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ETHICAL ENGLISHCOOPERATIVE LEARNING TRAINING  •  EFL/ESL TEACHING RESOURCES

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ETHICAL ENGLISHCOOPERATIVE LEARNING TRAINING  •  EFL/ESL TEACHING RESOURCES

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Various Vocabulary - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Keep your ESL and EFL students actively using English with this set of mixed-vocabulary speaking cards designed for whole-class mingles, partner rotation, and cooperative learning routines. These cards give learners repeated opportunities to practise key vocabulary from a range of topics while speaking, listening, and interacting with multiple classmates.<br><br>Perfect for revision lessons, end-of-unit reviews, warm-ups, and communicative skills practice, this resource supports mixed-ability groups and keeps every learner engaged through movement and structured peer interaction.<br><br>What’s included<br>• A set of printable mixed-vocabulary ESL/EFL speaking cards<br>• Prompts covering everyday language, classroom topics, and general EFL themes<br>• A blank, editable card template for adding custom prompts<br>• Clear teacher instructions for running whole-class mingles and rotating-partner activities<br>• Flexible guidance for differentiation and classroom management

Animals - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring energy and interaction to your ESL/EFL lessons with this set of Q&A Trade animal-themed speaking cards, designed for whole-class mingle tasks and fast-paced partner rotation.<br><br>Q&A Trade is an active cooperative learning routine that gets students moving around the classroom, meeting new partners, and practising animal vocabulary through short, structured conversations that suit mixed-ability groups.<br><br>This resource helps learners build confidence, recall key animal terms, and develop speaking and listening fluency in a natural, communicative way. Ideal for young learners, teens, and general EFL/ESL classes.

Around The Home - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Develop your students’ confidence with this set of household-themed ESL/EFL speaking cards, designed for whole-class mingles, partner rotation, and other cooperative learning routines. Learners move around the room, meet new partners, and practise essential home and household vocabulary through short, focused conversations.<br><br>This resource supports communicative language development, vocabulary recall, and speaking fluency. It works well in EFL classrooms, ESL groups, and mainstream classrooms with English language learners.<br><br>What’s included:<br>• A full set of household and home-related speaking cards<br>• Prompts covering common household items, routines, everyday household chores<br>• A blank editable template for adding custom household questions<br>• Clear card layouts for easy sorting and use during lessons<br>• Teacher instructions for running mingles, rotating-partner tasks, and flexible group interactions

Around Town - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring maximum energy to your ESL/EFL classroom with these city-themed speaking cards designed specifically for whole-class mingle activities. Students move around the room, rotate partners quickly, exchange cards, and use English in continuous speaking, listening, and reading practice.<br><br>Every learner is active at the same time. No waiting, no long turns, no passive students—just fast, repeated interaction that builds confidence and fluency.<br><br>What’s included:<br>• City-themed ESL/EFL speaking cards with clear, simple prompts<br>• A blank editable template for extra city questions<br>• Teacher instructions for running high-energy mingles and rotating-partner tasks<br>• Clean card layouts for quick organisation and smooth execution<br>• Vocabulary covering city places, transport, landmarks, activities, and everyday situations

Christmas Prepositions of Place - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring festive energy into your ESL/EFL classroom with this Christmas Prepositions of Place Q&A Trade speaking activity. Designed for high-engagement communication practice, this mingle routine gets every learner moving, speaking, listening, and reading in rapid, meaningful exchanges. It is ideal for beginners through pre-intermediate learners who need structured, confidence-building language practice.<br><br>Using Q&A Trade, students circulate, meet new partners, ask and answer questions, and swap cards after each exchange. This repeated interaction supports fluency, strengthens grammar accuracy, and encourages natural English use in a low-pressure, enjoyable format.<br><br>Learning Focus:<br>Students describe Christmas scenes featuring trees, stockings, presents, ornaments, elves, and other seasonal items positioned in different places. These visuals help reinforce essential prepositions such as in, on, under, behind, next to, between, and in front of. The clear, familiar imagery makes the activity accessible for ELLs, young learners, and mixed-ability classes.<br>

