Printable lesson plans for busy ESL/EFL teachers
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Elementary Discussion Questions
Includes: conversation questions, conversation dialogue, gap-fill exercise and role-play.
- 10 PPT Country Jeopardy Games For The TEFL Classroom
- 15 Free Ice Breaker Worksheets and How to Use Them in Your ESL Class
- 3 TEFL/ESL Presentation Scripts For Use In The Classroom
- Adjectives -ed / -ing
- Adoption
- Adverbs of frequency
- Adverbs of manner
- Advertising
- Advice
- Aging / Ageing
- Albert Einstein
- Aliens
- Already, yet, ever, never, just, since, for
- Amazing Facts: True or False?
- Amazon.com
- Ambition
- American Presidents
- Animals
- Anti-war Protests
- Appearance
- Architecture
- Art
- Australia
- Backs To The Board
- Balloon / Rocket Debate
- Banks
- Beauty
- Biscuits
- Books
- Brains
- Camping
- Canada
- Cars
- Censorship
- Change
- Charity
- China
- Choices
- Cities
- Cloning
- Coco Chanel
- Colours
- Combining Ted Talks with IELTS: A Guide
- Communication
- Consumerism
- Consumerism
- Credit Cards
- Crime
- Dalai Lama
- Debt
- Disabilities
- Domestic Violence
- Dreaming
- Emails
- Empathy
- Entrepreneurs
- Equal Rights
- Ethics
- Ethics
- Europe
- Evolution
- Family
- Famine
- Farming
- Fear
- Fighting Terrorism
- France
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Freedom of speech
- Future
- Germany
- Happiness
- Have you ever
- Health Care System
- Homework: Should parents help?
- Hotels
- How to maximise use of images in the ESL/EFL classroom
- How to teach debate phrases
- How to teach quotations in the ESL classroom
- How to teach using online comments and vox pop replies
- How to teach with infographics in the ESL classroom
- How To Teaching Reading Comprehension In The Classroom?
- How to Use Conversation Questions In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- How to use elementary lesson plans
- How To Use Presentations In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- I Knew That!
- Immigration
- India
- Inflation
- Jobs
- Journalism
- Language
- Learning English
- London Congestion Charge
- Love
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Make Health a Habit – Reading Comprehension
- Manners
- Marlon Brando
- Marriage
- Medicine
- Muhammad Ali
- Music
- Natural Wonders
- Netflix / Streaming Services
- Nuclear Energy
- Obesity
- Pensions
- Peoples Republic of Bozatta: Budget Decisions
- Phrases for conversations, debates and discussions
- Pornography
- Presentation signposting / linking words / signalling phrases cheat sheet.
- Privacy
- Publishing
- Qualifications
- Recycling
- Refugees
- Religion
- Restaurants
- Robots
- Russia
- School
- Science Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Seasons
- Selfies
- Shopping
- Slavery
- Sleep
- Solar Power
- Steve Jobs
- Taxation
- Tea
- Technology
- TED IELTS: Young People and the World of Work, Includes IELTS Essay Plan
- Ted Talk Discussion: Are We Over-medicalized?
- TED Talk Discussion: Everyday Cybercrime — and What You Can Do About It
- TED Talk Discussion: How A Driverless Car Sees the Road
- TED Talk Discussion: How Protest Is Redefining Democracy Around the World
- TED Talk Discussion: How to Use Data to Make a Hit TV Show
- TED Talk Discussion: How We’ll Earn Money in a Future Without Jobs
- TED Talk Discussion: New Insights on Poverty
- TED Talk Discussion: Where is Home?
- TED Talk with IELTS Vocab and Writing Task 2: Housing Crisis
- TED Talks Lesson Plan: A Radical Experiment in Empathy
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Tourism
- Two Ways To Better Connect With Your Students
- United States
- United States
- Video Games
- Vitamin Pills: Just a waste of money?
- Voting
- Vаluе оf Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаking іn Моdеrn Тіmеs
- Weapons
- Welcome
- What’s in your garden?
- When was the first time
- Wikipedia
- Workplace Drinking
- Zombies
- Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаkіng – Ноw іt Саn Веnеfіt Yоur Соmраnу Оr Ѕсhооl
Intermediate Discussion Questions
Includes: quotations, conversation questions, and a mini-presentation
- 10 PPT Country Jeopardy Games For The TEFL Classroom
- 15 Free Ice Breaker Worksheets and How to Use Them in Your ESL Class
- 3 TEFL/ESL Presentation Scripts For Use In The Classroom
- Adjectives -ed / -ing
- Adoption
- Adverbs of frequency
- Adverbs of manner
- Advertising
- Advice
- Aging / Ageing
- Albert Einstein
- Aliens
- Already, yet, ever, never, just, since, for
- Amazing Facts: True or False?
