Worksheets and Lesson Plans for modern EFL Teachers.
Lesson 15: If it were my home…[comparing, speaking, conditionals]
For visual learners, the map module puts things in perspective.
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 focus – students rely on speaking and listening to convey and acquire information they need for later tasks and stages,
- a brilliant website – “If it were my home” gives you lots of easily accessible and readable demographic / geographical data which you can discuss with your class.
The website itself is easy to navigate (just make sure you allow it to access yor location). All the tasks can take a while to perform – allow at least 60 minutes for this lesson, and use a shorter version (outlined in the plan) if needed.
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Lesson 18: Wales webquest [reading, speaking, cultural awareness]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
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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 14: Travelling in London (reading, websearch, transport, travelling)
about 1 year ago - No comments
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 13: Choose a movie (websearch, reading, speaking, film vocabulary)
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
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
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
