pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

What do you do?

Business

Thanks to this pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan, students will learn useful words and phrases for describing companies and jobs.

phrasal verbs for beginners
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

My perfect weekend. Phrasal verbs for beginners

Lifestyle

The lesson plan deals with phrasal verbs for beginners. Students will discover meanings of nine phrasal verbs and practise them in various speaking activities.

common English collocations
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Lessons in success from those you admire

Business Lifestyle

With this lesson plan, your students will talk about success, what they might learn from people they admire and their own experience. What’s more, they will learn a few common English collocations.

worksheet for advanced English students
C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Danger! Pyramid schemes

Business

This worksheet for advanced English students deals with pyramid schemes. Throughout the lesson, students will learn a lot of vocabulary and express their opinions on ‘get rich quick’ schemes.

negative prefixes
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Immediate response (not) required

Business

This lesson plan deals with synchronous and asynchronous communication. Apart from doing listening comprehension tasks, students will build adjectives with negative prefixes and learn some communication idioms.

lesson plan on saving the planet
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Plogging ‐ make yourself and the planet better

Global Issues Lifestyle

This lesson plan on saving the planet deals with plogging, i.e. the idea of picking up litter while jogging. The worksheet consists of a few vocab exercises and includes a lot of words used when talking about waste and littering.

business case study worksheet
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Decision time (business case study)

Business

Thanks to this business case study worksheet, students learn phrasal verbs to talk about companies, watch a video presenting a case study and discuss situations when companies face different problems.

lesson plan on the placebo effect
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min

Should we be faking it? The placebo effect

General

This 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.

C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

A house to feel at home in (describing houses)

Lifestyle

With this lesson plan, you’ll teach students some useful vocabulary for describing houses. They will also watch two videos and speak about their dream houses.

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.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Ditch the lawn!

Lifestyle

In this flipped lesson plan on gardening, students learn a few verbs, watch a video about turning lawns into gardens as well as discover the meanings of some expressions with the word ‘green’.

lesson plan on describing products
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Apple’s legendary keynotes

Business Lifestyle

The objective of this lesson plan is to teach students some adjectives for describing products and show them a video analysing Apple’s legendary keynotes.

adjectives for describing clothes
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min

England’s most eccentric dresser

Lifestyle

Thanks to this lesson plan, students will learn and practise adjectives for describing clothes and outfits as well as watch a TED Talk by Daniel Lismore.

lesson plan about Black Friday
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Black Friday is coming!

Lifestyle

This lesson plan about Black Friday includes some useful vocabulary and introduces words for showing differences such as although, despite or nevertheless.

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.

lesson plan on extinction
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 75 min

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.

lesson plan about megacities
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

The urban jungle keeps getting bigger

Global Issues

In this flipped lesson plan about megacities students will learn vocab related to cities, read urban development statistics and discuss city problems.

Business English worksheet for B1
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

There’s no business without challenges

Business

This Business English worksheet for B1 students gives them opportunity to speak about different businesses and their challenges, and analyse case studies.

social welfare lesson plan
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Universal basic income

Business Global Issues

This social welfare lesson plan deals with UBI, that is universal basic income. Students will learn a lot of related vocabulary as well as express their opinions on UBI and other social welfare issues.

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.

lesson plan about stereotypes
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 30 min

Let’s not promote stereotypes

Lifestyle

This lesson plan about stereotypes includes tasks to learn and practise vocabulary, sparks a discussion and ends with a video about racial preferences in dating.

lesson plan about recruitment
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

How unconscious bias affects your chances of getting a job

Business

This lesson plan about recruitment deals with unconscious bias among recruiters. The worksheet includes a lot of vocabulary as well as word formation tasks and includes a TED Talk by Gail Tolstoi-Miller.

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.

English challenge
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Give it a shot for 30 days! (+ 30-day English challenge)

Lifestyle

This lesson plan is based on a popular TED Talk by Matt Cutts about taking 30-day challenges. It consists of vocabulary and speaking activities, and includes a 30-day English challenge.

procrastination lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

This is why you procrastinate

Lifestyle

This procrastination lesson plan includes a lot of different exercises that let students have some fun, learn useful vocabulary and talk about their attitude towards procrastinating and ways to stop it.

lesson plan about architecture
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Copycat architecture

Lifestyle

This lesson plan about architecture deals with a phenomenon called copycat architecture. Students will learn some adjectives for describing places as well as watch an interesting video.

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.

describing sounds in English
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 45 min

The world of sounds around us

General

In this lesson plan, students will learn verbs for describing sounds in English and talk about irritating sounds using phrases for expressing annoyance.

cooking lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

What is your signature dish? (cooking lesson plan)

Lifestyle

The worksheet is prepared for B2 students and consists of various vocabulary activities that will help them create their own recipes in English.

working from home
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

How to master working from home

Business Grammar

Thanks to this ESL lesson plan your students will learn some useful vocabulary, study verb patterns and watch a video about tips for working from home.

logos lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min

Can you find hidden messages in these logos?

Lifestyle

This ESL logos lesson plan is based on a video about the hidden meanings of some logos and consists of different vocabulary and speaking activities that will get students talking about brand logos.

longevity lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

How to live 100 years and more

Lifestyle

This longevity lesson plan will make your students work at home on a video as well as on word formation, and discuss ideas about living 100+ years.

wish structures
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Is Kopi Luwak on your bucket list? (wish structures)

Grammar Lifestyle

In this lesson plan students will learn and practise ‘wish’ structures as well as watch a video about the most expensive coffee in the world, Kopi Luwak.

formal and informal email
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Writing effective emails – formal and informal language

Business

Teach your B1 students some formal and informal email language and give them some tips on writing effectively with our ESL lesson plan on writing emails.

lesson plan on films
C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 60 min

Let’s go to the movies! – ESL lesson plan on films

Lifestyle

This ESL lesson plan on films is based on a video review of Pain and Glory. Your student will learn new vocabulary and write a short film review themselves.

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.

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