- Amazon.com
- Ambition
- American Presidents
- Animals
- Anti-war Protests
- Appearance
- Architecture
- Art
- Australia
- Backs To The Board
- Balloon / Rocket Debate
- Banks
- Beauty
- Biscuits
- Books
- Brains
- Camping
- Canada
- Cars
- Censorship
- Change
- Charity
- China
- Choices
- Cities
- Cloning
- Coco Chanel
- Colours
- Combining Ted Talks with IELTS: A Guide
- Communication
- Consumerism
- Consumerism
- Credit Cards
- Crime
- Dalai Lama
- Debt
- Disabilities
- Domestic Violence
- Dreaming
- Emails
- Empathy
- Entrepreneurs
- Equal Rights
- Ethics
- Ethics
- Europe
- Evolution
- Family
- Famine
- Farming
- Fear
- Fighting Terrorism
- France
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Freedom of speech
- Future
- Germany
- Happiness
- Have you ever
- Health Care System
- Homework: Should parents help?
- Hotels
- How to maximise use of images in the ESL/EFL classroom
- How to teach debate phrases
- How to teach quotations in the ESL classroom
- How to teach using online comments and vox pop replies
- How to teach with infographics in the ESL classroom
- How To Teaching Reading Comprehension In The Classroom?
- How to Use Conversation Questions In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- How to use elementary lesson plans
- How To Use Presentations In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- I Knew That!
- Immigration
- India
- Inflation
- Jobs
- Journalism
- Language
- Learning English
- London Congestion Charge
- Love
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Make Health a Habit – Reading Comprehension
- Manners
- Marlon Brando
- Marriage
- Medicine
- Muhammad Ali
- Music
- Natural Wonders
- Netflix / Streaming Services
- Nuclear Energy
- Obesity
- Pensions
- Peoples Republic of Bozatta: Budget Decisions
- Phrases for conversations, debates and discussions
- Pornography
- Presentation signposting / linking words / signalling phrases cheat sheet.
- Privacy
- Publishing
- Qualifications
- Recycling
- Refugees
- Religion
- Restaurants
- Robots
- Russia
- School
- Science Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Seasons
- Selfies
- Shopping
- Slavery
- Sleep
- Solar Power
- Steve Jobs
- Taxation
- Tea
- Technology
- TED IELTS: Young People and the World of Work, Includes IELTS Essay Plan
- Ted Talk Discussion: Are We Over-medicalized?
- TED Talk Discussion: Everyday Cybercrime — and What You Can Do About It
- TED Talk Discussion: How A Driverless Car Sees the Road
- TED Talk Discussion: How Protest Is Redefining Democracy Around the World
- TED Talk Discussion: How to Use Data to Make a Hit TV Show
- TED Talk Discussion: How We’ll Earn Money in a Future Without Jobs
- TED Talk Discussion: New Insights on Poverty
- TED Talk Discussion: Where is Home?
- TED Talk with IELTS Vocab and Writing Task 2: Housing Crisis
- TED Talks Lesson Plan: A Radical Experiment in Empathy
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Tourism
- Two Ways To Better Connect With Your Students
- United States
- United States
- Video Games
- Vitamin Pills: Just a waste of money?
- Voting
- Vаluе оf Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаking іn Моdеrn Тіmеs
- Weapons
- Welcome
- What’s in your garden?
- When was the first time
- Wikipedia
- Workplace Drinking
- Zombies
- Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаkіng – Ноw іt Саn Веnеfіt Yоur Соmраnу Оr Ѕсhооl
Advanced Discussion Questions
Includes: quotations, conversation questions and a mini-presentation
- 10 PPT Country Jeopardy Games For The TEFL Classroom
- 15 Free Ice Breaker Worksheets and How to Use Them in Your ESL Class
- 3 TEFL/ESL Presentation Scripts For Use In The Classroom
- Adjectives -ed / -ing
- Adoption
- Adverbs of frequency
- Adverbs of manner
- Advertising
- Advice
- Aging / Ageing
- Albert Einstein
- Aliens
- Already, yet, ever, never, just, since, for
- Amazing Facts: True or False?
- Amazon.com
- Ambition
- American Presidents
- Animals
- Anti-war Protests
- Appearance
- Architecture
- Art
- Australia
- Backs To The Board
- Balloon / Rocket Debate
- Banks
- Beauty
- Biscuits
- Books
- Brains
- Camping
- Canada
- Cars
- Censorship
- Change
- Charity
- China
- Choices
- Cities
- Cloning
- Coco Chanel
- Colours
- Combining Ted Talks with IELTS: A Guide
- Communication
- Consumerism
- Consumerism
- Credit Cards
- Crime
- Dalai Lama
- Debt
- Disabilities
- Domestic Violence
- Dreaming
- Emails
- Empathy
- Entrepreneurs
- Equal Rights
- Ethics
- Ethics
- Europe
- Evolution
- Family
- Famine
- Farming
- Fear
- Fighting Terrorism
- France
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Freedom of speech
- Future
- Germany
- Happiness
- Have you ever
- Health Care System
- Homework: Should parents help?
