Lesson plans and ideas
Ready-made TEFL lesson plans, ideas and activities tested in classrooms. Practical resources to make English lessons engaging and effective.
Passengers – A Personalised Listening Activity
Here's one idea to make your listening activities more personalised and interactive and move away from "Listen to the conversation and identify the main topic".
10 TEFL Activities with Little or No Preparation
10 tried-and-tested TEFL activities that need little or no preparation. Adaptable for grammar, vocabulary, or skills practice at any level.
How to Use Authentic and Graded Materials Effectively in TEFL
Should you stick to the coursebook? Bring in real-world texts? Or create your own resources? The materials you choose can transform a lesson - but only if you choose them with thought and adapt them to your learners’ needs.
“Used to” Lesson Plan
This is a one hour lesson suitable for intermediate level (B1-B2 CEFR) learners. It uses a listening text to set the context for eliciting the target language.
From Comics to Memes: Using Visual Humour in English Teaching
Visual humour - from classic cartoons to modern memes - can make English lessons more memorable, more motivating, and far more fun. Here’s how to use them creatively and meaningfully in class or online.
Interactive Storytelling in the ESL Classroom
How to use storytelling as a two-way exchange that builds confidence, fluency, and active listening in your ESL lessons.
3 Powerful Ways to Add Drama to Your EFL / ESL Class
How to bring role-play, improvisation, and short scenes into your lessons, and why drama makes language learning more engaging and memorable.
Writing with Story Grids
A flexible writing task that needs almost no preparation and works for grammar practice, storytelling, or any writing genre.
How to Use Mind Maps in the ESL Classroom
Traditional vocabulary lists don’t always stick - but mind maps offer a more memorable, brain-friendly way to learn and organise new language.
9 Ways to Use Art in the ESL Classroom
What happens when we bring art into an English lesson? Pictures, colour, and creativity can open unexpected doors to real language use.
How to Correct English Writing Errors
Practical, classroom-tested ways to correct writing errors using group writing and other smart routines that make feedback more effective.
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Lesson Plan
This is a one hour situational presentation lesson suitable for elementary level learners, in the context of "famous people", designed to develop both accuracy and fluency with comparative and superlative forms.
25 Practical TEFL Warmers and Fillers
Warmers and fillers are an essential part of an EFL teacher’s toolkit. Choose them well, and they can be the difference between a class that’s engaged and ready to participate, and one that sits silently, half-asleep and distracted.
How We Met: Storytelling Lesson Plan for Narrative Tenses
This is a one hour lesson to teach narrative tenses to upper intermediate level learners, using the theme of "How We Met".
TEFL Lesson Plan: Teaching Infinitives of Purpose Using a James Bond Film
Here’s an intermediate level Bond-based lesson plan using scenes from Casino Royale, focusing on 'so that…' and 'infinitives of purpose'.
