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Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWhat’s in your bag?
GeneralThroughout this A2 lesson plan, students will learn vocabulary for things we carry in our bags and backpacks and watch two Vogue videos.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsWhat do you do?
BusinessThanks to this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan, students will learn useful words and phrases for describing companies and jobs.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsMy perfect weekend.
Phrasal verbs for beginners
General
The lesson plan deals with phrasal verbs for beginners. Students will discover meanings of nine phrasal verbs and practise them in various speaking activities.
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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsLessons in success from those you admire
Business GeneralWith this lesson plan, your students will talk about success, what they might learn from people they admire and their own experience. What’s more, they will learn a few common English collocations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsThe other side of fame
GeneralThis lesson plan about fame includes some related vocabulary as well as adjectives + prepositions that B1 students will learn and use in speaking.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsDanger! Pyramid schemes
BusinessThis worksheet for advanced English students deals with pyramid schemes. Throughout the lesson, students will learn a lot of vocabulary and express their opinions on ‘get rich quick’ schemes.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsWhen a crisis strikes, a good leader…
BusinessThis leadership lesson plan is based on a short video in which the speaker, Amy C. Edmondson gives advice on how to lead in crisis. The worksheet focuses on speaking and vocabulary activities for advanced students.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsImmediate response (non) 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsTime for bed, Fred!
– Robots at home
Technology
Thanks to this lesson plan, students will have plenty of opportunities to discuss robots and innovation as well as use language for speculation to talk about homes of the future.
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.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsShould we be faking it?
The placebo effect
General
This lesson plan on the placebo effect is packed with vocabulary (verb + noun collocations) and speaking activities. Students will also watch a video about placebos and their pros and cons.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsA glossary of coronaspeak
GeneralThis lesson plan is built around new words coined during the coronavirus pandemic. Students will guess their meanings and have a chance to use them in speaking.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsA house to feel at home in (describing houses)
Design & Art GeneralWith this lesson plan, you’ll teach students some useful vocabulary for describing houses. They will also watch two videos and speak about their dream houses.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsCan you imagine the world without music?
GeneralThanks to this lesson plan on music, students learn adjectives for describing music and watch a video in which musicians talk about emotions music evokes.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsHave an eye on the future
General TechnologyThe 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.
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