advanced lesson on phrasal verbs
C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 60 min

Mastering phrasal verbs

Business General

Students practise advanced phrasal verbs with this lesson! They engage in interesting discussions about workplace interactions, challenges, and negotiations. They also talk about various situations and watch a short comedic video.

advanced lesson on event management
C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 60 min

Event management

Business General

Talk about event management and share experiences with this lesson! Students practise event management phrases, watch a video about making events memorable and discuss how they would plan and manage a successful event.

practise phrasal verbs
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Calm down and carry on! (phrasal verbs)

General

With this worksheet, students review and practise phrasal verbs. They create sentences, play “two truths and a lie” and complete phrasal verbs. They also develop endings to stories, create dialogues and complete statements to talk about their opinions and preferences.

common verbs
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Common verbs exercises

General

The worksheet is a series of stand-alone common verbs exercises that can be used as a revision, warm-up or time filler. There are five exercises that deal with different common verbs, collocations, phrasal verbs, opposite verbs and phrases with ‘get’.

phrasal verb activities
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Phrasal verbs activities

General

The worksheet is a series of stand-alone phrasal verb activities that can be used as a revision, warm-up or time filler. There are four types of activities, each with two parts and different phrasal verbs. 

advanced multiword verbs
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min

Living a digital nomad lifestyle

Business Lifestyle

In this lesson students watch a video about being a digital nomad and learn and practise advanced multiword verbs.

phrasal verbs with put
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Put a ring on it

General

In this worksheet, students learn idioms and phrasal verbs with put. They also practise working out the meaning from context, and have an opportunity to use the new language in speaking activities. 

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.

phrasal verbs with away
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Chasing the birds away (phrasal verbs with away)

General

In this lesson students learn and practise phrasal verbs with away, watch a video about a dog working at an airport and discuss the jobs dogs do.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min

How tiny tasks become monsters

Business Lifestyle

In this lesson students learn and put into practice dependent prepositions (in phrasal verbs and other expressions) while discussing reasons and ways of dealing with the common problem of procrastination.

listening for gist and details
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

The person who knows how to cheer your day up

Lifestyle

In this lesson students get an opportunity to learn phrasal verbs and practise their listening skills (listening for gist and details) by watching a motivational video about how to cope with a bad day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Phrasal verbs with over

General

With this worksheet, your students will learn 10 phrasal verbs with ‘over’ and discover what kind of meanings ‘over’ connotates.

phrasal verbs with out
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 75 min

Do you feel FOMO? – phrasal verbs with out

Lifestyle

In this lesson plan, you will talk with your students about FOMO, and its opposite – JOMO, while teaching them various phrasal verbs with ‘out’.

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