Level: B2 / Upper Intermediate

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Catching up made easy

Business

In this lesson about instant messaging, students watch a video, discuss the rules for instant messaging and write short messages to each other. 

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Visiting the art capital

Lifestyle

This lesson plan is all about New York. Students will discuss some quotes about New York, watch a video about art in this city and learn adjectives to describe art.

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Chasing the birds away (phrasal verbs with away)

General

In this lesson students learn and practise phrasal verbs with away, watch a video about a dog working at an airport and discuss the jobs dogs do.

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Rethinking your mindset

Business Lifestyle

With this speaking lesson plan, students watch a video about growth and fixed mindsets and get plenty of opportunities to discuss them. They also learn some collocations referring to challenges and development, as well as practise word formation.

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Can you figure it out? ESL vocabulary puzzles

Business

This is a set of ESL vocabulary puzzles rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the puzzles can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.

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The right to rest and other employment laws

Business

In this lesson students learn vocabulary related to the topic of employment law, watch a video about a new law passed in Portugal and share their views on employment regulations around the world.

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Today’s teens are going through a lot (cause and effect)

Grammar Lifestyle

In this lesson, students learn and practise expressing cause and effect, discover new collocations and discuss problems faced by modern teenagers.

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Would you like to work a four-day week? (listening for details)

Business

In 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.

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How to work with people who get under your skin

Business

This lesson plan is based on a video about how to deal with difficult relationships at work and includes two business English role plays.

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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

General

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

General

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

General

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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Narrative tenses – using Past Simple/Continuous/Perfect for storytelling

Grammar

This lesson plan focuses on narrative tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect. It can serve as a great revision of these three tenses.

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Be a better storyteller

Grammar

This lesson plan is all about telling stories in English and it might be a great supplement to lesson plans on narrative tenses.

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Functional language for online meetings

Business

Teach your students some basic functional language for online meetings that they need to know. Later practise that in real-life situations and have some fun watching a comedy sketch.

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Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)

General

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

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Me, my work and I – first Business English lesson plan

Business

What’s your idea for your first lesson with your adult students? Check out what we do on our first Business English lesson with new students.