Present Perfect activities
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Present Perfect activities

Grammar

With this lesson, students practise Present Perfect in various ways. They apply the tense to tell the news, discuss experiences and talk about life stories. Students also distinguish between Present Perfect and Past Simple, create funny questions using pictures and say if their classmates are telling the truth about things they have done.

ESL speaking lesson about generative AI
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min
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Generative AI tools – worth the hype?

Business Technology

In this ESL speaking lesson about generative AI, students listen to an excerpt from a podcast and talk about generative AI applications and the implications of this technology for different professionals.

how to use articles
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Renting a flat (articles)

General Grammar

In this grammar lesson students learn how to use articles (‘a/an’, ‘the’, no article). They listen to recordings, discuss renting a flat, and do grammar exercises. Students also have a role play. 

word order in English
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Excuse me, I am an apple (word order)

General Grammar

This worksheet focuses on the grammar topic of word order in English sentences. Students discuss language-learning apps, read about funny examples of sentences from Duolingo and have a lot of practice. 

Zero Conditional
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Life lessons and white lies

General Grammar

This grammar lesson helps students learn about and practise Zero Conditional. The worksheet includes a lot of speaking activities. Students also do a vocabulary exercise and learn the phrases related to the topic. 

Past Simple and Past Continuous
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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My dog ate my homework (Past Simple and Past Continuous)

Grammar

In this lesson, students learn the difference between Past Simple and Past Continuous. They also get the chance to practise using the two tenses in a variety of tasks.

verbs with prepositions
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Just ask it a question!

Business Technology

In this lesson, students learn and practise to use verbs with prepositions, as well as verbs without prepositions. They also read texts about virtual assistants and discuss the topic in depth using the new language.

giving a presentation
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Presentation: putting skills into action

Business

With this lesson plan, students practise giving a presentation in English by doing a lot of different speaking activities. The lesson is the third of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations. 

phrasal nouns lesson plan
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Layoffs and cutbacks can lead to start-ups (phrasal nouns)

Business

In this lesson, students read a short article about a start-up surge and learn some phrasal nouns by working out their meaning from the context. They also use the phrasal nouns in a discussion and a crossword.

quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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What is your city like? (too much, too many, enough/not enough)

Global Issues Grammar Lifestyle

In this lesson students practise the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns (too much, too many, (not) enough) while talking about typical problems faced by most cities. 

gerunds and infinitives
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Friends will be friends (gerunds and infinitives)

Grammar Lifestyle

In this grammar lesson students discover different verb patterns by doing a friendship quiz. To practise gerunds and infinitives, students will also express their views on different aspects of friendship.

Present Simple and Present Continuous
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Let’s revise Present Simple and Present Continuous

Grammar

This lesson plan is a typical grammar consolidation worksheet. Students revise Present Simple and Continuous and talk a lot using the tenses.

pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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What do you do?

Business

Thanks to this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan, students will learn useful words and phrases for describing companies and jobs.

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.

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