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Slide guides
Can you describe these pictures?
Can you think of some adjectives for these pictures?
A B C
Body text: Arial 24
Title Font: Arial 38 (down to Arial 34 if a two-line title
is required) – keep titles short + instructions clear
Label all pictures! This allows for student
/ teacher referencing during class.
Can you describe these pictures?
Can you think of some adjectives for these pictures?
Maintain the same vertical height
A B C
for the slide body. Slide body
starts at vertical height of 4cm
Right margin, determined
D
by right side of title block
Left margin, determined
by left side of title block
Now think about this picture…
A A perfect B
A cool sunny
sunny day
day on a
on a tropical Label all exercises! This beach.
tropical
beach. allows for student / teacher
Use text formatting referencing during class
sparingly (bold / italics
/ underline /
strikethrough) do not
use two types of Center pictures
formatting on any C A cloudy horizontally
single piece of text
sunny day
on a nice
beach. Add colored borders to
pictures to provide
sharper definition
Which one is correct?
Royalty free pictures can be
found on several sites,
including [Link]
and [Link]
Small or Big
Fact or opinion?
Align pictures vertically
in a row
antique Spanish cotton
boring
Center text inside text
labels horizontally
In captions, avoid excessive
use of capitalization and
happy tall
punctuation depressing
wet
Which is correct?
9. That was such a boring English/English boring lesson.
Try not to use more than 3 or 4
I’m glad it’s over. colors from a pallet in any one
lesson. Using the ‘transparency’
feature for any given color can
10. Mary is wearing a silver beautiful/beautiful silver
provide variation in color.
necklace.
11. I don’t like her. She is a difficult old/old difficult woman.
12. What a young polite/polite young man!
Try not to include more than 4 or
5 exercise sentences per slide
Make sentences
Jeremy’s still at work …he hasn’t eaten all his
because… justify objectsvegetables
vertically yet
(‘align top’)
Roger is waiting at the …he hasn’t finished his
doctor’s clinic because… report yet
Henry is still sitting at the
…she
when two orhasn’t found
more items are it yet
dinner table
justify because…
objects selected (that you want to align)
horizontally (‘align left’) double click them, and you’ll see
Saul is still waiting inside an ‘align’
…it’s
button/dropdown
not time for
in the
his
ribbon that you can use to align
the house because… appointment
objects to each other yet
Judy is still looking for her …it hasn’t stopped raining
scarf because… yet
Sample Slides
title page example
A2.1 – Adjectives order,
before nouns
Lesson 1/4
Alternative Tags: order of adjectives,
adjectives with nouns
old house narrow path
Title
Lesson #
Tags: example tag
example target example target
language language
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
Adjective + noun: can you make
sentences?
1. It’s a _____ day today. Let’s go to the beach!
Gap fill example (word
2. This is a picture of a _____ house. options at bottom)
3. Wow! That looks like an _____ car.
4. Dominik doesn’t like _____ movies.
expensive traditional beautiful scary
Title
1. sentence 1
2. sentence 2
3. sentence 3
4. sentence 4
word 1 word 2 word 3 word 4
Adjective + noun: can you make
sentences?
Gap fill example (word
5. Where is my _____ options on right)
jacket?
6. Don’t eat _____ food. It
is bad for you. red thick
7. This is a _____ book.
8. You need to stop at the
_____ light. warm sugary
Title
5. sentence 1
6. sentence 2
7. sentence 3 word 1 word 2
8. sentence 4
word 3 word 4
Which is correct?
Which is correct?
1. Janet likes to watch adventure films/films adventure.
example (options are
coloured)
2. There are a lot of larges trees/large trees in the park.
3. London has many old buildings/buildings old.
4. The small baby/small babies are sleeping.
.
Title
1. sentence 1 option 1/option 2.
2. sentence 2 option 1/option 2.
3. sentence 3 option 1/option 2.
4. sentence 4 option 1/option 2.
.
