Teaching resources

Learners explore the topic of cycling in this lesson. Activities focus on developing speaking and reading skills. 

This activity looks at the problem of whether verbs are followed by the gerund or infinitive. At Upper Intermediate level (B2 on the CEF level and FCE Cambridge exams) students are confronted with this problem and it is often useful to practise more thoroughly to help the difference in meaning of the verbs become part of the learners’ active knowledge.

This story is based on a well-known children’s joke and provides practice of the question Have I got ...?

This article provides advice and suggestions for using plays or drama in the language classroom – which can be enormously rewarding and enjoyable for teachers as well as learners.

These are three activities you can use at the end of a school year or course.

After teaching your pupils for a year you will probably have forgotten how much you’ve taught them and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find out how much they actually remember. The last lesson is a great opportunity for having some fun and reviewing the year’s work at the same time.

This is a popular topic with young learners as it is easy for them to relate to the situations and it provides many opportunities to practise using the language in a communicative and real context. 

This group speaking activity involves learners inventing an unusual machine.

Discover a range of activities which use all five senses and help make language learning more memorable.

This lesson explores the theme of sustainable living in relation to transport.

This activity is about energy and renewable resources. It builds awareness of different renewable energy solutions and is aimed at learners aged ten years and up.

This activity is about the uses of water. It looks at how some of us do things with water every day, while some people in some parts of the world are not able to do them.