Vocabulary
Expand your students’ word bank with fun, practical, and memorable exercises.
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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 -
Did AI Fail to Replace Developers? – ESL Lesson Plan
Explore the impact of AI on software development with this thought-provoking B2-C1 lesson based on an authentic video about why replacing developers with AI is going wrong. Students develop listening, vocabulary, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they analyse AI hype, tech industry realities, and the future of work.
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Maybelatership: Later or Never? – ESL Lesson Plan
Get your B2-C1 students talking about modern dating, uncertainty, and changing relationship expectations with this engaging video-based lesson on maybelaterships. Students develop listening, vocabulary, speaking, fluency, critical thinking, and cultural awareness as they explore why some people are choosing “maybe later” over a clear yes or no.
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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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Bolt’s Controversial Decision: The End of HR? – ESL Lesson Plan
Bring a real-world business controversy into your B1-B2 classroom with this engaging lesson on Bolt’s decision to eliminate its HR department. Students develop reading, vocabulary, speaking, collaboration, and critical thinking skills as they explore company culture, workforce restructuring, leadership choices, and the future role of HR in modern business.
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The Controversy of the New Odyssey – ESL Lesson Plan
Bring a modern film controversy into your B1-B2 classroom with this engaging lesson on Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. Students develop watching, listening, reading, vocabulary, word formation, speaking, and critical thinking skills as they analyse trailer clues, explore cultural debate, and discuss whether classic stories should be adapted for modern audiences.
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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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Disclosure Day: Spielberg on Aliens and Secrets – ESL Lesson Plan
Spark curiosity in your B2 classroom with this engaging film-themed lesson based on an authentic CBS Mornings interview with Steven Spielberg about Disclosure Day and the possibility of alien life. Students develop listening, vocabulary, speaking, research, and critical thinking skills as they discuss science fiction, secrecy, belief, and why stories about aliens continue to fascinate…
English Level: B2
