What Lesson Sets are
You would like to use ESL Brains lessons more often but struggle to decide on the best order to use them in. Sounds familiar? We have great news: the perfect solution is here in the form of Lesson Sets! Lesson Sets will save you loads of prep time and allow for a more structured teaching and learning experience, while allowing for flexibility (because we know that each student or group is different). The lessons in each set are connected by topic or function.
Each Lesson Set consists of standalone lesson plans which have already been published on the website. This means that you might have used some of the lesson plans in the past and that you can still use them as standalone lesson plans. The Lesson Sets, however, allow you to follow a sequence of lessons in the way that best suits your students’ needs and likes. In the sets, you will find some teaching tips on how to use the specific lesson sequence seamlessly.
The sets contain lessons available under different subscriptions (Free, Premium and Unlimited). However, to be able to use entire sets, it is necessary to be an Unlimited subscriber.
How Lesson Sets work
To browse Lesson Sets, use the search filter or click here.
Lesson Sets are easy to spot as they are marked with a grey frame and ribbon (see on the right). Check if the level is right and see how many lessons are in the set. A quick glance at the set description will tell you whether the set is useful for your students.
Once you open the set (see on the right), take a look at the short set overview to make sure the set objectives align with yours. Then, scroll down or use the button to see the lessons in the set.
You will see several lessons listed in a particular order (see below). Use the lessons in the suggested order. Sometimes, there is more than one lesson to choose from, like in the case of Lesson 2A and Lesson 2B below. In this case, check the brief lesson descriptions to choose the lesson which is better suited to your students’ needs. We suggest you use one of the lessons only to avoid being overly repetitive.
What to remember when using Lesson Sets
The lesson descriptions also contain some teaching tips (see on the right) that will make your students’ learning experience seamless. For instance, you might need to encourage students to use a specific grammar structure or vocabulary set in a particular exercise/slide, draw their attention to a structure used in a given task, or ask them to remember and use certain phrases throughout the lesson.
More Lesson Sets and more lesson plans
Lesson Sets are a game-changer! They mean less prep time, more structure and happier students. We are going to group more and more lessons into sets so browse them from time to time to see what’s new.
While sets are an awesome new website feature, we will keep publishing three new standalone lesson plans a week. Some of them will probably become parts of sets, too.
Ready? Choose a set, try it out and let us know how it went!
This is awesome! Thank you so much for this upgrade. It does save time!
Fantastic, thanks!
Great feature, thank you
Happy to hear that 🙂
Great! Thank you.
Thanks for the comment. Enjoy 🙂
Love this ! Thanks!!
Thank you 🙂
Love this! Thanks for helping us busy teachers!
Helping teachers is what we do 🙂
I’d say that’s the thing I really needed. You’re doing a great job. Looking forward to seeing more sets!
That’s fantastic. Thank you!
Exceptional, Thank you
Excellent for lesson planning. Thank you
Much appreciated!
So happy to hear that you are always working on how to improve and save us time! Definitely, my favourite site!!
Thanks, Gabriela 🙂
This is fantastic !!! Just today I was mixing and matching 3 of yoru lessons about tourism!
THANK YOU for the new feature – you are the best <3
We’re happy to be of help!
Such q gre
Ugh sorry I wanted to say that this is such a great idea – thank you!
PS Might also be a good idea to have a way of editing/deleting our own (over-hastily posted) comments?! Unless it’s just something I’m not finding!
That is fantastic to hear 🙂 And don’t worry about the comment!
That’s amazing!
We’re excited about it, too 🙂
This is wonderful! thank you! It saves so much time!
Awesome, thanks!
Great idea.
great!!!
Excellent idea .. thank you!
Great idea! Thank you! I look forward to using the sets.
Awesome lesson plans! Thank you for the creativity.
Great idea!
Awesome work guys! You’ve been a game changer for my biz.
Love to hear that!
amazing!!
Amazing feature. Time saver;) Thanks
Thank you!!
Guys, this is spooky! Just this weekend, I was discussing with my colleague that it would be great if you had a lesson set feature. Great mind-reading skills! 😀
Ha ha these are more of listening-to-fellow-teachers skills 🙂 We hope you enjoy the sets!
I’ve been hoping for a feature like this – thank you very much xx
Fantastic idea, thank you so much!
Great news, I’m looking forward to using these!
great idea, thanks
Excellent idea, thank you so much!!!
You’re a great help when it comes to lesson preparation. I loved the new idea. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much!
Great addition to an already great site ! Thanks.
Brilliant! thank you so much