Teaching resources

This lesson for primary learners introduces vocabulary related to school subjects and reviews days of the week.

Use this lesson to introduce secondary or adult learners at CEFR Level B1 to Shakespeare and his work. 

This latest activity in this series is suitable for intermediate + level students.

During the school year children can move house and change schools for various reasons. When they arrive in a new school it can be hard for them to adapt to their new classmates and for the classmates to accept a new class member. Learning a topic about moving house and changing schools will help your learners to see that it’s important to accept new people and that it can be hard but exciting for those who move. 

This activity is designed to be used as a consolidation exercise for the third conditional.

This activity is suitable for pre-intermediate students and above.

Coming into a primary English lesson should always be about having fun. The fun should obviously always be grounded in learning, but it’s important to always remember the enjoyment factor. This is why it’s good to base your lessons on subjects that children will automatically relate to.

This is a speaking exercise for pre-intermediate level learners and above. It practises the use of the ‘present perfect’ to talk about something (an activity or state) that starts in the past and continues now. It could be used to introduce this area or to provide further general practice later.

Read about some activities that are designed to provide practice for learners preparing for the IELTS, TOEFL and FCE tests.

In this activity students watch a clip from two different sitcoms and then they complete a table with information. 

This a semi-controlled writing activity which focuses on using the past continuous verb form to talk about events in the past. Learners write about what they were doing when they heard about an important event, either personal or public.

This activity is suitable for pre-intermediate level students and above. The students work in pairs A and B. They take it in turns to watch a sitcom clip and give a commentary to their partner who cannot see the screen. This is particularly useful for practising present continuous and descriptive language.