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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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Chasing the birds away (phrasal verbs with away)

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In this lesson students learn and practise phrasal verbs with away, watch a video about a dog working at an airport and discuss the jobs dogs do.

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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

General Grammar

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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How are new words created?

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In this lesson about the origins of new words in English, students practise their listening skills, figure out the meanings of some newly formed words and eventually create their own new words.

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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 magic of making sounds

General Lifestyle

In this lesson based on a video about the art of creating sounds students learn some verbs for sounds and put them into practice through a series of creative activities. 

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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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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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How to ask better questions

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Teach your students not only how to form questions in English but also what types of questioning techniques they can use to get better answers.

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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.

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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.

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Texting is killing language

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This ESL lesson plan touches upon the development of language, especially in terms of SMS. Students will also practise writing text messages in English.