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Standard Lesson 60 min
Stress? Let’s deal with it!
Business LifestyleUse our stress management lesson plan to teach phrases with the word stress and discuss how to cope with workplace stress and how it affects your life.
Standard Lesson 60 min
The changing face of sport (sports vocabulary)
LifestyleThis B1 lesson plan is our attempt to touch upon the topic of sport, and introduces a lot of sports vocabulary. It is based on a video featuring teenage girls who are professional boxers.
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!
Standard Lesson 60 min
Filter bubbles (Internet vocabulary)
TechnologyTeach your students some Internet language, introduce them to the concept of filter bubbles through our interactive video and engage them in a discussion!
Standard Lesson 45 min
Is e-sport a sport?
Lifestyle TechnologyThis worksheet goes deeper into the world of video games, makes students explore esports and study some sport-related language.
Standard Lesson 60 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Telephone phobia (Telephone English phrases)
BusinessTeach your students how to use English over the phone using our Telephone English phrases and practical role plays as well as telephone etiquette tips.
Standard Lesson 90 min
The history and future of online advertising
BusinessTeach your students about the history of advertising on the Internet using our online advertising lesson plan and explore the future of online ads.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Artificial Intelligence in your everyday life (word formation)
TechnologyIn this lesson plan, your students will learn how AI technology is being used in our everyday lives and do word formation tasks focused on using suffixes.
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 60 min
The future of space exploration (lesson on making predictions)
Grammar TechnologyTalk with your students about SpaceX and future of space travel using this ESL lesson plan on making predictions and expressing probability.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Colour psychology – idioms
General LifestyleThis 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How is bubble gum made (passive voice)
Grammar TechnologyTeach your students how to use passive voice to talk about processes and discover how bubble gum is made.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Questions no one knows the answers to
General GrammarThis TED Talk lesson plan on asking questions includes exercises on both indirect and direct questions and makes students use them a lot in speaking.
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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
The ethical dilemma of driverless cars
TechnologyIn this interactive video lesson, students will have to consider the ethical dilemmas that a self-driving car needs to make, and they will learn new phrases.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Understanding war through game theory
Global IssuesWar and politics are not standard ESL topics, but these concepts are important. Why not use our ESL lesson plan to put them into your curriculum?
Standard Lesson 60 min
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
LifestyleThe focus of this worksheet is discussion. Students will have a lot of opportunities to speak about such topics as childhood and parenting.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How healthy living nearly killed me
LifestyleThis ESL worksheet is based on a TED Talk titled “How healthy living nearly killed me” by AJ Jacobs. The speaker discusses his experiences and approach to healthy living.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to relaunch your career after a break
BusinessThe lesson plan focuses on talking about career break and is based on a TED Talk which explains reasons for career breaks and how to come back to work after them.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Sleep more! Your brain needs it! (+ structures of used to)
Grammar LifestyleThe lesson plan includes exercises on idioms and fixed phrases connected with sleep, and focuses on different structures of “used to”.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Building a museum of museums on the web
LifestyleThe lesson plan is about art and museums. Students have a lot of opportunities to express their likes and dislikes in these areas.
Standard Lesson 90 min
How bosses demoralize their employees
BusinessThis Business English lesson will allow your students to learn and practise idioms on motivation used in business. They will also have plenty of opportunities to talk about how companies motivate and demotivate employees.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Do the green thing!
Global IssuesThe lesson is based on the TEDTalk by Andy Hobsbawm titled “Do the green thing” and it concerns a very important issue of the environment protection. The speaker introduces his idea of a creative approach to promoting nature preservation.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Got a meeting? Take a walk
BusinessWith our lesson plan, your students will practise listening comprehension, learn new informal phrases and watch an interesting TED talk.
Standard Lesson 60 min
For these women, reading is a daring act
Global Issues GrammarThe 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Your online life is permanent
TechnologyESL video lesson plan for B1students that focuses on privacy online and how what we do on the internet leaves a permanent trace.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to make hard choices
BusinessThis ESL lesson plan focuses on making difficult decisions and helps students to understand how to approach the decision-making process.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Why you will fail to have a great career
BusinessThis lesson plan focuses on pursuing career and passions. Students will learn collocations with the word career, discuss how to have a successful work life and watch an amusing speech.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Will we lose our jobs to machines?
TechnologyThis 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!
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to buy happiness
LifestyleThis ESL worksheet focuses on synonyms of words poor and rich and a discussion on money and happiness. It is prepared for B1+ (intermediate) students.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Why we have too few women leaders
BusinessThis worksheet based on Sheryl Sandberg’s talk “Why we have too few women leaders” focuses on gender equality and the perspective of Facebook’s COO on the problem of not enough women holding senior management positions.
Standard Lesson 60 min
The psychology of your future self
LifestyleDo you think you will change a lot in the future? Or maybe not at all? This lesson plan based on a short TED Talk will give your students many occasions to talk about their attitude towards change and their future selves.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to gain control of your free time
BusinessHave you ever wondered how successful people manage their time? Discover this with your advanced adult learners, teach them some time phrases and talk about time management.
Standard Lesson 60 min
The hidden power of smiling
LifestyleThis general English lesson plan is prepared for less proficient students (B1+) and focuses on the topic of smiling and the way it affects our lives.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Trends and fads: they come and go
Business TechnologyTeach the difference between a trend and a fad and discuss how they affect business. Your students will also learn advanced phrases for expressing likelihood.
