Hello and welcome to 2025! We trust that in 2024, you found moments of joy, peace, and contentment, as well as having some truly special lessons with your students.
We know that life is hectic (especially for teachers!) and we hope that you’ve been able to leave behind some worries and stresses from the year just past. Allow yourself to enter 2025 with a positive mindset and a renewed energy, because the best is always yet to come… 🤩
As for us, it’s possible that 2024 was our busiest year yet! We accomplished a lot this year at ESL Brains and we’re pretty proud of ourselves. Have a look at all we got done in 2024. (Bonus points if you’ve been keeping up with our progress the whole year round! 👑)
A1 Lesson Plans 🐣
That’s right, we introduced A1 lesson plans! Arguably our biggest achievement of the year, and certainly the most eagerly anticipated, our lesson plans for elementary learners have been a resounding success 🏆. To date, we’ve published 20 A1 lesson plans and we’ll continue to add more in 2025. As a result of adding this new level, we’re now publishing 4 lessons a week. We’re so grateful to all of our users for their feedback and support on those lesson plans, and we’ll continue to deliver them to a high standard.
A2-C2 Lesson Plans 📑
In 2024, we published an impressive 144 A2-C2 lesson plans! That includes 85 Standard Lessons, 33 Speaking Classes, 15 Critical Reading Club worksheets, and 11 Flipped Classroom worksheets. We learned so much both in the creation and feedback stages of these lessons, and we’re proud of each one we published.
How many did you use? Do any of 2024’s lessons stand out to you? 💎
Lesson Sets 🗃️ and Lesson Flows 🌊
We introduced two new features: Lesson Sets and Lesson Flows!
If you don’t already know about them, Lesson Sets are sequences of 2-3 ESL Brains lessons connected 🔗 by topic or function. They’re designed to save you prep time, while also allowing flexibility depending on students’ needs. Read more about them here, or browse our available ones here. We published a whopping 58 Sets in 2024, and we’re proud to report that they’ve been a great success 🚀 with our users.
Lesson Flows, on the other hand, contain around 14-15 lessons per sequence, with additional ‘follow up’ lesson suggestions. 💡 They help teachers navigate learning in a more structured way, and we’re delighted to hear that many teachers have actually started using Flows in place of traditional curricula! 🔄 Read more about Flows and try them out here. We currently have 5 Flows (A1, A2, B2, and C1 General and A2/B1 Business).
Active On Socials 🤳
As always, we kept the good vibes going on Instagram, publishing 70 unique posts throughout the year. Thanks to all our followers 🤩 for your continued support and engagement. If you’re not already keeping up with us there, join the community of 9K teachers who are, by following @esl_brains 📱.
And for all you professionals, we also hopped on LinkedIn this year! We’ve started posting about new lessons, teaching tips, and sharing insights from our material creation process. Since September, we’ve published 33 unique posts. 📢 Feel free to check us out here and give us a follow!
Website Changes 💻
As usual, we continually brainstormed ways to make life easier for teachers. This year, we tackled our website and improved its functionality. We now have a 🌐 new homepage layout for both existing and new users, complete with new features. We’ve also added some ToolTips to explain certain aspects of the website, updated the Pricing page, and we started working on some extra features and changes to make navigation more 🖥️ seamless.
Well, those are our 2024 highlights, but they really only scratch the surface of what we’ve achieved this year. We’re so excited to see what 2025 brings. We know, for sure, that the year will see many more lessons published on all kinds of topics, and that we will continue to cater to teachers’ needs and listen to your feedback. We’re so grateful for all your support throughout the year and we hope that we can count on you for another 365 days of ESL Brains. Thank you! ❤️
Thank you for all the progressive improvements and all the hard work. This is really a most recommendable site!
Thank you, Sofie! We really appreciate that 😀
This site has become a lifesaver for me…I don’t even bother with other sites any more when looking for lesson plans. I’m especially excited about more A1 plans. Also I had no idea about the “Lesson Flows”, I’m going to check those out. Thank you very much for everything.
What a lovely comment, you’ve made our day! Thanks so much for the feedback and we hope you enjoy the Lesson Flows!
I always love your content! My students love the material. Could I suggest more C1- 2 business content, please?
Thanks for your feedback, so glad to hear that! We’ll take your suggestion on board, thanks!