Present Simple activities
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 60 min

Present Simple activities

Grammar

Practise the Present Simple with this worksheet! Students review the use of the verb ‘to be’, describe pictures and listen to recordings of people talking about themselves. They also work with positive and negative statements and questions.

questions without auxiliaries
B1 / Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 60 min

What happened? (questions without auxiliaries)

Grammar

Explore questions without auxiliaries with this lesson! Students discuss scenarios that involve questions, watch film scenes and work on useful phrases to answer questions. They also role-play situations where they ask and answer questions!

A1 / Elementary
3 lessons

I am, you are… (verb ‘to be’)

General Grammar

Students learn to use of the verb ‘to be’ in Present Simple. They also talk about people in their life, describe possessions and discuss countries, nationalities and languages.

questions with the verb ‘be’
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 60 min

Are you American? (‘to be’ questions)

General Grammar

Students explore nationalities and countries in this lesson! They watch two great videos on the topic and learn to form questions with the verb ‘be’ to talk about where people are from. They do lots of different exercises, like matching, word order, dialogues, and more.

A1 / Elementary
4 lessons

What do you do every day? (all about Present Simple)

General Grammar

The lessons in the set allow students to learn the meaning, form and use of Present Simple. Students also learn morning routine vocabulary, adverbs of frequency and telling the time.

practise present simple questions
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 60 min

What time do you…? (Present Simple questions)

Grammar Lifestyle

Students talk about their habits and schedules! They learn how to talk about time, explore time expressions, and practise Present Simple questions. They also practise listening skills by watching videos of people talking about their bedtimes.

question tags lesson
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Do you enjoy quiz shows? (question tags)

General Grammar

Teach your students how to express uncertainty about facts. They will practise using question tags and apply general knowledge to answer quiz questions!

listening skills
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

What makes a good listener?

General

In this lesson students watch a video, talk about being a good communicator and practise their listening skills. 

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.

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!

first Business English lesson
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Me, my work and I – first Business English lesson plan

Business General

What’s your idea for your first lesson with your adult students? Check out what we do on our first Business English lesson with new students.

asking questions
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Questions no one knows the answers to

General Grammar

This TED Talk lesson plan on asking questions includes exercises on both indirect and direct questions and makes students use them a lot in speaking.

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