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Learn to talk about sport, winning and record-breaking achievements with this sports English lesson plan for A2-B1 learners, built around a short news video about Kimi Antonelli becoming the youngest Formula 1 world champion in 2026 and a practical focus on comparative and superlative adjectives.
Learn the everyday British slang and spoken grammar that native speakers really use with this British slang English lesson plan for B2-C1 learners, built around a video lesson on 24 common expressions such as knackered, gutted and a brew.
Master the phrasal verbs, fixed expressions and dependent prepositions tested in C1 Advanced (CAE) Reading and Use of English Part 1 with this CAE Use of English lesson plan, built around five exam-style multiple-choice cloze texts on digital habits, remote work, the environment, failure and first impressions.
Master the business English idioms people really use at work with this B2 English lesson plan on workplace idioms, built around a team chat and a project meeting in which a small app-development team uses twelve everyday office idioms, so that students understand real meetings and sound natural instead of clichéd.
Master the vocabulary of feelings and personality with this B1 English lesson plan on describing emotions and people, built around four short team-chat messages from colleagues after a difficult week, so that students can answer “How are you?” with more than “fine, thanks”.
Learn the difference between routines and temporary situations with this Present Simple vs Present Continuous lesson plan, built around two calendars of the same project manager: a normal working week and a chaotic week when a colleague is off sick and the company is running a conference.
Discover what the research really says about doomscrolling and attention spans with this flipped-classroom English lesson plan on brain rot and short-form video, built around a 9:39 BBC Global interview in which Katty Kay asks science journalist Joss Fong whether swiping through social media feeds is damaging our ability to focus.
Learn to talk about life experiences, moving abroad and homesickness with this A2 present perfect English lesson plan built around the Easy English street-interview video Have you ever lived abroad?, recorded with real people in Toronto.
Explore the global wave of youth activism with this B2-C1 current affairs English lesson plan built around the BBC World Service video Gen Z protests: What unites them?, teaching protest vocabulary and the passive voice journalists use to report the news.
Master causative have and get something done with this B1-B2 Business English lesson plan on causative structures and professional vocabulary, built around a corporate update about a company that has its servers inspected, its accounts audited and its marketing collateral printed by outside specialists.
Master the third conditional and I wish I’d… with this B1+-B2 English lesson plan on regrets and lessons learned, built around four “Things I wish I’d known before…” social media posts about a first job, moving out, going freelance and turning 30.
Master narrative tenses with this storytelling English lesson plan built around four viral YouTube storytime Shorts, so students learn to tell a one-minute “The time I…” story the way social media creators do: hook, scene, events and punchline.
Master the first conditional for promises, threats, warnings, offers and advice with this grammar-through-context English lesson plan built around six real-life messages from a parent, a manager, a friend, an advert, a neighbour and a colleague.
Learn to describe symptoms, ask a pharmacist for advice and read the instructions on a medicine box with this A2 English lesson plan at the pharmacy, built around a model dialogue, two medicine labels and a pharmacist role-play.
Master the language of facts, claims and predictions with this media literacy English lesson plan built around the ABC News report on a car company’s “flying” sports car, so that students can report what companies say without endorsing it, hedge their own predictions and evaluate new technology with precise vocabulary.
Master everyday negotiation language for work with this task-based Business English lesson plan, in which students negotiate real deadlines, budgets and project scope through role-plays and a hidden-priorities information-gap game.
Master concise business English writing with this C1-C2 precision English lesson plan in which students turn 20 real work and life messages into one clear line the reader can act on from a phone notification, without losing facts, tone or the request, and then add exactly one nuance.
Master the second conditional and everyday food and TV vocabulary with this second conditional English lesson plan built around the comedy video If Regular People were Cooking Show Judges, in which three unfussy judges pour ketchup on a gourmet steak and crown frozen fish and Cool Whip the winning menu.
Discover the history of Halloween traditions with this A2-B1 Halloween English lesson plan built around the BBC Newsround video Trick or Treat? A Brief History of Halloween Traditions, where learners trace October 31st from the Celtic festival of Samhain to modern trick-or-treating and practise expressing preferences with I’d rather.
Master the vocabulary of protests, civil disorder and the cost of living with this B2-C1 English lesson plan on protests and the cost of living in Europe, built around a BBC News video report on the violent protests across France and a homework reading from The Independent on the European cities facing cost-of-living protests from Paris to Milan.
Master the language of saying no to your manager with this C1 reading and speaking English lesson plan on burnout at work, built around the story of Jonas, a 24-year-old analyst who never said no, six warning signs of burnout, and a five-move language bank for turning a request into a trade-off with I’m at capacity and I can take that on if we deprioritise X.
Master the language of ordering lunch with this A2 functional English lesson plan built around a café menu and two short dialogues: students learn to order politely with Can I have… / Could I get…, ask what is in a dish with Is there any… in it?, make special requests such as without onion and to go, and say there is a mistake with an order.
Learn to pass on messages from meetings, phone calls and team chats with this task-based reported speech English lesson plan for Business English, built around a fictional website-launch team whose weekly meeting one colleague misses.
Master the language of budget trends and statistics with this Business English listening lesson plan on the subscription economy, built around a podcast episode on how recurring monthly fees have changed household budgets since 2015.