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 Summer Holidays
Lesson Duration:
2 x 50mins
Lesson Level:
ESOL Intermediate / KS3 English
Date Lesson Uploaded:
18/06/2007
Description:

This lesson provides an excellent opportunity for students to use and develop their reading, listening and writing skills while planning a fun summer holiday in Newquay. Newquay is one of the top tourist destinations in the UK and in this lesson students will visit a brilliant website where they will get to watch TV clips of what Newquay is like and what you can do there.

  • Fun and useful task-based activities to accompany 6 different online TV clips about Newquay.
  • Students are introduced to a range of holiday vocabulary about accommodation and tourist attractions.
  • Short writing activities for students to write a postcard and to describe how to surf.
  • Final activity where students will use a specified website to help them plan and organise their summer holiday in Newquay.
Lesson downloaded 917 times

 Football Results and League Tables
Lesson Duration:
60 mins
Lesson Level:
KS3 English / Intermediate
Date Lesson Uploaded:
17/09/2007
Description:

A fun and motivating 60 minute lesson to improve students' speaking skills. During this lesson the students will be introduced to some useful football vocabulary and will learn a wide range of typical phrases and structures to describe football results.

  • 2 part worksheet to introduce students to lots of useful football vocabulary.
  • Practical exercises to use the language by describing the latest Euro 2008 results and league tables. 
  • Web-based activity for the students to freely use their language on the Euro 2008 and the FIFA Women's World Cup websites.
  • This lesson would link well with the Football Commentating lesson below.
Lesson downloaded 40 times

 Online Cooking Videos
Lesson Duration:
45 mins
Lesson Level:
Intermediate / KS3 English
Date Lesson Uploaded:
02/04/2007
Description:

In this useful lesson students will get to develop their listening skills by watching a couple of short TV clips about food that can be downloaded from the internet. The lesson provides 2 detailed worksheets packed with interesting tasks and activities to make the most of the 2 video clips.

  • Students will take notes on a short video clip explaining a recipe.
  • Students will prepare and explain their own recipe using the language and style from the video clip as an example.
  • The second video provides an interesting guide to help parents encourage their kids to eat healthy food.
  • FCE / CAE style listening activity based on the video clip.
  • Useful task to improve the students' skills at using search engines.
Lesson downloaded 46 times

 Jobs, Careers and Entrepreneurs
Lesson Duration:
2 x 1 hour
Lesson Level:
Upper-Intermediate / KS3 English
Date Lesson Uploaded:
25/02/2007
Description:

This comprehensive lesson pack will provide students with some stimulating and useful materials to help them consider what jobs they are interested in and what those jobs entail.

  • Excellent writing tasks where students will write job descriptions on jobs they are interested in. The materials include a range of useful vocabulary to use in the tasks.
  • An interesting newspaper article with comprehension questions about how getting involved in charity work can improve your work skills, and provide a valuable addition to your cv.
  • A couple of motivating and inspiring worksheets that use some online clips that will help students see what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Lesson downloaded 95 times

 Football Commentating
Lesson Duration:
60 mins
Lesson Level:
Intermediate+
Date Lesson Uploaded:
18/06/2006
Description:

In this lesson the students will learn how to commentate on football matches. The materials have been designed to be fun for all students and provide a great way to develop fluency and quick thinking in English.

  • The worksheets include a wide range of basic football vocabulary to get you and your students started.
  • It includes a variety of ideas to help students learn how to commentate on football matches by using a range of techniques, not all of which rely on football vocabulary.
  • There is also an extra activity for students to write a match report on a football match. 
Lesson downloaded 312 times

 
 

 

 
 
 

 

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