giving good and bad news in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Good news or bad news, which do you want first?

Business General

This lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.

foreign food names
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Easier to eat than pronounce

General

The 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.

used to
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Life used to be different

Grammar Lifestyle

Use our B1 lesson plan to teach your students how to use the structure of ‘used to’ and compare the school life now and then.

Past Simple revision
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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The stories of famous entrepreneurs

Business Grammar

This lesson plan is perfect for Past Simple revision. Students practise using the tense as well as learn vocabulary related to running a business.

Business English worksheet for B1
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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There’s no business without challenges

Business

This Business English worksheet for B1 students gives them opportunity to speak about different businesses and their challenges, and analyse case studies.

difference between say tell speak and talk
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Just say it! Differences between say, tell, speak and talk

General

This lesson plan deals with the difference between say, tell, speak and talk. Students get exercises that help them understand uses of these verbs.

already just yet
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Have you done it yet? Present Perfect: already, just, yet

Grammar

This lesson plan deals with Present Perfect and already, just, yet. We want to show students how to use these words in specific situations. Apart from practical tasks, students will also role-play two scenarios.

questions in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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AMA: Ask Me Anything

General

This 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!

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.

lesson plan on saving money
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Are you a saver or a spender?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan on saving money is prepared for B1 students. Thanks to it, they will learn a lot of vocabulary connected with money, have a lot of opportunities to speak (including a quiz) and do tasks in an interactive video.

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.

functional language for online meetings
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Functional language for online meetings

Business

Teach 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.

logos lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Can you find hidden messages in these logos?

Lifestyle

This 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.

phrases with take
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)

General

Teach your students new expressions and phrasal verbs with take, and challenge them to take a quiz checking their knowledge about different countries.

formal and informal email
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min
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Writing effective emails – formal and informal language

Business

Teach your B1 students some formal and informal email language and give them some tips on writing effectively with our ESL lesson plan on writing emails.

first Business English lesson
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Me, my work and I – first Business English lesson plan

Business

What’s your idea for your first lesson with your adult students? Check out what we do on our first Business English lesson with new students.

making comparisons
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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Printed books vs e-books – making comparisons

General Grammar

Teach your students how to make comparisons and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of printed books and e-books. This lesson plan can also be used as a standard lesson plan.

giving advice
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Giving advice and making suggestions

General Grammar

This worksheet focuses on giving advice and making suggestions. It is a standalone worksheet which can be used with many different lesson plans from our website.

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