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Verb patterns – changes in meaning

Grammar

Using this worksheet, you will teach your students some verbs that change their meanings when they are followed by a gerund or an infinitive.

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What’s the future of baby boomers? (verb patterns)

Global Issues Grammar

This lesson plan for upper-intermediate students focuses on the topic of retirement and includes verb patterns exercises and a debate point.

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The smartphone problem

Grammar Lifestyle Technology

This B2 (upper-intermediate) video lesson plan touches the issue of smartphone addiction and structures for expressing preference.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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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Trends and fads: they come and go

Business Technology

Teach the difference between a trend and a fad and discuss how they affect business. Your students will also learn advanced phrases for expressing likelihood.