Problem & Solution - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Build essential communication skills while exploring real-world problem-solving with this set of Problems & Solutions Speaking Cards. Designed for ESL/EFL learners, these prompts support vocabulary development, fluency, reasoning, and critical thinking through a simple, high-engagement turn-based mingle routine.<br><br>With 48 problem-and-solution themed cards, students move around the classroom, meet new partners, ask and answer questions, swap cards, and repeat the cycle. This creates a highly interactive environment where every learner participates and practises authentic English in meaningful contexts.<br><br>A free blank template is included, allowing you to create additional questions tailored to your class level, unit theme, or learning goals.<br><br>What’s Included:<br>• 48 Problems & Solutions Question Cards – Explore real-life scenarios, everyday challenges, choices, consequences, and solutions<br>• Clear, accessible layouts – Designed specifically for ESL/EFL learners<br>• BONUS: Editable blank template – Create your own problem-solving prompts and extend the activity

Community - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring the concept of community to life in your ESL/EFL classroom with this engaging set of Community Vocabulary Mingle Cards. Designed for movement, interaction, and meaningful communication, this resource helps students practise key community-related vocabulary while taking part in a fun, turn-based whole-class mingle activity.<br><br>Students walk around the room, meet a partner, ask and answer a question, swap cards, and then move on to find someone new. This simple, repeatable routine provides countless speaking opportunities and ensures that every learner participates actively.<br><br>This set includes 48 carefully graded question cards, each linked to essential community vocabulary and real-world concepts. Learners build confidence as they speak, listen, question, respond, and engage with a wide range of community-focused topics.<br><br>You’ll also receive a free blank card template, allowing you to extend the set with your own community-themed questions tailored to any level or lesson focus.

Holidays & Travel - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Build confident communicators with this Travel & Holiday Vocabulary Activity designed for ESL/EFL learners. These cooperative speaking mingle cards get students moving, talking, listening, and reading in fast-paced partner exchanges that keep the entire class actively engaged at the same time. The routine is ideal for building confidence, fluency, and essential travel-themed vocabulary from A2 to B2 levels upwards.<br><br>Learners use prompts covering destinations, transport, accommodation, food, sightseeing, and everyday holiday situations. The movement-based format means students meet many partners, repeat useful language, and practise authentic communication in a low-pressure environment.<br><br>What’s Included:<br>• 48 Travel & Holiday speaking mingle cards and questions<br>• Clear prompts designed to encourage natural conversation<br>• Text or illustrated cues depending on the card type<br>• Teacher instructions for running a whole-class or small-group mingle<br>• Print-ready format for quick and easy preparation

Animal Habitats Edition Pick & Choose™ Activity Mats

Support Confident Group Work in Your EFL/ESL and Science Lessons, with This Animal Habitats Collaborative Role Mat - designed to help students work together effectively while exploring key science vocabulary and concepts.<br><br>The mat uses clear role prompts and visual cues to guide pupils through a structured small-group discussion routine, ensuring everyone contributes, shares ideas, and practises speaking and listening skills.<br><br>Ideal for both mainstream and EFL/ESL classrooms, this resource creates a supportive framework that helps learners talk about habitats with confidence and accuracy.<br><br>This resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kagan Cooperative Learning®.<br><br>What’s Included in Your Animal Habitats Table Mat Pack:<br><br>Collaborative Habitat Role Mat (Colour) – Visual cues help learners remember their discussion responsibilities<br>Collaborative Role Mat (Black & White Version) – Perfect for personalisation or low-ink printing<br>FREE Customisable Question Cards – Double-sided, flexible templates for creating your own habitat discussion prompts

Jobs & Community Helpers - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Develop your learners’ confidence with this set of 48 ESL/EFL speaking cards focused on jobs and workplace vocabulary. Designed for dynamic whole-class mingle activities, rotating-partner exchanges, and other cooperative learning routines, these cards give every student multiple opportunities to ask questions, respond, and use new language in meaningful interactions.<br><br>Instead of passive vocabulary drills, learners move around the room, meet new partners, and engage in short, purposeful conversations that support real communicative development. The activity works well in EFL classrooms, ESL pull-out groups, mixed-ability classes, and mainstream lessons needing interactive, low-prep speaking tasks.<br><br>What’s included<br>• 48 job-themed speaking prompt cards<br>• A blend of vocabulary items, job-related questions, and quick-response prompts<br>• An editable blank template for additional custom questions<br>• A clear, consistent card design to keep sets easy to organise<br>• Teacher instructions outlining whole-class mingles, partner rotation, grouping options, and classroom management tips

