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Cooking a fish dish

TV chef Ainsley Harriot shows us how to make a delicious fish dish.

Cooking Chinese vegetables

Cooks often use a wok to cook Chinese food, especially stir-fry. TV chef Ken Hom shows us a tasty way to make dish of Chinese vegetables in a wok.

A student's life: modal verbs

In this lesson, Jonny talks about what he has to do as a medical student. The language focus is modal verbs of obligation and permission.

Customer problems

Do the people who work in the places that you clean ask you to do things?

The teacher’s phone call

This resource, 'Someone on the phone: the teacher’s phone call',  aims to give ESOL learners the confidence and the language to deal with situations they may encounter in their homes. In this film, Sunita speaks to her son's primary school teacher on the phone.

The teacher's phone call

Teachers often need to talk to the parents of children who are in their class about how the child is getting on.

The teacher’s visit

Watch the film called 'The teacher's visit' and complete the activities so you can feel confident if you have to speak to a teacher about a child s

greeting someone by shaking hands

Making a good first impression

This lesson is based around employability and deals with different factors which contribute to creating a good first impression, such as dress, punctuality and register of speech.  The language focus is the use of should and shouldn’t to give advice, and learners practise giving advice on how to create a good first impression. 

Vision off - YouTube technique

This YouTube activity really gets your students thinking creatively. A short film is played for the students, but they can’t see the scene, they can only hear it. 

Things that get on your nerves: wish

Are you an easy-going person? Do many things get on your nerves? Watch the video of Anne talking about things that get on her nerves and practise using phrases like 'I wish you would ...' to show you are irritated.

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