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Waste less (First Conditional)

Global Issues

In this lesson students practise the use of First Conditional, watch a video about grocery shopping and discuss how we can waste less. 

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Is science denial worse than it’s ever been?

Global Issues Technology

With this lesson plan, students reflect on a video about the role of science in the modern world, expand their vocabulary and hold a lively class debate.

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Closing the gender pay gap

Business Global Issues

With this lesson plan, students talk about gender stereotypes, watch a video and discuss the factors driving the gender pay gap. They also reflect on solutions to this problem and discover some expressions with the word root.

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Tackling the world’s most pervasive issues

Global Issues

With this lesson plan on global problems students will learn some advanced language (adjectives and verbs) to talk about the world’s issues. They’ll also watch a video about reducing food insecurity.

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Should junk food be taxed?

Global Issues

In this lesson about diet and obesity, students reflect on the factors contributing to the problem of obesity, listen to a news report and learn some words and phrases related to health.

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Anxiety-free news

Global Issues

In this lesson about anxiety-free news, students learn and practise positive and negative adjectives and reflect on the impact of news stories on our lives.

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Trees – an essential part of cities

Global Issues

In this lesson, students will watch a video about the important role of trees in urban areas, answer multiple choice questions and learn several (advanced) collocations and expressions related to the topic of green cities. 

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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. 

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Do you need all this stuff? (verb formation)

Global Issues Lifestyle

In this lesson based on a video about minimalism students get an opportunity to practise verb formation (exploring prefixes and suffixes) and reflect on their lifestyles.

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How to combat plastic packaging

Global Issues

Use 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.

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Vegan economy

Business Global Issues

With our veganism lesson plan, students will learn new food-related words and expressions, watch a news report and discuss veganism and its pros and cons.

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How celebrities want to make a difference

Global Issues

Our lesson plan about celebrities looks into what they can do to make a difference and why their civil disobedience might be important.

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What geotagging does to nature (adjectives for describing places)

Global Issues

This lesson plan deals with the effect of Instagram and Facebook on nature! It focuses on teaching adjectives synonyms used for describing places.

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Problems with the education system (learning collocations)

Global Issues

What’s wrong with the schooling system? This education lesson plan focuses on learning collocations, a video presenting 6 problems and a group debate.

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Understanding war through game theory

Global Issues

War and politics are not standard ESL topics, but these concepts are important. Why not use our ESL lesson plan to put them into your curriculum?

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For these women, reading is a daring act

Global Issues Grammar

The TED Talk that the worksheet is based on touches upon the problem of women’s illiteracy and education. It is a great starting point for the discussion on gender inequality in general and that’s what the lesson is about.