In this lesson students will learn how to write fun, and possibly romantic, 'Roses are Red' poems for Valentine's Day.

• Useful worksheet to help students think of rhyming words for their poems.
• Gap-fill exercises for example poems.
• Great online activities with a chance for students to submit their poems for a chance to win a rose.
• Extra activity for higher level students to win a romantic weekend at a hotel in the UK.
• Includes mapping to the ESOL Core Curriculum.

This webquest provides a fun and practical way for students to practice their English in a real way on the internet. It also offers an excellent opportunity to help students develop and improve their web navigation skills.

Students also get to find out lots about London:

This useful and enjoyable lesson will help students to improve their skills at addressing envelopes and writing short notes for letters and parcels to be posted to the UK. The lesson will also show students how to use the Royal Mail website.

• Detailed worksheet with examples of badly addressed envelopes.
• Students will learn how to use the Royal Mail website to find out UK postcodes and postage prices.
• Interesting task based activities for the students to write short notes to accompany letters and parcels that they need to send.

An innovative sample lesson based around the theme of magic. This 2-page worksheet uses some brilliant magic videos from Marco Tempest's series of phone camera magic and is designed to give students practice of using regular and irregular verbs in the past simple.

• The first worksheet introduces students to a wide range of useful verbs and vocabulary associated with magic.
• Students also discuss their opinions on different types of magic.
• In the second worksheet, students will develop their skills at using regular and irregular verbs in the past through watching and describing some brilliant magic videos from Marco Tempest.

This fun and useful lesson will help students to improve their vocabulary in the area of describing houses. It could be taught as a 2 hour class or as 2, 1 hour classes. Although the materials have been designed to interact with an online estate agent's, they would work equally well with newspaper cuttings or some estate agent brochures.

• 2 worksheets full of activities to teach students about all the different types of houses and how to describe them using those classic estate agent phrases.
• Students will use the award winning estate agent website from Foxtons to find a property they want to sell.
• The lesson includes an extra worksheet with screenshots from the Foxtons website to help the students navigate this excellent website.
• The students will produce a fact sheet on their chosen property. Then, armed with their factsheet and all their new vocabulary, they will try to sell their property to the other students in the class.

Mapped to the ESOL Core Curriculum and to the National Curriculum

In this lesson students will get to use the EasyJet website to search for cheap flights from the UK to a European city of their choice. This will provide them with loads of interesting information to practice comparing and contrasting the prices and times of different flights. 

• The lesson starts with a short gap-fill text for students to learn a little about the history of EasyJet.
• The students also get guided materials with screenshots to show them how to use the EasyJet website and the route map to search for flights.
• Plus, there is a completed example using flight prices and times between the UK and Berlin with a variety of comparative and superlative phrases for the students to use.
• This lesson has excellent application for both literacy and numeracy practice.

This useful lesson provides an excellent way for lower level students to practice how to say all sorts of numbers without hesitating. Plus, they will get to find out loads of interesting statistics about London.

• The lesson starts with a guide how to say a wide variety of numbers: big numbers, small numbers, decimals, fractions, percentages and prices.
• This leads into a great activity where the students have to go round the class sharing interesting statistics and taking notes about London.
• In the final part of the worksheet the students have to use their notes to complete a gap-fill about London using all their new numbers!
• This brilliant worksheet prepares students to go and research some statistics about another town.

A useful and informative, lesson to teach students a little about the history of Remembrance Day. 

Worksheet 1 asks students why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day. Students are given a little history of Remembrance Day and will get to read and listen to the famous WW1 poem 'On Flanders fields' to find the answer.

Worksheet 2 introduces students to the WW1 photographer James Hurley and some of his photography. Students will complete a reading comprehension about his photography and are asked to discuss how his work depicts the war.

With Christmas coming!!, we've developed a nice free lesson to introduce your students to eBay, the most popular website in the world. Your students' mission (should they choose to accept it) is to find 3 presents for people this Christmas within a £100 budget.

• 'What is eBay?' factsheet activity will get students sharing amazing facts about eBay.
• 'How to read eBay listings' worksheet will help students to understand how to use the eBay website and to understand all the information.
• Then students will be ready for their shopping mission to find 3 Christmas presents. They will browse eBay for 3 suitable items, reading the product descriptions to find the best presents.
• A great way to practice English in an authentic way. It can also work really well if you limit your students to a type of item. eg clothing.

This simple, but highly effective worksheet, provides an opportunity for all levels to practice their writing skills based on some picture prompts.

• Students will write a holiday postcard based on some pictures they are given.
• Students then go to www.webshots.com where they get to choose their own photos for another fun imaginary picture postcard!