reported speech activities
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Reported speech activities

Grammar

With this worksheet, students practise reported speech in various situations. They report on audio recordings and film clips, use reporting verbs and work on reported questions. Students also play a fun quest game!

advanced ESL games
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Guessing games – B2-C1

General

This worksheet consists of five upper-intermediate and advanced ESL games. Each of the games can be used as a stand-alone task.

lesson including advanced phrasal verbs
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Advanced vocabulary activities

General

This is a set of ESL vocabulary activities rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the activities can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.

spelling games
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Is there an ‘a’ in ‘weak’? (spelling games)

General

In this lesson, students learn how to ask for spelling clarification and get a lot of practice through several spelling games. 

ESL vocabulary puzzles
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Can you figure it out? ESL vocabulary puzzles

Business

This is a set of ESL vocabulary puzzles rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the puzzles can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.

A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Who am I? – guessing game

Grammar

In this lesson students play an A2 guessing game which creates a lot of opportunities to practise forming yes or no questions in the present and in the past and have some fun while doing it.

comparative and superlative adjectives
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min

Better. Faster. Stronger (comparative and superlative adjectives)

Grammar Technology

In this lesson based on a video about technology then and now, students learn and practise comparative and superlative adjectives while discussing how their favourite gadgets have changed over time. 

reduplication in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 45 min

A super-duper language phenomenon (reduplication in English)

General

In this lesson about reduplication in English students discover the meaning of common reduplicatives and practise them in everyday conversations.

verb formation
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Do you need all this stuff? (verb formation)

Global Issues Lifestyle

In this lesson based on a video about minimalism students get an opportunity to practise verb formation (exploring prefixes and suffixes) and reflect on their lifestyles.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Will they find out I’m a fraud? Imposter syndrome

Lifestyle

Learn about the imposter syndrome, discover what Michelle Obama has to do with it and discuss how to cope with it.

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.

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.

expressing opinions in English
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 30 min

Expressing opinions in English – phrases and argument game

General

Teach your students words and phrases for expressing opinions in English and practise them in the argument battle challenge!

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