This lesson is a good one to use when you've just finished talking about travel and countries. It was planned and used with a multi-national class at an upper-intermediate level. It's possible to grade it for lower levels, but you will probably need to change the video for the listening. This lesson has plenty of opportunity to speak, a listening based on a travel video for Stockholm, Sweden, and some useful vocabulary when talking about different types of town, city, or vill

Every December around Christmas I take a holiday, so I'm never in the classroom. This means I miss all the Christmas lessons and activities that teachers usually do. It's been a few years since I was last in the classroom doing a Christmas lesson and I thought I wouldn't let the lesson plan I used to use each year gather dust until I get to use it again. This will be the last lesson plan I write this year, and I think it's fitting to end on. I hope you and your students enjoy

This lesson is the kind of lesson you can use at the end of the academic year, term, course, or even just to give your students a break from the coursebook. It isn't really a lesson as such, it's more like a series of activities that flow nicely and gets the students competing against each other and other groups. But, more importantly, it gets them using that English that may have slipped to the back of their mind. You can use it with any level or age. I say age, but I have n

Here is a lesson on pictures. It always goes down well. It gets the students sharing and talking about pictures they have taken and memories they have connected to the pictures. It also includes a video listening about selfies and some vocabulary connected to pictures and photography. It finishes off nicely with students becoming models and photographers. The lesson idea actually came about when I found a left over copy of a class exercise that someone had done. It was a pict

This topic is always interesting and really gets students speaking. It's always interesting to hear how other nations see others. I created this lesson plan a couple of summers ago when I had a very diverse group of students studying in England from all the way from Japan to Argentina. Of course, you first need to make sure your students won't get offended by this topic and can handle it. Also you'll need access to some technology to make life easier as there is a video invo

As many of you who worked at language schools during the summer with teenagers, you might have done a few project lessons. The type of lessons where students work together to produce some kind of work that can then be presented and then displayed on the wall for all the students to admire. At my school, Monday was project lesson day, and one Monday we were given the topic of fashion – a topic I quite enjoy. I had a mixture of teens from Italy, France, Russia, and Spain. With