Thanksgiving Day – lesson ideas for younger learners (A1)
With its gloomy short days November is definitely not my favourite month. However, as this is the time of the year when I am able to focus more on work, I decided to prepare...
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Present Simple – lesson ideas for A1/A2 students
I’m sure you know the feeling when you are lost in the amount of teaching materials you have created so far, and as a consequence, you create more and more because you’ve already forgotten...
‘Will’ or ‘be going to’? – lesson plan (A2-B1)
‘Will‘ vs ‘be going to‘ – it has never been easy to teach the differences between the two structures. I hope you will find the ideas helpful. Introduction Immediate Practice will or be going...
Picture Dictation – detecting mistakes (A1/A2)
It’s high time to come up with a new lesson idea. What I would like to share with you today is this picture dictation activity which may allow your students to practise their listening...
Peppa Pig is going on her summer vacation – a video lesson (A1)
Peppa Pig’s family is going on their summer vacation. They fly to a sunny and hot place and stay on a campsite. This video and the quiz can be used either at the...
Back-to-School activities (A1 – A2)
Every year at this very moment I ask myself, “Where has the time gone?” We must face the truth and come to terms with the summer be over soon. And yes, as the new...
Ordering breakfast may be a challenge – vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension lesson (B1 – B2)
Ordering food in a restaurant is never easy and can turn into quite a process. Simply saying “Pizza, please.” or “Scrambled eggs, please.” is usually not enough and the customers will surely be asked...
Idioms – part 2 – lesson ideas for B1/B2 students
Today I would like to share with you another lesson idea for teaching idioms to B1/B2 students. Ten new idioms and some new activities, including exercises for visual and kinaesthetic learners who learn best...
Idioms – part 1 – lesson ideas for B1/B2 students
Wikipedia states that there are about 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the English language. They say that what really gives the language its character is its idioms. Contrary to this statement, I cannot find many...
Present Perfect – lesson ideas for A1/A2 students
A few months ago I posted some lesson ideas for teaching the present perfect tense to B1 students (click the link if you are interested: Present Perfect – lesson ideas for B1 students ). Today...