Worksheets and Lesson Plans for modern EFL Teachers.
Lesson 13: Choose a movie (websearch, reading, speaking, film vocabulary)
Rotten Tomatoes: harsh, but brilliant.
Just before the Oscar frenzy gets to everyone, here’s an effective lesson based on the idea of choosing a good movie for a group of people.
The website for this lesson is Rotten Tomatoes – a must for every cinema lover. It turns out that it makes for a good authentic English lesson, too. The synopses and reviews (scroll down when on the website to see those) are informative and brief – and on the whole, the website provides your students with lost of good English film vocabulary.
A word of advice: get ready for a lot of data transfers when using this lesson – especially if you give your students enough time to watch the trailers!
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Lesson 18: Wales webquest [reading, speaking, cultural awareness]
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Everybody knows about St Patricks’s Day. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s one of my favourite holidays (watch out for an Irish-themed lesson in a few days!). But how about Wales? This lesson has been inspired partly by my recent trip to Swansea, and partly by the fact that it’s Saint David’s Day
Lesson 16: Unplugged Speed Date
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
This is a perfect follow-up for all the Valentine’s Day madness – also because it requires very little preparation and relies on the ideas and language your learners will generate. The concept of “speed dating” is made a little less threatening by including stick figures in the plan – so that the students don’t actually
Lesson 15: If it were my home…[comparing, speaking, conditionals]
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This is a good lesson for visual learners – and a useful contribution to any themes revolving around politics, geography or global affairs. Three things that make this lesson a success are: – a series of engaging, authentic tasks – going from easy to the more challenging ones towards the end, – a clear communicative
Lesson 14: Travelling in London (reading, websearch, transport, travelling)
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There are many reasons for having a lesson like this. I can remember one quite clearly. One of the groups learning English in London at a summer school I worked for could never make it on time for the afternoon classes. The reason? They spent most of their days lost on the Tube with their
Lesson 12: Unplugged: Resolution Clinic [writing, speaking, advice]
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This lesson is about New Year resolutions. Two things that set it apart from the usual “Make-a-resolution-and-talk-about-it” lesson are: There’s a twist to the early stages of the lesson, in which students are asked to imagine why a sad stick figure would decide to make big resolutions. This lesson – working on many levels, with
Lesson 10: Giving advice [functions, vocabulary, reading, writing]
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There are countless ways of preparing a lesson on giving advice. This is not just another one, for at least three reasons: – It’s a lot more authentic, and it lets students look for possible solutions themselves. – Its final focus is writing – by using the functional language in an e-mail, students gain extra
Lesson 9: The National Gallery, London [speaking, reading, vocabulary]
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The National Gallery in London has one of the best and most informative websites I have come across. It’s full of useful information, and features miniatures of nearly every work of art on display. The lesson presented below combines a web-based task with a communicative task (presenting a painting and discussing it). The website should
