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Advanced vocabulary activities

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This is a set of ESL vocabulary activities rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the activities can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.

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How many pints in a litre?

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In this lesson students practise talking about measurements in English and watch a video about some issues caused by the differences between the metric and non-metric systems. They also discuss problems that people face because of these differences. 

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Let me tell you how I feel

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With this lesson plan, students watch a funny video about a girl who feels different emotions and learn adjectives to describe feelings. Students also get plenty of opportunities to speak about how they feel in different situations. 

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Is there an ‘a’ in ‘weak’? (spelling games)

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In this lesson, students learn how to ask for spelling clarification and get a lot of practice through several spelling games. 

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I wish I could but I don’t want to

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In this lesson students watch a video about strategies for saying ‘no’ in English and discover some useful phrases to say ‘no’ politely. They also put them into practice through a role-play.

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The things that we do when nobody is looking – defining relative clauses

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With this lesson plan students learn and practise using defining relative clauses. They also watch a short animated video and talk about the things that people do when they are alone. 

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What makes you laugh? (synonyms for laugh)

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In this lesson students study advanced synonyms for laugh, watch a video about laughter and discuss different aspects of laughter. 

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Are emojis making us dumber?

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In this lesson about emojis students not only learn words to describe some common features of nonverbal communication, but they also watch a video and reflect on the role of emojis in digital communication.

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Could you live without your sense of smell?

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In this lesson students practise their listening skills, revise sense verbs and learn to describe objects using sense verbs and adjectives.

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The limits of human memory

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This lesson plan on memory is about the verbs: remember, recall, recollect and remind, and is based on a video about a person with a super memory.

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AMA: Ask Me Anything

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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!

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Love is not always a bed of roses

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This lesson plan includes tasks built around love and relationship vocabulary, but mainly words and expressions we use when things go wrong in a relationship.

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Hold your horses! – Horse idioms

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The worksheet is built around the word ‘horse’. It includes eight horse idioms which are introduced through various tasks. Your students will discover the meanings of new idioms, see in what context they can be used and practise them in writing. 

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Natural disasters – vocabulary extension

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This worksheet focuses on vocabulary. Apart from natural disasters, students will also learn words and phrases commonly used in news headlines.

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Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)

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

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Commonly confused words in English

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The worksheet deals with commonly confused words in English and includes activities in which students study 16 pairs of confusing verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

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Idioms with fruit and veggies

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With this 2-page worksheet, your students will discover 14 common idioms with fruit and veggies and learn in what contexts they can be used.

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To make or to do, that is the question

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In this worksheet, we focus on make and do collocations students often confuse and then on more demanding fixed phrases with make and do.