This lesson is about housing in the UK and is based on Housing materials from both the NIACE Citizenship materials for ESOL and the ESOL Nexus learner website. The lesson provides an overview of the types of accommodation available in the UK and develops the learner's ability to ask and answer questions, listen for detail and fill in a housing form.
A dictation activity where learners control the teacher's dictation.
Students read reviews of popular sitcoms, then watch a clip of a sitcom and create their own reviews.
This resource is taken from the Be safe UK series of resources which aims to give learners the confidence needed to be able to call for help in the event of an emergency.
This lesson, about writing messages to friends on social networks, develops students’ ability to write personal messages and features example threads with comments, which students have the opportunity to contribute to. They can also post new messages, and comment on the postings written by other students.
When students write a story, they often concentrate too much on the plot at the expense of grammar. This activity helps students with both.
This idea can help students with their writing of stories. It gives all them some essential, and some superfluous, vocabulary.
Are you for or against electronic books? In this lesson, students read about the advantages and disadvantages of electronic books. They look at language for essay writing and the informal language of blog comments.