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Life is better outdoors!

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In this lesson, students watch a video about Taiwan and practise vocabulary related to nature and free time activities.

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Put a ring on it

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In this lesson, students learn idioms and phrasal verbs with put. They also practise working out the meaning from context, and have an opportunity to use the new language in speaking activities. 

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Sharpen your critical thinking (CAE Speaking Part 3)

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With this lesson plan, students evaluate the validity of arguments using the information from a video about logical fallacies. They also practise conjunctions and do a Cambridge CAE Speaking Part 3 activity. 

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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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Slow or slowly? – adjectives and adverbs

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In this lesson students learn the difference between adjectives and adverbs and learn how to create adverbs of manner. They also practise their use in several controlled and free activities.

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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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Kindness means everything (irregular past forms)

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In this lesson based on a video about kindness, students revise irregular past forms, practise them by re-telling a story in the past and eventually tell their own stories.

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When bad means good

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In this lesson students discover different meanings as well as expressions with good and bad. They also get an opportunity to put them into practice while reacting to some real-life situations.

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A super-duper language phenomenon (reduplication in English)

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In this lesson about reduplication in English students discover the meaning of common reduplicatives and practise them in everyday conversations.

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A glossary of coronaspeak

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This lesson plan is built around new words coined during the coronavirus pandemic. Students will guess their meanings and have a chance to use them in speaking.

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Question Time – Let’s have a panel show!

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In this lesson, students read two short texts about a TV series, The Crown and a panel show, Question Time, learn useful language for agreeing and disagreeing, and have a panel show.