English lesson plan for adults
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Colour psychology – idioms

General Lifestyle

This lesson plan for adults only looks into the world of colours and how they are used in the movie industry. Students will also learn different colour idioms.

fixed phrases for personal development
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Don’t be afraid to reject the self-improvement trend

Lifestyle

Discuss with your students how coaching and self-improvement affect them, and teach them and practise some common fixed phrases for personal development.

vocabulary lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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The history behind brunch

Lifestyle

The goal of the lesson is to teach students portmanteaus, that is linguistic blends of words. It includes most common blends that might be useful in everyday life.

Business English lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Unconventional career advice

Business

Business English lesson plan on career path for advanced (C1) students. Watch a video and talk about what is important for your career in the 21st century.

describing graphs in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Numbers don’t lie – graphs do

Business

The aim of the lesson is to teach students vocabulary and structures they can use while describing graphs in English, and how to spot distorted charts.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

Lifestyle

The focus of this worksheet is discussion. Students will have a lot of opportunities to speak about such topics as childhood and parenting.

Business English collocations
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to use technology to manage people better

Business

Teach your students Business English collocations, get your students engaged into a discussion on management and practise their listening skills.

health vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How healthy living nearly killed me

Lifestyle

This ESL worksheet is based on a TED Talk titled “How healthy living nearly killed me” by AJ Jacobs. The speaker discusses his experiences and approach to healthy living.

ESL lesson
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why you should know how much your co-workers get paid

Business

ESL lesson plan about getting paid. Teach students new vocabulary, test their grammar knowledge and engage in an interesting debate.

talking about a career break
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to relaunch your career after a break

Business

The lesson plan focuses on talking about career break and is based on a TED Talk which explains reasons for career breaks and how to come back to work after them.

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”.

expressing likes and dislikes
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Building a museum of museums on the web

Lifestyle

The lesson plan is about art and museums. Students have a lot of opportunities to express their likes and dislikes in these areas.

idioms on motivation
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 90 min
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How bosses demoralize their employees

Business

This Business English lesson will allow your students to learn and practise idioms on motivation used in business. They will also have plenty of opportunities to talk about how companies motivate and demotivate employees.

listening comprehension
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Got a meeting? Take a walk

Business

With our lesson plan, your students will practise listening comprehension, learn new informal phrases and watch an interesting TED talk.

ESL lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to make hard choices

Business

This ESL lesson plan focuses on making difficult decisions and helps students to understand how to approach the decision-making process.

ESL worksheet for adults
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Designers – think big!

Lifestyle

This ESL worksheet for adults focuses on design and design thinking. Students will also learn a lot of vocabulary connected with the topic.

career collocations
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why you will fail to have a great career

Business

This lesson plan focuses on pursuing career and passions. Students will learn collocations with the word career, discuss how to have a successful work life and watch an amusing speech.

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