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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

Prepositions of Place - Q&A Trade Mingle Activity Question Cards

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

Engage your young learners with this highly interactive Q&A Trade activity. Designed to maximise speaking time, build confidence, and reinforce the core vocabulary of colours through cooperative learning and structured repetition. This low-prep ESL speaking activity uses simple, high-frequency language patterns to help beginners practise asking and answering the question:"What colour is it?"<br><br>With bright, engaging visuals and a clear, repetitive structure, students quickly build fluency while staying motivated and focused. This resource includes 88 full colour Q&A Trade cards, across two separate sets, and include decks for both US and UK spelling. A free Quick Guide and classroom poster is also included.

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

Unlock the world of food vocabulary with this interactive set of Food Vocabulary Speaking Cards, designed especially for ESL/EFL learners. This movement-based, turn-taking mingle activity helps students develop vocabulary, speaking fluency, listening skills, and cultural awareness through repeated peer interaction and meaningful communication.<br><br>Students move around the classroom, meet a partner, ask and answer a question, swap cards, and then continue mingling. This simple, high-engagement routine ensures that every learner speaks multiple times and practises new food-related language in a lively, student-centred environment.<br><br>This resource includes 48 food-themed question cards, with prompts that explore ingredients, cooking, food preferences, everyday situations, curiosities, and global cuisine. A dedicated sheet of spelling-focused questions is also included to reinforce food vocabulary through targeted practice. You’ll also receive a blank template, allowing you to create additional cards tailored to your lessons.

"How Many...?" ESL EFL Whole Class Mingle Q&A Trade Speaking Activity.

Practise How Many Questions, Plural Nouns, and There Is / There Are with this Active Speaking, whole class mingle Routine. Help beginner English learners confidently practise the question structure How many while reinforcing plural nouns and the grammar pattern there is / there are. Use this engaging Q&A Trade routine to get students moving, speaking, and repeating key beginner grammar structures many times in quick succession.

What is it? What are they? ESL EFL Speaking Activity Q&A Trade Question Cards

Pick 'N' Choose™

The flexible ESL EFL cooperative learning routine designed by Ethical English. Pick 'N' Choose strengthens listening, speaking, reading, thinking, and student collaboration in any topic, subject or classroom. Built around the research-proven principles of choice and learner autonomy, Pick 'N' Choose boosts engagement, supports multilingual learners, and accelerates progress across all curriculums. See our blog for more.

Unusual Jobs Jigsaw Reading Task - Cooperative Learning Reading Activity

Explore the World's most Unusual Jobs with engaging Jigsaw Reading! Are you ready to captivate your students with a cooperative learning Jigsaw reading activity that enhances their comprehension skills and introduces them to the world's most unique professions? <br><br>Our Unusual EFL ESL Jobs Jigsaw Reading Cards do just that! With all the information provided on them based on real-life unusual jobs, offering students a glimpse into the diverse world of bizarre careers.

Unusual Holidays Jigsaw Reading Cards - Cooperative Learning Activity and Task Cards

Inspire your students with these Unusual Holidays Jigsaw Reading Cards! This engaging set of 16 full-colour task cards introduces learners to some of the world’s most extraordinary travel destinations, while developing reading comprehension, travel vocabulary, speaking, listening, and teamwork skills through this cooperative learning method.<br><br>Designed for A2–B2 ESL and EFL learners, this resource transforms your reading lesson into a global adventure amongst friends — encouraging discussion, descriptive language, and cultural curiosity through vivid imagery and interactive learning. Students work together, discover breathtaking new destinations, and learn about unusual holiday locations around the world such as a hotel made of ice that melts away every year, Dracula's castle, diving with sharks or crocodiles, a village built for Hobbits that featured in The Lord of The Rings, and more!

Unusual Food Jigsaw Reading Cards - Cooperative Learning Reading Activity and Task Cards

Engage your students with this fascinating world-foods jigsaw reading activity! This expertly designed set of 16 full-colour, double-sided task cards invites learners to explore the world’s most unusual and intriguing foods while practising essential reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and collaborative learning skills.<br><br>Each professionally produced card features your distinctive EE classroom branding, giving your lessons a polished, consistent look. Designed specifically for A2–B2 English learners, this resource makes language learning engaging, visual, and culturally enriching.<br><br>

Unusual Homes Jigsaw Reading Cards - Cooperative Learning Reading Activity and Task Cards

This engaging set of 17 full-colour task cards introduces learners to some of the world’s most extraordinary homes, while developing reading comprehension, house and home vocabulary, speaking, listening, and teamwork skills through the cooperative learning method of The Jigsaw Reading Structure.<br><br>Designed for A2–B2 ESL and EFL learners, this resource transforms your reading lesson into a global adventure with friends — encouraging discussion, descriptive language, and cultural curiosity through vivid imagery and interactive learning.

Spelling Test Templates - Research Based and Graded Ability

Looking for a more effective, research-based way to assess spelling in your classroom? These Spelling Test Templates are grounded in peer-reviewed data and evidence-informed practice, helping you move beyond simple recall and towards meaningful spelling development from the very start.<br><br>Designed to support both beginner and more advanced learners, this resource combines practical classroom usability with a strong foundation in spelling research. A clear, teacher-friendly literature summary is included, outlining best practice in spelling assessment and explaining the theory behind these templates' designs, so you can feel confident not just in what you are using, but why they work.

Prepositions of Place - Task Card Matching Activities