- Hotels
- How to maximise use of images in the ESL/EFL classroom
- How to teach debate phrases
- How to teach quotations in the ESL classroom
- How to teach using online comments and vox pop replies
- How to teach with infographics in the ESL classroom
- How To Teaching Reading Comprehension In The Classroom?
- How to Use Conversation Questions In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- How to use elementary lesson plans
- How To Use Presentations In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- I Knew That!
- Immigration
- India
- Inflation
- Jobs
- Journalism
- Language
- Learning English
- London Congestion Charge
- Love
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Make Health a Habit – Reading Comprehension
- Manners
- Marlon Brando
- Marriage
- Medicine
- Muhammad Ali
- Music
- Natural Wonders
- Netflix / Streaming Services
- Nuclear Energy
- Obesity
- Pensions
- Peoples Republic of Bozatta: Budget Decisions
- Phrases for conversations, debates and discussions
- Pornography
- Presentation signposting / linking words / signalling phrases cheat sheet.
- Privacy
- Publishing
- Qualifications
- Recycling
- Refugees
- Religion
- Restaurants
- Robots
- Russia
- School
- Science Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Seasons
- Selfies
- Shopping
- Slavery
- Sleep
- Solar Power
- Steve Jobs
- Taxation
- Tea
- Technology
- TED IELTS: Young People and the World of Work, Includes IELTS Essay Plan
- Ted Talk Discussion: Are We Over-medicalized?
- TED Talk Discussion: Everyday Cybercrime — and What You Can Do About It
- TED Talk Discussion: How A Driverless Car Sees the Road
- TED Talk Discussion: How Protest Is Redefining Democracy Around the World
- TED Talk Discussion: How to Use Data to Make a Hit TV Show
- TED Talk Discussion: How We’ll Earn Money in a Future Without Jobs
- TED Talk Discussion: New Insights on Poverty
- TED Talk Discussion: Where is Home?
- TED Talk with IELTS Vocab and Writing Task 2: Housing Crisis
- TED Talks Lesson Plan: A Radical Experiment in Empathy
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Tourism
- Two Ways To Better Connect With Your Students
- United States
- United States
- Video Games
- Vitamin Pills: Just a waste of money?
- Voting
- Vаluе оf Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаking іn Моdеrn Тіmеs
- Weapons
- Welcome
- What’s in your garden?
- When was the first time
- Wikipedia
- Workplace Drinking
- Zombies
- Моtіvаtіоnаl Ѕреаkіng – Ноw іt Саn Веnеfіt Yоur Соmраnу Оr Ѕсhооl
Reference Articles:
- How to maximise use of images in the ESL/EFL classroom
- How to teach debate phrases
- How to teach quotations in the ESL classroom
- How to teach using online comments and vox pop replies
- How to teach with infographics in the ESL classroom
- How To Teaching Reading Comprehension In The Classroom?
- How to Use Conversation Questions In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- How to use elementary lesson plans
- How To Use Presentations In The ESL/EFL Classroom
- Phrases for conversations, debates and discussions
- Presentation signposting / linking words / signalling phrases cheat sheet.
Grammar Talking Points (any level)
Includes: quotations, conversation questions, and a mini-presentation
- Adjectives -ed / -ing
- Adverbs of frequency
- Adverbs of manner
- Already, yet, ever, never, just, since, for
- Have you ever
- When was the first time
Business Lessons (intermediate and above)
Includes: quotations, conversation questions, mini-presentations, vocab, an article, grammar points, a scenario and a video
Discussion Pyramids (any level)
Includes:
Quotation Talking Points (pre-intermediate and above)
Includes:
- Albert Einstein
- Coco Chanel
- Dalai Lama
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Happiness
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Marlon Brando
- Muhammad Ali
- Steve Jobs
- Tim Berners-Lee
- United States
Infographic Talking Points (Intermediate and above) Includes: Infographic image, discussion / conversation questions, presentation idea and task
Video Talking Points Includes: Video and discussion questions
Vox Pop Talking Points (advanced) Includes: real comments from English speaking users online. Ideal to create conversation
- Anti-war Protests
- Domestic Violence
- Fighting Terrorism
- Homework: Should parents help?
- London Congestion Charge
- Vitamin Pills: Just a waste of money?
- Workplace Drinking
Role-play activies Includes: Short article/scenario, images and role cards
