financial crimes vocabulary
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Financial crimes

General Global Issues

In this lesson, students practise vocabulary related to financial crimes and watch a video about money laundering. They also discuss real cases of financial fraud, read a film synopsis and talk about their personal opinions.

C2 / Proficiency
Critical Reading Club 30 min
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Will we wear fish skin?

Global Issues Lifestyle

In this lesson, students talk about the fashion industry and use advanced vocabulary to praise or criticise someone or something. 

multiple-choice cloze task
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Has cancel culture gone too far?

Global Issues

In this lesson students learn vocabulary useful to talk about cancel culture, do a CAE multiple-choice cloze task, watch a video, and get the opportunity to discuss cancel culture and freedom of speech in depth. 

lesson plan on extinction
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 75 min
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Is it too late to save wildlife?

Global Issues

In this lesson plan on extinction, students learn a lot of related vocabulary, watch a video featuring David Attenborough and work on a group project.

fear vocabulary
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min
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What might Bill Gates be worried about?

Global Issues

Discover what worries Bill Gates most and teach your students some fear-related vocabulary, useful adjectives for expressing opinions and practise them with a few speaking activities.

lesson plan about education
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Why Finland has the best education system

Global Issues

Use our lesson plan about education to learn about the Finnish school system, watch a part of Michael Moore’s documentary and discuss it with your students.

political cartoon lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Political cartoons and freedom of speech

Global Issues Grammar

Have some fun and develop your students’ critical thinking skills with our new political cartoon lesson plan based on the work of Patrick Chappatte!

consumerism lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Happiness vs consumerism lesson plan

Global Issues

Award-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!

climate change lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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Climate change

Global Issues

This climate change lesson plan is prepared for B2 students, touches upon the environmental issues and is based on a speech by Greta Thunberg.

honeybees lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Honeybees are important

Global Issues

This honeybees lesson plan is about beekeeping in cities and bees’ impact on our lives. The worksheet is based on a TED talk by Noah Wilson-Rich.

verb patterns
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min
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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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