💫 2026 is already here, but before you dive into a new year of English teaching, let us share what we accomplished in 2025. Here is a very brief summary of what happened at ESL Brains last year.
New lesson type: Vocabulary Lab
💡We came up with the idea of Vocabulary Lab worksheets when looking for ways to help your students learn and retain new vocabulary. The worksheets include: discussion, association, ordering, sorting and listening tasks 🤓 as well as projects, guessing games, quizzes and many more! After the lesson, students are more likely to remember the new lexical set 📖 because of the many ways they were engaged with it and used it in the classroom.
Haven’t tried them yet? Click here to check them out.
We published the first 17 Vocabulary Lab worksheets in 2025 and there’s much more to come in 2026! 💥
New additional resource: News For Classroom Use
We created this resource in response 👋🏼 to your requests for news-based materials. Whether your students are interested in current events, 👽 new trends or celebrity gossip, the News For Classroom Use post provides a short summary of a news item and several speaking tasks 🗯️ related to it. There’s no need for students to read any article – just share the summary and let them immediately jump into the topic. The resource is perfect to use as a warm-up, filler or wrap-up.
Browse all the news posts here. And remember we publish a new post 🫡 every week!
New website feature: Revision Tasks Generator
In 2025, we launched a tool that can save your prep time even further. Revision Tasks Generator 🪄 creates revision, extra homework and test tasks based on ESL Brains lessons with a click of the button. Depending on the target language introduced in the lesson, you can generate vocabulary, grammar and functional language 😄 revision tasks.
Have you tried it yet? Click here or use the purple button next to the lesson you want your students to revise.
We are currently designing more task types to choose from so stay tuned! 🤩
209 new lessons!
Most importantly, though, we did what we think we do best: create the top-notch English teaching materials! ☺️ Throughout 2025, we published 4 new lesson plans weekly. In total, we shared 209 lesson plans with you, including:
- 34 A1&A1-A2 lessons
- 65 A2-B1 lessons
- 59 B1-B2/C1 lessons
- 51 C1-C2&C2 lessons
Browse the recent lesson plans here.
🌻 We hope you know that you can keep counting on us in 2026! Thanks for being here!🌹
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