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eShopping

This lesson is about buying and selling items on online auction sites, such as eBay and eBid. It provides students with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the vocabulary and typical format of item listings on such sites. They will closely read and then write their own item listings, using adjectives and persuasive language.

Memories

This lesson focuses on the theme of memory, and there is work on collocation and idioms. The lesson takes an integrated approach to allow for practice in all four skills.

a surprised man

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!  

At the department store (2)

This lesson develops the skills needed for shopping in a department store. It expands the students’ vocabulary of items that can be bought in a department store and enables them to practise a simple conversation about how to ask where things are.

Know your consumer rights

This lesson provides students with facts about their consumer rights, to make them better informed when they are buying items in shops or online. As well as learning common collocations related to consumer rights, they will practise their listening skills and take part in a role-play to return a faulty item.

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).

 

My journey to work

This lesson is about Anne’s journey to work. It provides learners with listening and speaking practice of transport vocabulary and talking about their journeys to work or college/school.

Learning about Wales

What do your students know about Wales? Try this lesson and help them learn more about an interesting part of the UK.

Getting to know you

Even simple social tasks like inviting a person out to a restaurant can cause embarrassment and stress. This lesson includes discussions of why such situations are difficult, as well as plenty of practice.

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