new words coined
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

A glossary of coronaspeak

General

This 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.

lesson plan on music
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Can you imagine the world without music?

Lifestyle

Thanks to this lesson plan on music, students learn adjectives for describing music and watch a video in which musicians talk about emotions music evokes.

panel show
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 90 min

Question Time – Let’s have a panel show!

General

In 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.

talking about problems and solutions
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

General

In this lesson plan, ESL students will do a lot of different activities and learn words and expressions for talking about problems and solutions.

lesson plan on hygge
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Embrace the Danish way of living

Lifestyle

In this lesson plan on hygge, students do a word formation task built around the words such as ambience, cosiness or indulgence, and talk about the concept of hygge.

Christmas lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

General

Thanks to this Christmas lesson plan, students discuss Christmas preparations, watch some TV commercials and write their own Christmas wishes.

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.

foreign food names
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Easier to eat than pronounce

General

The 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.

lesson plan on memory
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

The limits of human memory

General

This 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.

mixed conditionals
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Mixed conditionals for Business English

Business Grammar

The lesson plan introduces the rules of mixed conditionals and makes Business English learners practise them through various activities.

used to
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Life used to be different

Grammar Lifestyle

Use our B1 lesson plan to teach your students how to use the structure of ‘used to’ and compare the school life now and then.

travel and transport idioms
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

At a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms

General

This 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.

C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Would you walk your dog around the world?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan is based on a video presenting a man sharing experiences from his unusual journey and, focuses on travel phrasal verbs.

difference between say tell speak and talk
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Just say it! Differences between say, tell, speak and talk

General

This lesson plan deals with the difference between say, tell, speak and talk. Students get exercises that help them understand uses of these verbs.

lesson plan about packaging
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

How to combat plastic packaging

Global Issues

Use our lesson plan about packaging to teach your students some packaging types and materials, revise vocabulary related to recycling as well as watch an interesting video presenting three companies and their approach to plastic packaging.

already just yet
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Have you done it yet? Present Perfect: already, just, yet

Grammar

This lesson plan deals with Present Perfect and already, just, yet. We want to show students how to use these words in specific situations. Apart from practical tasks, students will also role-play two scenarios.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Art or prank?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan about Banksy and Maurizio Cattelan deals with controversial art. Students watch 2 videos, discuss some artwork and decide: art or prank!

questions in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

AMA: Ask Me Anything

General

This lesson plan is our attempt to make students ask more questions in English during the class. Students step into their teacher’s shoes and lead the class!

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

Narrative tenses – using Past Simple/Continuous/Perfect for storytelling

Grammar

This lesson plan focuses on narrative tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect. It can serve as a great revision of these three tenses.

lesson plan on saving money
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Are you a saver or a spender?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan on saving money is prepared for B1 students. Thanks to it, they will learn a lot of vocabulary connected with money, have a lot of opportunities to speak (including a quiz) and do tasks in an interactive video.

telling stories in English
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Be a better storyteller

Grammar

This lesson plan is all about telling stories in English and it might be a great supplement to lesson plans on narrative tenses.

love and relationship vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Love is not always a bed of roses

General

This lesson plan includes tasks built around love and relationship vocabulary, but mainly words and expressions we use when things go wrong in a relationship.

online dating lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min

Finding the perfect match (online dating lesson plan)

Lifestyle

Thanks to this online dating lesson plan, you will introduce your students to the world of dating apps as well as teach them love and relationship vocab.

communication lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Communication is not that easy!

Business

This communication lesson plan is based on a short video presenting how miscommunication happens and how we can avoid it. The worksheet includes vocabulary tasks, listening comprehension and speaking practice.

inclusive language
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Inclusive language

Business Global Issues

We developed this worksheet to teach some inclusive language. In this one-page handout, students will learn what inclusive language is and discover some examples of both inclusive and exclusive language.

functional language for online meetings
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Functional language for online meetings

Business

Teach your students some basic functional language for online meetings that they need to know. Later practise that in real-life situations and have some fun watching a comedy sketch.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

How animals help humans

General

Practise new vocabulary. Work on your students’ listening skills and let them talk about how animals can help heal veterans and let them get back to society.

horse idioms
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Hold your horses! – Horse idioms

General

The worksheet is built around the word ‘horse’. It includes eight horse idioms which are introduced through various tasks. Your students will discover the meanings of new idioms, see in what context they can be used and practise them in writing. 

phrases with get
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Now I get it! – phrases with get

General

A lesson plan which is built around phrases with the verb ‘get’. It is prepared for stronger students (B2) and consists of various tasks.

lesson plan on binge watching
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Let’s binge watch it together!

Lifestyle

In this lesson plan students learn advanced TV vocabulary, discuss statistics connected with binge watching and talk about their TV series watching habits.

B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 30 min

Natural disasters – vocabulary extension

General

This worksheet focuses on vocabulary. Apart from natural disasters, students will also learn words and phrases commonly used in news headlines.

phrases with take
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Take a quiz (and other phrases with take)

General

Teach your students new expressions and phrasal verbs with take, and challenge them to take a quiz checking their knowledge about different countries.

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.

Commonly confused words in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Commonly confused words in English

General

The worksheet deals with commonly confused words in English and includes activities in which students study 16 pairs of confusing verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

productivity lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

How to be more productive at work

Business

This productivity lesson plan is based on two short videos in which Charles Duhigg presents his ideas for boosting work productivity.

idioms with fruit and veggies
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Idioms with fruit and veggies

General

With this 2-page worksheet, your students will discover 14 common idioms with fruit and veggies and learn in what contexts they can be used.

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