Johanna Stirling 
Our lesson plans give you in-depth materials to take straight into the classroom. Each section below has five parts, with downloadable worksheets and teacher notes. 
This is a lesson I made last week at extremely short notice but I had been wanting to use the film for a while. It's a really beautiful short film about a romantic situation I think anyone can relate with, especially if they have been young and travelling! It also has a really sweet yet subtle twist in it, that I didn't actually get until the second time of watching! Warning! This lesson will produce a lot of laughs and even more blushing!!!!!! 
Introducing students to the idea of lexical priming and a web tool called Netspeak 
In this lesson students deal with the issue of dangerous dogs, then go on to discuss the broader relationships that humans have with their canine chums. It is based around a BBC video in which a lo... 
This English for SAP exercise has its origins in a lesson I had with two A2 level in-company learners. One is the quality assurance manager and the other is technical manager in a factory in Bavari... This is a speaking task that encourages students to empathise with other people and try to understand them better. The activity uses a number of visuals of migrants and the students have to imagine they are the person in the picture. Sound pictures exploit young learners' love of drawing, associating pictures with sounds and spelling. This also helps students who have a visual learning style. 
Using games in the classroom 
Casual conversation. It's such an intrinsic part of any ESL program (or at least should be!), and yet raises all sorts of challenges in making it happen.
Includes very useful guidelines & tips. |
A whole heap of ideas to get students thinking & talking from James Taylor 
Here´s an idea for a lesson on telephoning that I successfully used with a group of managers in a logistics company this week. It seems that the majority of calls that in-work busine... 
I came across this short video while reading the paper, clicked on it and was strangely mesmerised. I found it beautiful and compelling but at the same time very thought-provoking. I then discovered two more things: firstly, that I was one of the few people on the planet still unaware of its existence and secondly, that not all people felt it was as pure and innocent as I did. The exercise also makes use of the online comments on the article in the paper, which is something I think is a brilliant resource for vocabulary and discussion. 
A Designer Lessons ESL lesson plan by Neil McMillan It’s getting perilously close to the Cambridge FCE, CAE and CPE exams here in Barcelona. If your preparation courses, like mine, are finishing ... 
This comes from the teacher’s guide to a well-known coursebook series: “By the end of Level 1, students will have learnt to express themselves simply but correctly in the present, past and fu... 
Ideas, materials and tips for a spelling activity I use this activity mainly to provide writing practice. It also practises question forms and encourages creativity. It is a student-centred activity which encourages collaboration and teamwork. This is a low preparation fun activity that works well with large classes, especially with young learners and teens. All your students need is a blank piece of paper and all the teacher needs is a little bit of imagination. 
Bringing pictures alive in the classroom 
Jonica Newby explores popular online games and discovers the pleasure and pain incentives that make them potentially addictive... Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir' and when to ‘settle' children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other. 
A channel to help teachers use games in the classroom... |
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