Water Edition - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Engage your ESL and EFL students with these interactive Quiz-Quiz-Trade question cards on the topic of water. Based on Unit 3 of National Geographic's Reach Higher Curriculum, Book 2A - Water For Everyone - they're perfect for EFL, ESL, and general education classrooms.<br><br>This set includes 48 vocabulary and fact-based questions on the topic of water, along with questions based on the keywords from Unit 3 of National Geographic's Reach Higher book. They also include special questions designed to test spelling and enhance language skills and water topic knowledge.<br><br>How It Works: Students quiz each other by trading cards with questions and answers, encouraging peer learning and active participation. This cooperative learning activity is ideal for building vocabulary, comprehension, and speaking skills.<br><br>Benefits:<br>Interactive and Fun: Keeps students engaged with a game-based learning approach.<br>Flexible Use: Suitable for classroom warm-ups, group work, or review sessions.<br>Builds Knowledge: Helps students learn about the water cycle, water usage, and water-related vocabulary.<br>Versatile and Easy to Use: Once your learners know the Quiz-Quiz-Trade structure, you can pull these cards out an

Predator and Prey Edition Pick & Choose™ Activity Mats

Build confident speakers and deepen science understanding with this Predator–Prey Collaborative Discussion Mat — a structured, student-led routine designed to support purposeful talk, active listening, and meaningful interaction in small groups.<br><br>Perfect for science units on ecosystems, food chains, food webs, and animal interactions, this routine gives pupils a clear framework for discussing predator–prey relationships while strengthening oral language skills.<br><br>It is especially valuable for multilingual learners (EFL/ESL), who benefit from predictable routines, visual scaffolds, and opportunities to choose the language they feel ready to use.<br><br>This resource can be used in any classroom studying predator–prey dynamics, whether in Primary, Lower Secondary, EAL/EFL settings, mixed-ability groups, intervention lessons, or whole-class stations.<br><br>About the Pick ’n’ Choose™ Routine<br>This mat is built around Pick ’n’ Choose™, our choice-based speaking routine designed to make collaborative work more engaging and accessible. Unlike fixed-role structures, this routine introduces student choice at key points, giving learners greater ownership over discussion and more opportunity.

Easter Prepositions of Place - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Looking for an engaging Easter Prepositions of Place activity for your ESL/EFL learners? This high-energy speaking mingle routine gets students moving, talking, listening, and reading—all at the same time. Perfect for Grades 2–5, this spring-themed activity turns grammar practice into a lively classroom experience where every learner is active and involved.<br><br>Students circulate around the room, meet new partners, read their Easter prompt, ask and answer questions, trade cards, and repeat. The constant movement and repeated interactions help English learners build confidence, accuracy, and fluency while having fun with colourful Easter vocabulary and visual cues such as chicks, bunnies, eggs, lambs, and baskets.<br><br>What’s Included in Your Easter Prepositions of Place Card Pack:<br>• 40 double-sided Easter Prepositions of Place speaking cards<br>• Prompts using essential prepositions: in, on, under, behind, in front of, next to, between<br>• Clear teacher instructions for running the movement-based mingle activity<br>• Visuals designed to support emerging readers and English language learners

Habitats and Environments - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring science and language learning together with this engaging Habitat Q&A Trade Quiz Card Activity designed to get every student actively participating at the same time.<br><br>Perfect for ESL/EFL learners, primary science lessons, cooperative learning routines, and whole-class speaking practice, this resource combines reading, listening, speaking, movement, and content learning into one highly interactive activity.<br><br>Students mingle around the classroom asking and answering questions about different habitats while building confidence in oral communication and improving topic knowledge. And for teachers, the colour-coded habitat card sets make differentiation and classroom organisation quick, simple and flexible.<br><br>This resource includes 48 full-colour, double-sided question cards across 6 habitats - testing knowledge of the habitats' names, climates, and the animals that live there. Want to ensure thorough comprehension of the Arctic, Ocean, Jungle, Mountain, Savannah, and Desert? This is tool for you.<br><br>What’s Included in your habitat quiz card resource:<br><br>48 double-sided habitat Q&A trade cards<br>Q&A Trade quick-start guide<br>Classroom instruction poster

