Teaching resources

The passport section of portfolios summarizes the owner’s linguistic identity, language-learning experiences and language qualifications in an internationally transparent manner.

This activity can be used with intermediate and upper-intermediate students and practises fluency as well as story-writing skills. It offers free practice of narrative tenses and sequential linking words, and helps foster cooperation and a sense of achievement as students work together to prepare and write their stories. It also solves the problem of giving up valuable class time to lengthy writing exercises and stops writing being such a lonely experience.

This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at pre-Intermediate and above explores the theme of the Northern Ireland. Students will build their knowledge of Northern Ireland and practice their reading skills.

This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at intermediate level and above explores the theme of the Wales. Students will build their knowledge of Wales and develop their reading skills.

This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at intermediate level and above explores the theme of the England. Students will build their knowledge of England and practise all four skills.

Children love learning about festivals and the way other people celebrate them. It’s also fascinating for them to compare how they celebrate the same festival in their own country.

Doing surveys can be a useful way of getting your students to interact, produce question forms and collect and analyse real information.

In this activity, learners attempt to re-write an inappropriately informal business letter in a more appropriate, formal style.

This is a pair work activity that works well with learners of all ages. It is especially appropriate for low level learners.

It is often necessary to recycle new words several times in class before they become part of learners’ active vocabulary, and the same is true of collocations.

This is a speaking exercise for intermediate learners which provides them with an opportunity to review and practise the 'should have’ structure for expressing regrets.