Category: Lifestyle
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Posh and fancy (Past Simple and Continuous practice)
Grammar LifestyleEngage in revising Past Simple and Continuous and discussing fancy experiences with this lesson! Students explore vocabulary to talk about the topic, watch a humorous ad for a ketchup brand and create interesting stories.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Being unproductive (uses of gerund)
Grammar LifestyleIs productivity the best policy when it comes to days off? Encourage your students to tell you how they chill at weekends using gerunds.
Standard Lesson 60 min
A place to get things done
Grammar LifestyleThis ESL lesson on getting things done and deadlines includes a range of speaking, vocabulary and grammar activities. Students talk about deadlines, learn useful vocabulary and grammar structures, watch a video and have engaging conversations.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Food culture, coffee culture
Grammar LifestyleIn this ESL lesson about coffee and food culture students have a lot of discussion, watch a video, study nouns that can be both countable and uncountable, and have a lot of fun practice.
Standard Lesson 60 min
How to be happy
Grammar LifestyleIn this lesson, students watch a video and learn how to use reflexive pronouns. They also talk about happiness.
Standard Lesson 60 min
7,000 ways of seeing the world
Grammar LifestyleIn this lesson about languages, students watch a video, discuss whether languages change the way we see the world, and learn how to use ellipsis.
Standard Lesson 90 min
I’ve been doing it for a week and I love it!
Grammar LifestyleThis lesson combines a topic of hobbies and Present Perfect Continuous. Students learn new phrases related to hobbies, watch a video and discuss it. There is also a grammar section that lets students discover rules and put them into practice.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
Senior roommates
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, students talk about the idea of senior citizens living together, do a word formation activity, and discuss retirement.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
Will we wear fish skin?
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, students talk about the fashion industry and use advanced vocabulary to praise or criticise someone or something.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
On the way to zero food waste
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, intermediate students discuss food waste, share some tips on how not to waste food and learn some useful vocabulary.
Standard Lesson 60 min
You’re never too old for great things
Grammar LifestyleIn this lesson, students learn the differences between Present Perfect and Past Simple. They also practise using the two tenses, watch a video and talk about active lives of elderly people.
Standard Lesson 90 min
Families – extended, nuclear, chosen
Global Issues LifestyleIn this advanced speaking lesson students will practise some vocabulary and watch a video about the history of the nuclear family. They will also discuss some statistics and talk about the changing family model.
Standard Lesson 60 min
I’ve lived here for ten years (Present Perfect + for/since)
Grammar LifestyleWith this lesson plan, students learn how to create sentences in Present Perfect with for and since, and when to use them. They also watch a video about a 12-year-old painter and practise using the tense.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
Are we becoming less materialistic?
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson, students talk about materialism and how the pandemic influenced our view of material gains, and do a transformation task.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
How much control should the state have over children’s upbringing?
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson students engage in a discussion on the control the state should have over children’s upbringing and discover some vocabulary related to the topic.
Standard Lesson 60 min
When in Rome…
Grammar LifestyleIn this culture lesson students talk about social norms in different parts of the world. They also watch four short videos about polite behaviour in different cultures and write a blog post with advice for foreigners visiting their country.
Critical Reading Club 30 min
Co-living: an answer to housing and social issues
Global Issues LifestyleIn this lesson students learn and practise some interesting vocabulary related to co-living apartments, while discussing positive and negative aspects of this modern trend.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Today’s teens are going through a lot (cause and effect)
Grammar LifestyleIn this lesson, students learn and practise expressing cause and effect, discover new collocations and discuss problems faced by modern teenagers.