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Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsCould you live without your sense of smell?
GeneralIn this lesson students practise their listening skills, revise sense verbs and learn to describe objects using sense verbs and adjectives.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsKindness means everything (irregular past forms)
General GrammarIn 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWhen bad means good
GeneralIn 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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Add to saved lessonsHow does silence make you feel?
General GrammarIn this lesson students discover the power of silence, work on improving their listening skills and focus on reported speech practice.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsA super-duper language phenomenon (reduplication in English)
GeneralIn this lesson about reduplication in English students discover the meaning of common reduplicatives and practise them in everyday conversations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsThe magic of making sounds
General LifestyleIn 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWhodunit (practise past modals with riddles)
General GrammarIn this lesson based on whodunits, students get an opportunity to practise past modals with riddles and speculate about murder mysteries.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessons’You’re kidding!’ and other quick responses
GeneralThis lesson focuses on common English responses used as spontaneous reactions in daily life. Students get the opportunity to practise them through a variety of activities, including an interactive video.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsShould we be faking it? The placebo effect
GeneralThis lesson plan on the placebo effect is packed with vocabulary (verb + noun collocations) and speaking activities. Students will also watch a video about placebos and their pros and cons.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsA glossary of coronaspeak
GeneralThis 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.
Standard Lesson 90 min
Add to saved lessonsQuestion Time – Let’s have a panel show!
GeneralIn 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsHave you tried turning it off and on again?
GeneralIn this lesson plan, ESL students will do a lot of different activities and learn words and expressions for talking about problems and solutions.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsHave yourself a merry little Christmas!
GeneralThanks to this Christmas lesson plan, students discuss Christmas preparations, watch some TV commercials and write their own Christmas wishes.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsGood news or bad news, which do you want first?
Business GeneralThis lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsEasier to eat than pronounce
GeneralThe lesson plan focuses on the pronunciation of foreign food names. Students learn to pronounce such names in American and British English and have some fun.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsThe limits of human memory
GeneralThis 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsAt a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms
GeneralThis lesson plan deals with travel and transport idioms. Students get a lot of exercises to discover their meanings and practise them in writing as well as speaking.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsJust say it! Differences between say, tell, speak and talk
GeneralThis lesson plan deals with the difference between say, tell, speak and talk. Students get exercises that help them understand uses of these verbs.
