Level: B2 / Upper Intermediate
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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 45 min
Ditch the lawn!
LifestyleIn 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 LifestyleThe 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
LifestyleIn 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 30 min
England’s most eccentric dresser
LifestyleThanks 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 45 min
Black Friday is coming!
LifestyleThis lesson plan about Black Friday includes some useful vocabulary and introduces words for showing differences such as although, despite or nevertheless.
Flipped Lesson 75 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
Business GrammarThe 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?
Lifestyle 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.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
How unconscious bias affects your chances of getting a job
BusinessThis lesson plan about recruitment deals with unconscious bias among recruiters. The worksheet includes a lot of vocabulary as well as word formation tasks and includes a TED Talk by Gail Tolstoi-Miller.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Art or prank?
LifestyleThis lesson plan about Banksy and Maurizio Cattelan deals with controversial art. Students watch 2 videos, discuss some artwork and decide: art or prank!
Standard Lesson 30 min
AMA: Ask Me Anything
GeneralThis 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!
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Give it a shot for 30 days! (+ 30-day English challenge)
LifestyleThis lesson plan is based on a popular TED Talk by Matt Cutts about taking 30-day challenges. It consists of vocabulary and speaking activities, and includes a 30-day English challenge.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
This is why you procrastinate
LifestyleThis procrastination lesson plan includes a lot of different exercises that let students have some fun, learn useful vocabulary and talk about their attitude towards procrastinating and ways to stop it.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Narrative tenses – using Past Simple/Continuous/Perfect for storytelling
GrammarThis lesson plan focuses on narrative tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect. It can serve as a great revision of these three tenses.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Be a better storyteller
GrammarThis lesson plan is all about telling stories in English and it might be a great supplement to lesson plans on narrative tenses.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Love is not always a bed of roses
GeneralThis lesson plan includes tasks built around love and relationship vocabulary, but mainly words and expressions we use when things go wrong in a relationship.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Finding the perfect match (online dating lesson plan)
LifestyleThanks to this online dating lesson plan, you will introduce your students to the world of dating apps as well as teach them love and relationship vocab.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
What is your signature dish? (cooking lesson plan)
LifestyleThe worksheet is prepared for B2 students and consists of various vocabulary activities that will help them create their own recipes in English.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Inclusive language
Business Global IssuesWe developed this worksheet to teach some inclusive language. In this one-page handout, students will learn what inclusive language is and discover some examples of both inclusive and exclusive language.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
How to master working from home
Business GrammarThanks to this ESL lesson plan your students will learn some useful vocabulary, study verb patterns and watch a video about tips for working from home.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Functional language for online meetings
BusinessTeach 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
How animals help humans
GeneralPractise new vocabulary. Work on your students’ listening skills and let them talk about how animals can help heal veterans and let them get back to society.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Hold your horses! – Horse idioms
GeneralThe worksheet is built around the word ‘horse’. It includes eight horse idioms which are introduced through various tasks. Your students will discover the meanings of new idioms, see in what context they can be used and practise them in writing.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Now I get it! – phrases with get
GeneralA lesson plan which is built around phrases with the verb ‘get’. It is prepared for stronger students (B2) and consists of various tasks.
Flipped Lesson 30 min
Can you find hidden messages in these logos?
LifestyleThis ESL logos lesson plan is based on a video about the hidden meanings of some logos and consists of different vocabulary and speaking activities that will get students talking about brand logos.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
How to live 100 years and more
LifestyleThis longevity lesson plan will make your students work at home on a video as well as on word formation, and discuss ideas about living 100+ years.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Natural disasters – vocabulary extension
GeneralThis worksheet focuses on vocabulary. Apart from natural disasters, students will also learn words and phrases commonly used in news headlines.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)
GeneralTeach your students new expressions and phrasal verbs with take, and challenge them to take a quiz checking their knowledge about different countries.
