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Political cartoons and freedom of speech
Global Issues GrammarHave some fun and develop your students’ critical thinking skills with our new political cartoon lesson plan based on the work of Patrick Chappatte!
Standard Lesson 75 min
Happiness vs consumerism lesson plan
Global IssuesAward-winning video inspired us to create a consumerism lesson plan for teaching English. Use it to bring an important topic to the classroom and teach new vocabulary!
Flipped Lesson 30 min
The story of Frida Kahlo (+ Advanced Tense Review)
General GrammarGet your students interested in the life and work of Frida Kahlo and check their knowledge using our interactive video focused on advanced tense review!
Standard Lesson 30 min
Movie quotes you should know!
Grammar LifestyleWith this worksheet, your students will learn some classic movie quotes, use them to practise reporting verbs and do some fun pairwork activity.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Practise reported speech with Vogue interviews
Grammar LifestyleUse Vogue 73 Qs interviews to teach your students reported speech with our original lesson plan and discover new facts about their favourite celebrities!
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? (passive structures)
General GrammarTeach your students advanced passive structures and discover the world of weird conspiracy-thinking and tin-foil hat men.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Invest in travelling instead of stuff
Global IssuesThis travelling lesson plan deals with travelling as collecting experiences. Students will practise building words and learn vocab related to travelling.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Using Agile for your family life (conditionals review)
Grammar TechnologyUse this flipped lesson plan to do conditionals review, teach your students new vocab and practise using new language items orally.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Climate change
Global IssuesThis climate change lesson plan is prepared for B2 students, touches upon the environmental issues and is based on a speech by Greta Thunberg.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
What rights should animals have?
Global IssuesThis flipped classroom worksheet is all about animal rights and is based on a TED Talk about the great work some lawyers do to treat chimpanzees better.
Standard Lesson 45 min
How to fight cyberbullying – lesson plan for teenagers
Global Issues LifestyleThis cyberbullying lesson plan is perfect both for your teenage ESL learners as well as parents. Learn, watch and discuss with ESL Brains lesson plans!
Standard Lesson 30 min
Verb patterns – changes in meaning
GrammarUsing this worksheet, you will teach your students some verbs that change their meanings when they are followed by a gerund or an infinitive.
Standard Lesson 75 min
What’s the future of baby boomers? (verb patterns)
Global Issues GrammarThis lesson plan for upper-intermediate students focuses on the topic of retirement and includes verb patterns exercises and a debate point.
Standard Lesson 30 min
Slow fashion: an alternative to fast fashion
Global Issues LifestyleThis slow fashion worksheet includes a bunch of adjectives to talk about the fashion industry and gives students a lot of speaking opportunities.
Standard Lesson 45 min
The problem with fast fashion
Global Issues LifestyleThis lesson plan focuses on the issue of fast fashion and engages students in a discussion about fashion and the environment in the 21st century.
Standard Lesson 60 min
The smartphone problem
Grammar Lifestyle TechnologyThis B2 (upper-intermediate) video lesson plan touches the issue of smartphone addiction and structures for expressing preference.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Problems with the education system (learning collocations)
Global IssuesWhat’s wrong with the schooling system? This education lesson plan focuses on learning collocations, a video presenting 6 problems and a group debate.
Standard Lesson 45 min
How false news can spread
Global IssuesThis lesson plan focuses on fake news and circular reporting. Students will also have to decide whether some news stories are fake or true.