Level: B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Can you imagine the world without music?
GeneralThanks to this lesson plan on music, students learn adjectives for describing music and watch a video in which musicians talk about emotions music evokes.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Have an eye on the future
General TechnologyThe objective of this lesson plan is to make students learn and use Future Continuous and Future Perfect. Apart from a few grammar tasks, students will also watch an interesting video and have a lot of opportunities to speak.
Standard Lesson 90 min

Question Time – Let’s have a panel show!
GeneralIn this lesson, students read two short texts about a TV series, The Crown and a panel show, Question Time, learn useful language for agreeing and disagreeing, and have a panel show.
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Ditch the lawn
GeneralIn this flipped lesson plan on gardening, students learn a few verbs, watch a video about turning lawns into gardens as well as discover the meanings of some expressions with the word ‘green’.
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Apple’s legendary keynotes
Business Design & ArtThe objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Embrace the Danish way of living
GeneralIn this lesson plan on hygge, students do a word formation task built around the words such as ambience, cosiness or indulgence, and talk about the concept of hygge.
Flipped Lesson 60 min

England’s most eccentric dresser
Design & ArtThanks to this lesson plan, students will learn and practise adjectives for describing clothes and outfits as well as watch a TED Talk by Daniel Lismore.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Good news or bad news, which do you want first?
Business GeneralThis lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Black Friday is coming
GeneralThis lesson plan about Black Friday includes some useful vocabulary and introduces words for showing differences such as although, despite or nevertheless.
Flipped Lesson 90 min

Is it too late to save wildlife?
Global IssuesIn this lesson plan on extinction, students learn a lot of related vocabulary, watch a video featuring David Attenborough and work on a group project.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Do health and wellness apps really work?
TechnologyThis health and wellness lesson plan focuses on a discussion about health‐related issues and applications offered by employers in the workplace.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Easier to eat than pronounce
GeneralThe 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min

The limits of human memory
GeneralThis lesson plan on memory is about the verbs: remember, recall, recollect and remind, and is based on a video about a person with a super memory.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Mixed conditionals for Business English
BusinessThe lesson plan introduces the rules of mixed conditionals and makes Business English learners practise them through various activities.
Standard Lesson 45 min

At a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms
GeneralThis 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Just say it! Differences between say, tell, speak and talk
GeneralThis lesson plan deals with the difference between say, tell, speak and talk. Students get exercises that help them understand uses of these verbs.
Flipped Lesson 60 min

TikTok and other social media: fun or threat?
General TechnologyLesson plan on social media based on a video about TikTok. Students will discuss different social media and talk about concerns over the use of them.
Standard Lesson 60 min

How to combat plastic packaging
Global IssuesUse our lesson plan about packaging to teach your students some packaging types and materials, revise vocabulary related to recycling as well as watch an interesting video presenting three companies and their approach to plastic packaging.
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