a cheerful Easter theme! Also great for making cute Easter cards.

Includes:
*12 cute clip art Easter images,
* 2 Easter backgrounds,
* 1 border,  and
*2 letterheads (banners).

All are background-free, resizeable pngs. This sells for $2.50.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Clip-Art-and-Stationery-1777047

Copyright 2015 Meg. English

Reward Clip Art for Games

These are reward clipart images to use in resources such as:
* games,
* good behaviour charts,
* task charts (for example, an image on every fifth square indicates a small reward), or
* to make into certificates, badges or cards for positive behaviour reinforcement. They work well as small cards when stickers have lost their a-peel (ba boom boom) and they are quick to hand out (no more fiddling to find the sticker edges).

The images are bright and cute and the images are resizeable.

 They sell for just $1.50 and unlike stickers just need to be reprinted rather than re-bought (:
 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cute-and-Bright-Reward-Clip-Art-1776421

Pizza Clip Art

Well, the most engaging (and relatable) way I could think of to teach fractions to early learners was to set up a Pizzeria!

Here are some ideas for using this resource:
1.  Print out one pizza per student and get them to cut it up into ever smaller fractions to feed more people (e.g. halves, quarters and eighths or halves and sixths etc);

2. Ask students to roleplay the pizza maker and the customer. The customer has to tell the pizza maker how many people want a piece (if you can source or make pizza boxes, this one really comes to life!);

3. Ask the students to cut out (smaller) pizzas into set fractions (e.g. thirds, quarters, fifths etc). Ask them to  paste them onto cardboard, slightly separated and label the fractions. Then ask the students to write how many pieces that made.

As well as this, you can use the images to advertise fundraisers for your school such as pizza days or harmony days.

The images provided are resizeable so you can make your pizzas as small or as big as you like. (:

This sells for only $1.00 and you can find it at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pizza-Clip-Art-for-Fractions-Fundraising-and-Play-1774622

Copyright 2015 Meg. English

Smart Girls

Copyright 2015 Meg.English

This is a resource available for FREE on TPT. It features two resizeable images of smart women in the sciences. They can be used in any of your teaching resources/ worksheets etc.

I made these because I feel we need more images of female scientists and doctors or women working in traditionally male industries in teaching resources, especially women of colour.

I hope to add to these in the future, so keep a lookout (:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Smart-Girls-1770479