Teaching resources
Here you can find a wide range of practical resources to use in your classroom, whether you are teaching English to primary, secondary or adult learners. There are over 400 full lesson plans to choose from, covering different topics and themes, all organised according to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).
You’ll also find shorter activities and ideas for using songs, poems and stories to help your learners improve their English in engaging and motivating ways.
Resource books include books, self-access guides and collections of lesson plans for you to download in pdf format. We also have several practical activity books full of ideas and photocopiable material.
All of our teaching resources are written by experts in English language teaching and are free to download.
Tiny Cinderella Somewhere (lower level)
Use this lesson with secondary and adult students at CEFR Level A2 / B1. Students will practise listening and speaking activities related to a photograph.
13 - Adults
B1
60
Tiny Cinderella Somewhere (higher level)
Tiny Cinderella Somewhere is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills speaking about an image. The focus of this lesson is on the use of fixed phrases and idioms, sentence stress and telling the story behind an image.
13 - Adults
B2
60
A remote house in the west of Scotland (lower level)
This lesson uses a photo to help students develop strategies to clarify meaning. Use the lesson with secondary and adult students at CEFR level B1 and above.
13 - Adults
B1
60
A remote House in the West of Scotland (higher level)
Remote House in the West of Scotland is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher critical thinking skills to think and speak about visual images. In this lesson, students use listening, writing and vocabulary skills to construct a text around an image that they have chosen.
13 - Adults
B2
60
Tattoo - Possibilities (lower Level)
Use this lesson with secondary and adult students at CEFR Level A2 and B1. Students will do speaking, listening and writing activities related to a photo.
13 - Adults
B1
60
Tattoo - Possibilities (higher level)
Tattoo Possibilities is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher critical thinking skills. The focus on this lesson is hypothesising about an image using language prompts, reconstructing a text by means of a dictogloss, and practising speaking skills by speaking about values and attitudes.
13 - Adults
B2
60
Out of Time (higher Level)
Out of Time is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills. The focus of this lesson is on anticipating vocabulary to help understand a listening text, and on preparing and giving a presentation or monologue about a photograph.
13 - Adults
B2
60
After lunch (lower level)
'After lunch’ is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage learners to use their higher-level critical-thinking skills. The focus of this lesson is on use of adjectives, improving listening skills and speaking about local festivals.
13 - 17
B1
60
After Lunch (higher level)
After lunch is a set of teaching resources which encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills to talk about an image. The focus of this lesson is on students integrating listening, speaking, writing and vocabulary skills in the context of local festivals.
13 - Adults
B2
60
Alphabet
This lesson gives learners the opportunity to practise different aspects of the alphabet.
A1
Teaching unplugged - activities
If you’d like to have a first go at 'teaching unplugged’ your aim is simply to get students to produce language and then to use the language they produce as the basis for your lesson.
13 - Adults
A2
20