Make sentences
Jeremy’s still at work …he hasn’t eatenexercise
matching all his
example
because… vegetables yet
Roger is waiting at the …he hasn’t finished his
doctor’s clinic because… report yet
Henry is still sitting at the
…she hasn’t found it yet
dinner table because…
Saul is still waiting inside …it’s not time for his
the house because… appointment yet
Judy is still looking for her …it hasn’t stopped raining
scarf because… yet
Title
option 1… …option 1
option 2… …option 2
option 3… …option 3
option 4… …option 4
option 5… …option 5
Match an adjective and a noun…
Use the pictures as clues to see which words go together:
orange
old
matching example (2 types of juice
words, describing pictures)
long chair
A B C
fresh mountain
high snake
D
Title
additional instructions:
word 1 word 5
word 2 word 6
A B C
word 3 word 7
word 4 word 8
D
Make sentences
make sentences
1. has / he / small / puppy / a example
2. Alfred / to buy / a / wants / car / new
Title
1. part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / part 5
2. part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / part 5
At the beach!
Gap fill example,
My name is Joshua and I am 12
paragraph format (2
colorful towel
words options)
years old. Today is lovely. It is a
______. I am on a ______ with my
sandy beach
family. I have a ______ called Logan
and he is 8. We both love the beach.
young My mother is next to us. She is lying day
on her ______ and listening to
warm music. brother
Title
Lorem ipsum ______ dolor sit amet,
word 1 word 5
consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
eiusmod ______ tempor incididunt ut
word 2 word 6
labore et dolore magna aliqua
______. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
word 3 quis nostrud exercitation ullamco word 7
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea ______
word 4 commodo consequat ______. word 8
GRAMMAR EXPLANATIONS
Which sentence below is incorrect?
grammar explanation
The words in red are nouns. A noun is the name of a thing.
example
Do you like French food? I don’t like large dogs.
Ethan lives in a city old. Adrian and Sofia like to look
Ethan lives in an old city. at modern paintings.
Title
Explanatory text:
example 1 example 1
example 3 example 4
Adjectives before nouns
grammar explanation
In English, adjectives often come before nouns:
example
The beautiful
house. ✔ ✗ The house
beautiful.
The
expensive car. ✔ ✗ The car
expensive.
Title 1
Explanatory text:
example 1
(correct) ✔ ✗ example 1
(incorrect)
example 2
(correct) ✔ ✗ example 2
(incorrect)
Adverbs of time
grammar explanation
example
An adverb of time explains when something happens.
Adverbs of time answer the questions
When? and How long?
I went to the store yesterday.
In this sentence, yesterday is an adverb
of time. It answers the question When?
Can you think of some other
adverbs of time?
Title
Explanatory text 1:
Explanatory text 2:
Sample sentence
explanatory text
further expansion / adaptation
prompts
The present continuous
conjugation table
example
subject am / are / is verb -ing
subject am / are / is verb -ing
I am singing
you are reading
he is painting
she is watching
it is snowing
we are coming
they are leaving
Title
text text text
text text text
example 1 example 1 example 1
example 2 example 2 example 2
example 3 example 3 example 3
example 4 example 4 example 4
example 5 example 5 example 5
example 6 example 6 example 6
example 7 example 7 example 7
They are waiting for the bus.
cline example
They went to the bus stop at 5pm.
They will get on the bus at 5:30
pm.
Now they are waiting for the bus.
Waiting for bus
5pm 5:30pm
Now
Title
text describing time 1
text describing time 2
text describing time 3
text
time 1 time 3
time 2
WARM UPS
Which words describe the pictures?
warm-up example 1
A B
old expensive cute enormous
happy young
Title
A B
option 1 option 2 option 3 option 4
option 5 option 6
What about you?
warm-up example 2
Can you answer these questions about yourself?
What are you planning
to do tomorrow?
What did you do
yesterday?
Are you planning to take What will your life
any trips next year? be like ten years
from now?
Title
Explanatory text
prompt 1
prompt 3
prompt 2
prompt 4
Direct speech
warm-up example 3
Hi! It is nice to meet
you. I am going to
teach you about
reported speech!
Title
insert sample text
