the history of the hoodie
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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The humble hoodie

Lifestyle

In 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.

verb formation
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Do you need all this stuff? (verb formation)

Global Issues Lifestyle

In 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.

lesson plan on saving the planet
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Plogging ‐ make yourself and the planet better

Global Issues Lifestyle

This 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.

Future Continuous and Future Perfect
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Have an eye on the future

Grammar Technology

The 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.

lesson plan on describing products
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Apple’s legendary keynotes

Business Lifestyle

The objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.

lesson plan on hygge
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Embrace the Danish way of living

Lifestyle

In 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.

lesson plan on social media
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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TikTok and other social media: fun or threat?

Lifestyle Technology

Lesson 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.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Art or prank?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan about Banksy and Maurizio Cattelan deals with controversial art. Students watch 2 videos, discuss some artwork and decide: art or prank!

narrative tenses
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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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.

telling stories in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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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.

graffiti lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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When graffiti ends up in art galleries

Lifestyle

This ESL graffiti lesson plan is based on a TV report on street art and will encourage your students to learn new vocabulary and discuss this modern art form.

stress management lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Stress? Let’s deal with it!

Business Lifestyle

Use our stress management lesson plan to teach phrases with the word stress and discuss how to cope with workplace stress and how it affects your life.

sports vocabulary
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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The changing face of sport (sports vocabulary)

Lifestyle

This B1 lesson plan is our attempt to touch upon the topic of sport, and introduces a lot of sports vocabulary. It is based on a video featuring teenage girls who are professional boxers.

esl material
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to escape a high cost of housing

Lifestyle

This lesson is based on a short video connected with less conventional alternatives to buying a house which are cheaper, but still amazing.

expressing preference
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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The smartphone problem

Grammar Lifestyle Technology

This B2 (upper-intermediate) video lesson plan touches the issue of smartphone addiction and structures for expressing preference.

lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why are Brits so obsessed with tea?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan looks into the tea-drinking habit in the UK and teaches students some useful British idioms and phrases. You must make yourself a cup of tea before this lesson.

English lesson plan for adults
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Colour psychology – idioms

General Lifestyle

This lesson plan for adults only looks into the world of colours and how they are used in the movie industry. Students will also learn different colour idioms.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

Lifestyle

The focus of this worksheet is discussion. Students will have a lot of opportunities to speak about such topics as childhood and parenting.

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