lesson plan on FinTech
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Know your FinTech vocabulary

Business Technology

Thanks to this lesson plan on FinTech, students will learn words from the financial technology industry. The worksheet focuses on vocabulary and is suitable for IT and e-commerce professionals.

vocabulary for expressing advantages and disadvantages
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

The next big thing after smartphones

Technology

With this lesson plan, students will watch an interesting video about microchipping, learn vocabulary for expressing advantages and disadvantages and discuss the technology that might replace smartphones.

language for speculation
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Time for bed, Fred! – Robots at home

Technology

Thanks to this lesson plan, students will have plenty of opportunities to discuss robots and innovation as well as use language for speculation to talk about homes of the future.

Future Continuous and Future Perfect
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Have an eye on the future

Grammar Technology

The objective of this lesson plan is to make students learn and use Future Continuous and Future Perfect. Apart from a few grammar tasks, students will also watch an interesting video and have a lot of opportunities to speak.

lesson plan about the internet
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Beaming the internet from space

Technology

In this lesson plan about the internet students will learn computer networking vocab, do listening comprehension tasks and discuss the Starlink project.

health and wellness lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Do health and wellness apps really work?

Technology

This health and wellness lesson plan focuses on a discussion about health‐related issues and applications offered by employers in the workplace.

lesson plan on social media
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

TikTok and other social media: fun or threat?

Lifestyle Technology

Lesson plan on social media based on a video about TikTok. Students will discuss different social media and talk about concerns over the use of them.

technology lesson plan
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Flipped Lesson 45 min

How technology can enhance our brain

Technology

This technology lesson plan touches upon melding minds with machines, that is a brain-computer interface. It is based on a very interesting video which will definitely make your students eager to talk.

surveillance lesson plan
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Big Brother is watching you

Business Technology

This surveillance lesson plan looks into the topic of employee monitoring software and questions the use of this technology raises.

selfie lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Why do we take selfies?

Lifestyle Technology

Our selfie lesson plan focuses on word formation, listening, and language straight from Instagram. All that based on an authentic street interview with New Yorkers.

ESL flipped lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Deepfakes – Is seeing still believing?

Technology

This ESL flipped lesson plan deals with deepfakes, i.e. fake videos in which a person in a video is replaced with someone else using computer science.

advanced vocabulary
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Flipped Lesson 45 min

How drones and other technologies will change our world

Technology

In this C1/C2 lesson plan, your students will discover various applications of drones, learn some advanced vocabulary and talk about the world’s future!

cybercrime lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min

What do good hackers do? (cybercrime vocabulary)

Technology

Teach your students about cybercrimes and let them discover what a good hacker does with our Flipped Lesson Plan.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Top 10 Internet slang words you need to know

Technology

This lesson deals with Internet slang words (such as facepalm or FOMO) that are commonly used nowadays and your students should know them.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Filter bubbles (Internet vocabulary)

Technology

Teach your students some Internet language, introduce them to the concept of filter bubbles through our interactive video and engage them in a discussion!

conditionals review
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Using Agile for your family life (conditionals review)

Grammar Technology

Use this flipped lesson plan to do conditionals review, teach your students new vocab and practise using new language items orally.

sport-related language
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 45 min

Is e-sport a sport?

Lifestyle Technology

This worksheet goes deeper into the world of video games, makes students explore esports and study some sport-related language.

C2 lesson plan
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 75 min

How video games change the world

Technology

Use our C2 lesson plan to get your students talking about video games and teach them some new vocabulary as well as talk about the impact of video games.

cyberbullying lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

How to fight cyberbullying – lesson plan for teenagers

Global Issues Lifestyle Technology

This cyberbullying lesson plan is perfect both for your teenage ESL learners as well as parents. Learn, watch and discuss with ESL Brains lesson plans!

reading worksheet
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 45 min

Social media for environment protection

Global Issues Technology

This reading worksheet looks into the issue of the positive impact of social media on the environment and focuses on reading skills.

C1 lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

What geotagging does to nature (adjectives for describing places)

Global Issues Technology

This lesson plan deals with the effect of Instagram and Facebook on nature! It focuses on teaching adjectives synonyms used for describing places.

worksheet about artificial intelligence
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Will AI create millions of jobs?

Technology

This worksheet about artificial intelligence consists of tasks built around an article and jobs that it will create rather than destroy.

word formation
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min

Artificial Intelligence in your everyday life (word formation)

Technology

In 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.

expressing preference
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

The smartphone problem

Grammar Lifestyle Technology

This B2 (upper-intermediate) video lesson plan touches the issue of smartphone addiction and structures for expressing preference.

lesson on making predictions
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

The future of space exploration (lesson on making predictions)

Grammar Technology

Talk with your students about SpaceX and future of space travel using this ESL lesson plan on making predictions and expressing probability.

teaching IT vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 90 min

Scrum for IT – Agile Project Management (teaching IT vocabulary)

Technology

Teaching IT vocabulary is going to be fun for your ESL students when you focus on some key project-related vocabulary and comparing Scrum to Waterfall.

passive voice
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

How is bubble gum made (passive voice)

Grammar Technology

Teach your students how to use passive voice to talk about processes and discover how bubble gum is made.

English interactive video lesson
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

The ethical dilemma of driverless cars

Technology

In 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.

teaching english vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

What makes start-ups succeed?

Business Technology

This lesson plan focuses on start-ups as a business model. Students will learn useful jargon from the Silicon Valley and some collocations that will help them talk about start-ups and launching a new company.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Your online life is permanent

Technology

ESL video lesson plan for B1students that focuses on privacy online and how what we do on the internet leaves a permanent trace.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Will we lose our jobs to machines?

Technology

This 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!

C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Can technology solve our big problems?

Technology

Thanks to this worksheet, students will learn new advanced vocabulary and their synonyms, watch an intriguing video and have a chance to discuss whether technology has been developing in the right direction.

expressing likelihood
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Trends and fads: they come and go

Business Technology

Teach the difference between a trend and a fad and discuss how they affect business. Your students will also learn advanced phrases for expressing likelihood.

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