Topic: Role Play
Standard Lesson 90 min

Question Time – Let’s have a panel show!
GeneralIn 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.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Have you tried turning it off and on again?
GeneralIn this lesson plan, ESL students will do a lot of different activities and learn words and expressions for talking about problems and solutions.
Standard Lesson 45 min

Good news or bad news, which do you want first?
Business GeneralThis lesson plan deals with functional language for giving good and bad news in English. Students will learn useful expressions and do a role-play.
Standard Lesson 45 min

At a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms
GeneralThis 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.
Standard Lesson 30 min

Have you done it yet? Present Perfect: already, just, yet
Business GeneralThis 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.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Love is not always a bed of roses
GeneralThis lesson plan includes tasks built around love and relationship vocabulary, but mainly words and expressions we use when things go wrong in a relationship.
Standard Lesson 75 min

Practise reported speech with Vogue interviews
GeneralUse Vogue 73 Qs interviews to teach your students reported speech with our original lesson plan and discover new facts about their favourite celebrities!
Standard Lesson 60 min

Telephone phobia (Telephone English phrases)
BusinessTeach your students how to use English over the phone using our Telephone English phrases and practical role plays as well as telephone etiquette tips.
Standard Lesson 60 min

How to ask for a raise? (negotiation phrases)
BusinessBusiness English lesson plan that focuses on teaching negotiation phrases and lets you have 1-to-1 negotiation role plays in your classroom!
Standard Lesson 45 min

Complaining and responding to complaints
Business GeneralTeach your students some informal and formal expressions for complaining and practise them in a role-play activity with a twist.
Standard Lesson 60 min

Questions no one knows the answers to
Business GeneralThis 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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