Grammar
Make grammar click with clear explanations and ready-to-teach practice activities.
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How Well Do You Know Twilight? – ESL Lesson Plan
Bring the world of Twilight into your B1 classroom with this fun, fan-focused lesson built around speaking, quizzes, debate, and creative writing. Students develop grammar, speaking, writing, and critical thinking skills as they test their knowledge of the story, debate Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, and practise the third conditional by imagining an alternative ending.
English Level: B1 -
Is Everyone a Therapist Now? – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B1 students talking about therapy speak, mental health language, and everyday communication with this engaging reading-based lesson. Students develop reading, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, media literacy, and critical thinking skills as they explore terms like gaslighting and boundaries, practise may and might, and discuss when psychological language helps – and when it can do…
English Level: B1 -
Tipping Culture: Has It Gone Too Far? – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B1-B2 students talking about tipping, frustration, and modern consumer culture with this engaging lesson based on an authentic Wall Street Journal video. Students develop listening, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they explore the history of tipping, tip screens, price partitioning, and whether tipping culture has gone too far.
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Rent or Own? How Subscriptions Are Draining Your Wallet – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B2 students thinking critically about the subscription economy with this engaging video-based lesson on hidden costs, consumer habits, and modern spending choices. Students develop listening, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, collaboration, and critical thinking skills as they discuss streaming services, recurring fees, and the difference between renting and owning.
English Level: B2 -
Too Young for Social Media? Exploring the UK’s Social Media Ban – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B1-B2 students discussing online safety, personal freedom, and government control with this engaging news-based lesson on the UK’s proposed social media ban for under-16s. Students develop listening, vocabulary, passive voice, speaking, discussion, and critical thinking skills as they analyse different perspectives and debate whether young people should be kept off major platforms.
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Heat Wave Survival: Tips from Science – ESL Lesson Plan
Help your B1-B2 students explore the science of heat waves with this engaging video-based lesson on extreme heat, health, and survival. Students develop listening, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they learn how heat affects the body, evaluate practical safety strategies, and practise using comparative structures to describe cause and effect.
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The Coolcation: A New Way to Travel – ESL Lesson Plan
Introduce your A2 students to the travel trend of coolcations with this engaging reading-based lesson on summer holidays, climate, and changing travel preferences. Students develop reading, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, critical thinking, and creative writing skills as they compare beach holidays with cooler escapes and plan their own 4-day coolcation itinerary.
English Level: A2 -
Last Chance Tourism: Travel or Trouble? – ESL Lesson Plan
Take your B1-B2 students into the debate around last chance tourism with this engaging lesson based on an authentic CBS Mornings report from Iceland. Students develop listening, vocabulary, grammar, speaking, writing, and critical thinking skills as they explore disappearing destinations, climate change, travel choices, and the environmental paradox of visiting places before they are gone.
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Understanding El Niño: A Global Weather Phenomenon – ESL Lesson Plan
Take your B1-B2 students into the science and real-world impact of El Niño with this engaging lesson based on an authentic BBC News video. Students develop listening, vocabulary, passive voice, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they explore how global weather patterns affect floods, droughts, food supplies, and communities around the world.
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Are You as Good as You Think? The Dunning-Kruger Effect – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B1-B2 students talking about confidence, competence, and self-awareness with this engaging psychology lesson inspired by a TED-Ed video on the Dunning-Kruger effect. Students develop listening, vocabulary, grammar, critical thinking, speaking, and writing skills as they explore why people overestimate their abilities and how to become more accurate self-assessors.
