Unexpected situations
This lesson plan is all about the language learners need in the outside world when things do not go exactly according to plan!
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Storylines
A speaking and listening activity to help learners practise narrative tenses for storytelling. Aimed at lower level learners and above.
Chain story telling
Students use photos of objects, animals or people to re-tell a memorable event from their lives.
Anna's wet day out
Help students to plan and write a narrative in five easy stages
Presenting a personal history
This lesson focuses on the past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses in the context of biographies and culminates in students giving a short presentation about a famous person.
Dogme in ESOL
This is a speaking and listening practice lesson about any topic you can think of. It provides students with the opportunity to tell you what they know about a topic and lets them work with this language through a variety of tasks (storytelling, debating and dictogloss activities).
Cycling and carbon emissions
Students think about and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cycling. They then consider what else they could do personally to reduce their carbon emissions.
Talking about the future
In this simple lesson students will have a chance to speak freely about different aspects of their future life, while the teacher guides them (with the students' help) to the best available grammar forms in order to do so.
From questions to story writing
When students write a story, they often concentrate too much on the plot at the expense of grammar. This activity helps students with both.
Online chatting
This activity simulates online written chat, a popular communication process which has features common to both speaking and writing.