Level: B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsWould you like to work a four-day week? (listening for details)
BusinessIn this lesson students will watch a video on a four-day work week, improve their listening for details skills and and reflect on the positive and negative aspects of working four days a week.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsHow does silence make you feel?
GeneralIn this lesson students discover the power of silence, work on improving their listening skills and focus on reported speech practice.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsUnusual ways of using food
Design & Art GeneralIn this lesson about foodscape design, students practise listening, reflect on unusual ways of using food and learn several food idioms through a series of written and oral exercises.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsMastering small talk
Business GeneralIn this lesson students practise their listening skills with an engaging video about making small talk in English, learn several phrasal verbs and sharpen their small talk skills through a series of speaking activities.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsHow to work with people who get under your skin
BusinessThis lesson plan is based on a video about how to deal with difficult relationships at work and includes two business English role plays.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsA super-duper language phenomenon (reduplication in English)
GeneralIn this lesson about reduplication in English students discover the meaning of common reduplicatives and practise them in everyday conversations.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsDo we need each other? (synonyms of the word important)
General TechnologyIn this lesson students engage in a discussion about human relationships. They discover synonyms of the word important, watch a video and reflect on the future of face-to-face interaction.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWhodunit (practise past modals with riddles)
GeneralIn this lesson based on whodunits, students get an opportunity to practise past modals with riddles and speculate about murder mysteries.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsHow beauty filters are changing the way we want to look
GeneralIn this lesson inspired by a video about body dysmorphia students revise and practise the different uses of Present Continuous as well as reflect on the influence of beauty filters on teenagers’ lives.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsThe humble hoodie
Design & Art GeneralIn this lesson about the history of the hoodie, your students will discover the origins of this iconic garment (and some others) and learn several adjectives for talking about clothes.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsDo you need all this stuff? (verb formation)
General Global IssuesIn this lesson based on a video about minimalism students get an opportunity to practise verb formation (exploring prefixes and suffixes) and reflect on their lifestyles.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsHe couldn’t have seen a ghost!
GeneralIn this grammar lesson, students learn a few idioms for expressing emotions, discover how to use past modals as well as practise them in speaking activities.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsHow do you like your milk?
GeneralIn this lesson, students will learn advanced cooking verbs, discuss different types of milk and do an English class project.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsThe next big thing after smartphones
General TechnologyWith this lesson plan, students will watch an interesting video about microchipping, learn vocabulary for expressing advantages and disadvantages and discuss the technology that might replace smartphones.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsImmediate response (not) required
BusinessThis lesson plan deals with synchronous and asynchronous communication. Apart from doing listening comprehension tasks, students will build adjectives with negative prefixes and learn some communication idioms.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsPlogging ‐ make yourself and the planet better
Global IssuesThis lesson plan on saving the planet deals with plogging, i.e. the idea of picking up litter while jogging. The worksheet consists of a few vocab exercises and includes a lot of words used when talking about waste and littering.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsDecision time (business case study)
BusinessThanks to this business case study worksheet, students learn phrasal verbs to talk about companies, watch a video presenting a case study and discuss situations when companies face different problems.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWill they find out I’m a fraud? Imposter syndrome
GeneralLearn about the imposter syndrome, discover what Michelle Obama has to do with it and discuss how to cope with it.
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