climate change lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Climate change

Global Issues

This climate change lesson plan is prepared for B2 students, touches upon the environmental issues and is based on a speech by Greta Thunberg.

animal rights lesson
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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What rights should animals have?

Global Issues

This flipped classroom worksheet is all about animal rights and is based on a TED Talk about the great work some lawyers do to treat chimpanzees better.

cyberbullying lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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How to fight cyberbullying – lesson plan for teenagers

Global Issues Lifestyle

This cyberbullying lesson plan is perfect both for your teenage ESL learners as well as parents. Learn, watch and discuss with ESL Brains lesson plans!

worksheet about artificial intelligence
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Will AI create millions of jobs?

Technology

This worksheet about artificial intelligence consists of tasks built around an article and jobs that it will create rather than destroy.

word formation
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Artificial Intelligence in your everyday life (word formation)

Technology

In this lesson plan, your students will learn how AI technology is being used in our everyday lives and do word formation tasks focused on using suffixes.

verbs that change their meanings
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Verb patterns – changes in meaning

Grammar

Using this worksheet, you will teach your students some verbs that change their meanings when they are followed by a gerund or an infinitive.

verb patterns
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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What’s the future of baby boomers? (verb patterns)

Global Issues Grammar

This lesson plan for upper-intermediate students focuses on the topic of retirement and includes verb patterns exercises and a debate point.

slow fashion
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Slow fashion: an alternative to fast fashion

Global Issues Lifestyle

This slow fashion worksheet includes a bunch of adjectives to talk about the fashion industry and gives students a lot of speaking opportunities.

FASHION LESSON PLAN
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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The problem with fast fashion

Global Issues Lifestyle

This lesson plan focuses on the issue of fast fashion and engages students in a discussion about fashion and the environment in the 21st century.

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.

teaching IT vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 90 min
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Scrum for IT – Agile Project Management (teaching IT vocabulary)

Technology

Teaching IT vocabulary is going to be fun for your ESL students when you focus on some key project-related vocabulary and comparing Scrum to Waterfall.

learning collocations
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Problems with the education system (learning collocations)

Global Issues

What’s wrong with the schooling system? This education lesson plan focuses on learning collocations, a video presenting 6 problems and a group debate.

video lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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How false news can spread

Global Issues

This lesson plan focuses on fake news and circular reporting. Students will also have to decide whether some news stories are fake or true.

teaching english vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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What makes start-ups succeed?

Business Technology

This lesson plan focuses on start-ups as a business model. Students will learn useful jargon from the Silicon Valley and some collocations that will help them talk about start-ups and launching a new company.

structures of used to
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Sleep more! Your brain needs it! (+ structures of used to)

Grammar Lifestyle

The lesson plan includes exercises on idioms and fixed phrases connected with sleep, and focuses on different structures of “used to”.

environment lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Do the green thing!

Global Issues

The lesson is based on the TEDTalk by Andy Hobsbawm titled “Do the green thing” and it concerns a very important issue of the environment protection. The speaker introduces his idea of a creative approach to promoting nature preservation.

TED Talk lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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For these women, reading is a daring act

Global Issues Grammar

The TED Talk that the worksheet is based on touches upon the problem of women’s illiteracy and education. It is a great starting point for the discussion on gender inequality in general and that’s what the lesson is about.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Your online life is permanent

Technology

ESL video lesson plan for B1students that focuses on privacy online and how what we do on the internet leaves a permanent trace.

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