Classroom Presentations

Each pack is a set of slides for one lesson or one unit, made to be shown on a classroom projector or a screen at home. The slides carry what you would otherwise write on the board: the target language, the examples, the questions, and the tasks in the order you will set them.

They are not a lesson plan with pictures added. A plan tells you what to do; a deck is what the class looks at while you do it. The two work together, and the free lesson plans on this site tell you what a plan should contain.

• A title slide and an aim slide, so the class can see what the lesson is for.
• The language, presented once and clearly - the structure, its form, and two or three examples, on slides a child at the back can read.
• Practice slides in order, from recognising to producing, with the answers on the slide that follows rather than in a separate file.
• A task the class can do while the slide stays up, so nobody has to remember the instruction.
• A closing slide with the homework written out.

Packs are delivered as a link to the file in Google Drive, sent after payment. Nothing is downloaded from this website, and the site never asks for a card number: payment is by bank transfer, arranged directly, with the product code so we know exactly what you have paid for.

You may use a pack with your own classes for as long as you teach, print the slides as handouts, and adapt them. You may not resell it, upload it to a sharing site, or pass the Drive link to another teacher - one purchase is for one teacher.

A projector changes what a lesson can do, and it changes what can go wrong. These are worth knowing whether the slides are ours or your own.

• Do not read the slide aloud. The class can read it. Say the thing the slide does not say.
• One idea to a slide. A slide holding four points is a slide nobody finishes reading before you move on.
• Leave the task slide up while the class works. The commonest reason a pupil sits doing nothing is that the instruction has gone from the screen.
• Check the back row can read it before the lesson, not during it. If you cannot read a slide from the back of your own classroom, neither can they.
• Have a paper plan too. Electricity fails, and a lesson that only exists on a screen stops with it.