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

decision making lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to make faster decisions

Business

This decision-making lesson plan is based on the concept of FOBO – fear of a better option. In this lesson, your students will learn new vocabulary, discover some decision-making strategies and talk about their own experiences.

political cartoon lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Political cartoons and freedom of speech

Global Issues Grammar

Have some fun and develop your students’ critical thinking skills with our new political cartoon lesson plan based on the work of Patrick Chappatte!

generational stereotypes
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Generational stereotypes at work

Business

Video-based ESL lesson plan which focuses on stereotypical generations at work. It’s perfect for professionals, especially involved in HR/Employer Branding

conditionals review
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min
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Using Agile for your family life (conditionals review)

Grammar Technology

Use this flipped lesson plan to do conditionals review, teach your students new vocab and practise using new language items orally.

job satisfaction
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 30 min
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Why do we work?

Business

This flipped classroom worksheet is based on a TED Talk by Barry Schwartz who tries to answer the question why we work and what makes us satisfied at work.

Business English collocations
C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to use technology to manage people better

Business

Teach your students Business English collocations, get your students engaged into a discussion on management and practise their listening skills.

ESL lesson
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why you should know how much your co-workers get paid

Business

ESL lesson plan about getting paid. Teach students new vocabulary, test their grammar knowledge and engage in an interesting debate.

talking about a career break
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to relaunch your career after a break

Business

The lesson plan focuses on talking about career break and is based on a TED Talk which explains reasons for career breaks and how to come back to work after them.

teaching english vocabulary
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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What makes start-ups succeed?

Business Technology

This lesson plan focuses on start-ups as a business model. Students will learn useful jargon from the Silicon Valley and some collocations that will help them talk about start-ups and launching a new company.

listening comprehension
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min
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Got a meeting? Take a walk

Business

With our lesson plan, your students will practise listening comprehension, learn new informal phrases and watch an interesting TED talk.

TED Talk lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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For these women, reading is a daring act

Global Issues Grammar

The TED Talk that the worksheet is based on touches upon the problem of women’s illiteracy and education. It is a great starting point for the discussion on gender inequality in general and that’s what the lesson is about.

ESL lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to make hard choices

Business

This ESL lesson plan focuses on making difficult decisions and helps students to understand how to approach the decision-making process.

career collocations
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why you will fail to have a great career

Business

This lesson plan focuses on pursuing career and passions. Students will learn collocations with the word career, discuss how to have a successful work life and watch an amusing speech.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Who is a better job candidate: a Silver Spoon or a Scrapper?

Business

ESL worksheet based on a TED talk and designed for HR specialists to give them a chance to discuss the recruitment process and learn new language.

women leaders
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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Why we have too few women leaders

Business

This worksheet based on Sheryl Sandberg’s talk “Why we have too few women leaders” focuses on gender equality and the perspective of Facebook’s COO on the problem of not enough women holding senior management positions.

time phrases
B2 / Upper Intermediate | C1 / Advanced
Standard Lesson 60 min
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How to gain control of your free time

Business

Have you ever wondered how successful people manage their time? Discover this with your advanced adult learners, teach them some time phrases and talk about time management.

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