teaching IT vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 90 min
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Scrum for IT – Agile Project Management (teaching IT vocabulary)

Technology

Teaching IT vocabulary is going to be fun for your ESL students when you focus on some key project-related vocabulary and comparing Scrum to Waterfall.

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.

eggcorns
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min
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Eggcorns: funny linguistic errors

General

This worksheet looks into an interesting linguistic phenomenon, i.e. eggcorn. Students will learn the term and identify top 10 most common eggcorns.

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.

passive voice
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How is bubble gum made (passive voice)

Grammar Technology

Teach your students how to use passive voice to talk about processes and discover how bubble gum is made.

asking questions
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Questions no one knows the answers to

General Grammar

This TED Talk lesson plan on asking questions includes exercises on both indirect and direct questions and makes students use them a lot in speaking.

English interactive video lesson
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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The ethical dilemma of driverless cars

Technology

In this interactive video lesson, students will have to consider the ethical dilemmas that a self-driving car needs to make, and they will learn new phrases.

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.

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.

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.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Your online life is permanent

Technology

ESL video lesson plan for B1students that focuses on privacy online and how what we do on the internet leaves a permanent trace.

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.

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.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Will we lose our jobs to machines?

Technology

This lesson focuses on the future of work and whether robots will take our jobs or not. Watch a TED Talk with your students and have a debate!

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