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Teachers' Zone

The teacher’s zone offers exciting ready-to-use materials complete with teacher’s notes designed by our professional teaching team. Browse our downloads for some quality teaching resources for you to use in the classroom.

Picture Postcards Intermediate 60 minutes
A motivating and fun lesson to get students writing good postcards. In this worksheet students are given some photos from a holiday in Cornwall and they have to write the postcard. This follows on to a great activity where students go online to webshots.com, a fantastic website with millions of holiday snaps, and find their own pictures to write another postcard.

 
Vocabulary Bingo Intermediate 45 minutes
This useful worksheet provides students with a chance to practice and develop their speaking skills for English exams. Students are asked to think about the key vocabulary for typical exam questions and then speak about their chosen topic for 1 minute. The other students try to guess the words the student speaking will say in their minute. A brilliant way to develop vocabulary and speaking skills.

 
Emergency Services ESOL Level 1 2 hours
This download provides a host of great worksheets for you to print out and use with your students in the classroom. The materials have been especially designed to help migrant workers moving to the UK to develop their awareness of the emergency services. Students will learn when it is appropriate to contact the emergency services and they will learn about the work of the different services that exist in the UK. Plus, these detailed resources will familiarise students with a wide range of vocabulary and phrases that they can use if they ever needed to contact the emergency services.

 
Cornish Cuisine and History ESOL Level 1 90 minutes
This useful and practical series of worksheets provides some excellent materials to help you teach your students about Cornish food. With a strong focus on the Cornish pasty and cream teas, the students will learn everything about the history of these tasty foods and how to cook them. This leads into a general worksheet about the history of Cornwall.

 
Public Transport Pre-intermediate / Entry 3 1 hour

Description: A useful pack of easy to understand materials to help students gain confidence at using public transport. The worksheets provide great vocabulary and role-play activities to help students make enquiries and buy tickets for buses and trains.

 
Driving in the UK Pre-intermediate / Entry 3 2 x 1 hour
Description: A comprehensive selection of materials to teach students about the driving rules on the UK. The students will get to learn how to identify different signs in the UK and they are introduced to the Highway Code. In the second part of the lesson, the students are taught how to deal with an accident on the roads in the UK. They are provided with a wide range of useful vocabulary and will look at some example situations to gain confidence. These materials offer a simple but detailed introduction to the rules of the road in the UK which will give a good basis for further study.

 
Money and Banks in the UK Intermediate / Entry 3 2 x 1 hour
These useful resources will provide students with a wide range of information and vocabulary to help them open a bank account in the UK and to understand the procedures and documents that are required. The students will engage in role plays and will get to practice filling in forms. They will also discuss the different ways that bills can be paid and which ways are the most effective.