Category: General

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Valentine’s Day activities

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Embark on a vocabulary journey discussing Valentine’s Day and relationships! Students talk about typical Valentine’s Day activities and some quotes, as well as about relationships and dating apps.

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Honest, creative or lazy? (personality adjectives)

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This worksheet on personality adjectives in English contains a lot of speaking activities that let students learn and practise new words. Students read short texts, discuss different personalities and talk about themselves. 

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Slow or slowly? – adjectives and adverbs

General Grammar

In this lesson students learn the difference between adjectives and adverbs and learn how to create adverbs of manner. They also practise their use in several controlled and free activities.

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When bad means good

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In this lesson students discover different meanings as well as expressions with good and bad. They also get an opportunity to put them into practice while reacting to some real-life situations.

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A super-duper language phenomenon (reduplication in English)

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In this lesson about reduplication in English students discover the meaning of common reduplicatives and practise them in everyday conversations.

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A glossary of coronaspeak

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This lesson plan is built around new words coined during the coronavirus pandemic. Students will guess their meanings and have a chance to use them in speaking.

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Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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In this lesson plan, ESL students will do a lot of different activities and learn words and expressions for talking about problems and solutions.

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Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

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Thanks to this Christmas lesson plan, students discuss Christmas preparations, watch some TV commercials and write their own Christmas wishes.

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Good news or bad news, which do you want first?

Business General

This lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.

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Easier to eat than pronounce

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The lesson plan focuses on the pronunciation of foreign food names. Students learn to pronounce such names in American and British English and have some fun.

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At a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms

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This lesson plan deals with travel and transport idioms. Students get a lot of exercises to discover their meanings and practise them in writing as well as speaking.

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Just say it! Differences between say, tell, speak and talk

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This lesson plan deals with the difference between say, tell, speak and talk. Students get exercises that help them understand uses of these verbs.

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AMA: Ask Me Anything

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This lesson plan is our attempt to make students ask more questions in English during the class. Students step into their teacher’s shoes and lead the class!

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How animals help humans

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Practise new vocabulary. Work on your students’ listening skills and let them talk about how animals can help heal veterans and let them get back to society.

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Hold your horses! – Horse idioms

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The worksheet is built around the word ‘horse’. It includes eight horse idioms which are introduced through various tasks. Your students will discover the meanings of new idioms, see in what context they can be used and practise them in writing. 

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Now I get it! – phrases with get

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A lesson plan which is built around phrases with the verb ‘get’. It is prepared for stronger students (B2) and consists of various tasks.

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Natural disasters – vocabulary extension

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This worksheet focuses on vocabulary. Apart from natural disasters, students will also learn words and phrases commonly used in news headlines.

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Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)

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Teach your students new expressions and phrasal verbs with take, and challenge them to take a quiz checking their knowledge about different countries.