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Living in English
Introduce your students to practical vocabulary and skills required for living in an English speaking country. These comprehensive lessons cover topics of relevance for teens and adults, such as employment, housing, travel, and health.
10 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Discussion Starters
This lesson includes audio.Grab your students' attention with this growing library of simple, short worksheets based on topics designed to get even the quietest students talking.These easily adaptable lessons are interactive in nature and suitable for low intermediate to advanced learners and multi-level classrooms or tutoring sessions.
62 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate)
Mini Debates
Challenge your students to voice their opinions about hot topics from the news. The readings and exercises will entice students to use new vocabulary while speaking out in small groups.
25 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Detective Series - The Case of the Missing Ring
This lesson includes audio.A who dunnit for ESL learners! This mystery English course features 11 lessons full of idioms and characters that your intermediate-advanced students will grow to love. Each episode features a dialog between the famous Detective Bossley and one of his prime suspects. Who stole the missing ring?
18 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Everyday Idioms - Conversation Practice
This lesson includes audio.Everyday Idioms (1) is the ongoing story of Jon & Amy, told through 20 short English dialogs. The conversation course is based on true life scenarios such as girls' night out, a new crush, and dealing with depression. Each lesson introduces 10 new idioms that your students will be 'pumped' to add to their vocabulary.
20 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Everyday Idioms (Part 2) - First Year
This lesson includes audio.Due to popular demand, Everyday Idioms is back with a new course featuring Kate, an English Lit. student in first year university. Introduce your students to relevant idioms based on real life dilemmas, such as leaving home, dealing with a roommate, and balancing work, school and social life.
19 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Everyday Dialogues
These ready-to-teach dialogs and short conversations get your students practicing the language of everyday tasks such as grocery shopping or going to the bank. Students work in pairs to polish their speaking skills.
29 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Famous People
This lesson includes audio.From inventors to politicians, from celebrities to humanitarians, teach your students about famous, legendary or influential people from across the globe.
77 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate)
Famous Places
Take your students around the world with Famous Places ESL lesson plans. These lesson plans focus on architectural monuments and geographical locations of historical or cultural significance. Just like our other 'Famous' lessons, Famous Places include a one-page reading, reading comprehension tasks, vocabulary development and group discussions.
31 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Famous Things
This lesson includes audio.Do your students know the origin of wine, the Internet, or hockey? Our popular Famous Things lesson plans are based on revolutionary products, inventions, and "things" that have helped shape or influence our lives and economies.
47 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Mini Biographies
Mini-Biographies are a beginner-level version of our Famous People lesson plans. Each short lesson comes with a half-page reading about a famous person, place, or thing, followed by reading comprehension questions, vocabulary development exercises, and a word search for fun.
23 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Office Life - Business English
This lesson includes audio.Office Life is a series of Business English lesson plans that follow an ongoing storyline in an office setting. Students practice business writing, talking on the telephone, negotiating, and instant messaging. Introduce your students to meaningful business English expressions & phrases.
14 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Business in English
Our Business-in-English lesson plans are an excellent resource for upper-intermediate to advanced level students. Each lesson focuses on an interesting story in the business world, and leads to great discussions and debates.
10 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Traveling in English
Do your English learners have the travel bug? These practical lessons are built around short dialogs about typical activities travelers experience, such as booking a hotel, going through security, or losing luggage.
16 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Holidays
This lesson includes audio.Our holiday themed lesson library grows each month. This popular section features a variety of beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons to enlighten your students about holidays and traditions celebrated all over the earth. Plan ahead each month by printing out our featured holiday lesson.
36 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Every Day Is a Holiday
These discussion centered holiday lessons highlight special days and events celebrated by the few or the many each calendar year. These mini lessons can be used to inspire informal pair chats or full-fledged classroom debates.
18 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Grammar Practice Worksheets
Who says grammar is boring? Our Grammar Practice worksheets are filled with useful, everyday language that will not just boost your students' grammar skills, but will help develop their fluency too. These worksheets can be used as additional exercises for early finishers or those who require extra work.
36 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Advanced)
Grammar Stories
This lesson includes audio.What better way to introduce grammar than in context through original stories? Each lesson in this series features two or three fun short stories to help reinforce a specific target structure, such as a simple verb tense or a new word form.
21 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Easy Grammar Sentences
Nobody wants to study grammar alone! Teach or review basic grammar structures using these comprehensive and interactive grammar lessons that involve pair and group work.
41 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner to Intermediate)
Simple Sentences
Simple Sentences is a theme based vocabulary building section for beginner English learners. In addition to learning and reviewing basic vocabulary, students practice simple English sentences using visual cues. Each lesson includes individual, pair, and group activities.
11 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner)
Health Matters
What could be more important than your students' health? These intermediate-level English lessons are based on modern topics on healthy living and are centred around magazine-style lists.
14 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Role Plays
This section offers short scenarios for practicing English in real life situations. Students play various practical roles including shopper, patient, supervisor, parent, and more. The audience has to pay attention in order to answer the class questions!
8 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
Functional English
Use these short conversation practice worksheets with your absolute beginners. Learners practice basic English vocabulary and expressions required for everyday interactions. Includes individual and pair work.
15 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Beginner)
American Presidents
All the American Presidents will be featured in this new English Lesson Plan section. Each lesson plan includes a one-page biography, reading comprehension and group discussions.
44 Printable English Lesson Plans
(Intermediate to Advanced)
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The Grass Is Always Greener… When You Paint It
Here is a fun way to introduce the English saying "The grass is always greener on the other side". This fun story is an interesting way to explore the differences between "literal" and "figurative" language.
Resume, Résumé, or Resumé?
ESL-Library blog: May 23, 2013
Spelling decision time! What do you do when there are acceptable variants of the same word? Business English teachers, especially, need to consider which spelling they should use.
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