HalloweeN Prepositions of Place - Q&A Trade Cards - Whole Class Mingle Activity

Bring Halloween Prepositions of Place to life in your ESL/EFL classroom with this high-energy speaking mingle activity. Learners move around the room, rotate partners quickly, and use English in fast, repeated interactions that keep the whole class speaking, listening, and reading at the same time.<br><br>Perfect for seasonal grammar lessons, this activity combines movement, visuals, and communicative practice to make spatial language memorable and fun.<br>Students describe spooky Halloween scenes featuring witches, zombies, pumpkins, ghosts, and creepy objects positioned around a variety of haunted settings. The visuals support comprehension and help all learners - especially ELLs - learn and use prepositions confidently.<br><br>What’s Included:<br>• 40 double-sided Halloween Prepositions of Place speaking cards<br>• Prompts using essential prepositions: in, on, under, behind, in front of, next to, between<br>• Clear teacher instructions for running an efficient, movement-based mingle<br>• Visuals designed to support emerging readers and English learners

EFL ESL Clothes - Q&A Trade Mingle Activity Question Cards

ESL Clothes & Clothing Vocabulary | Beginner English Speaking Activity Cards<br>Get beginner English learners speaking, listening, reading and moving with 48 printable clothes and clothing Q&A cards.<br><br>This cooperative ESL speaking activity combines clothing vocabulary, colours, numbers and beginner grammar with repeated question-and-answer practice.<br><br>Learners work with different classmates to ask, answer, check and swap, so the whole class gets repeated opportunities to speak rather than relying on teacher-led questioning.

Halloween Monster Jigsaw Reading Activity - Cooperative Learning Task Cards and Activity

Transform your classroom into a world of horror with our Famous Legendary Monsters Jigsaw Reading Cards Activity for ESL, EFL and mainstream students. Perfect for Halloween lessons, group discussion, and more.<br><br>This set of Famous Legendary Monsters Reading Cards combines reading comprehension, cooperative learning, and cultural exploration — making it the perfect choice for Halloween lessons or any time your students need a dose of intrigue and adventure.<br><br>Designed for A2–B2 ESL and EFL learners, this cooperative learning resource introduces your class to some of the world’s most iconic monsters while developing key reading, speaking, vocabulary, and teamwork skills through the Jigsaw Reading structure.<br><br>Each student becomes an “expert” on a different creature, then teaches their group what they’ve learned — ensuring equal participation, active speaking, and genuine collaboration in every lesson.

Unusual Predators Jigsaw Reading Task - Cooperative Learning Reading Activity

Want an engaging Reading Activity for ESL/EFL and Science Lessons? Bring your classroom to life with this, unique, visually rich, and highly engaging Jigsaw Reading resource that gets kids talking, collaborating, and reading together.<br><br>Featuring 15 stunning full-colour cards on unusual and little-known and unusual animal predators, this set of Jigsaw reading cards helps learners build reading fluency, expand scientific vocabulary, and collaborate meaningfully through structured information-sharing tasks.<br><br>Designed for A2–B1/B2 English learners, these cards offer accessible, high-interest content that captures curiosity and encourages deeper thinking about habitats, prey relationships, and surprising animal behaviours.

Cooperative Learning Project Role Mats

Give your students clear responsibilities and purposeful collaboration with these Group Work Roles Mats, designed for teams of 3, 4, or 5 learners. Each mat assigns specific student team job, that helps groups stay focused, organised, and accountable during any collaborative task.<br><br>These visual, student-friendly tools support smoother group processes, stronger communication, and more equal participation—ideal for mainstream, mixed-ability, and EFL/ESL classrooms where clarity and structure make a real difference.<br><br>Included With Your Group Work Roles Mats Purchase: Mats for teams of 3, 4, and 5 students, full-colour versions of the Team Mats, customisable black-and-white versions of the Team Mats, clear, accessible role descriptions for all student jobs - snd more!

Cooperative Learning Team Mats

Our team mats keep classrooms organised and instantly enhance your cooperative learning environment. Ideal for organising students and team activities, this versatile collection of nine cooperative learning mats is perfect for all well-known cooperative learning structures.<br><br>They support effective small-group organisation, promote student participation, and help structure collaborative tasks in a clear, student-friendly way, and facilitate cooperative learning structures.<br><br>What's Included:<br>• 1 X Team Mat - for the recommended team size of 4 learners (Group-Facing)<br>• 1 X Team Mat - for the recommended team size of 4 learners (Board-Facing)<br>• 1 X Team Mat - for groups of 3 learners<br>• 2 X Team Mats - for groups of 5 (original colourway + updated compact design)<br>• Black & White versions - of 3, 4 (x2), and 5 team member mats

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