Teaching resources

Use this lesson with secondary and adult learners at CEFR Level A2 and B1. Learners will do speaking, listening and writing activities related to a photo. 

Summer love is a complete set of teaching resources designed around interesting and unusual photographs with activities to activate your learners’ higher level critical thinking skills.

This pack looks at the topics of holidays, love and change, and incorporates a focus on story-writing and speaking skills, as well as listening for gist and specific information.

In this lesson, learners will listen to someone talking about a photo dealing with the themes of travel, childhood and child labour practices, and then write their own story from the photo.

In this lesson, learners at B2-level will listen to someone describing a photo of two young workers and try to recreate it from what they hear.

Kaleidoscope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

This lesson introduces learners to a traditional song about animals with a series of structured activities.

This lesson introduces learners to a popular story about super powers with a series of structured activities. 

Use this lesson to explore the topic of reality TV and emotions through drama. 

This lesson is for students with a fairly advanced level of language proficiency.

Jane Austen’s texts have a history of been adapted to other media, especially because of the skilful way in which she deals with dialogue.