Lesson plans and ideas
Lesson plans, activities, games, practical ideas and tips for you to use in your TEFL classes.
Three Fun Ideas for Teaching Grammar
Here are some ideas to help you make grammar teaching interesting, pleasant or at least as painless as possible.
How to Use Cartoons and Comics in TEFL
Who doesn’t love cartoons and comics? They can be used in English language teaching in a number of ways. So what's the difference and how can we use them?
Activity to practise Questions and Narrative Tenses
Use this activity at elementary level upwards, either as a warmer or as a practice activity for forming yes/no questions, reported questions or narrative tenses.
My Favourite EFL Classroom Warmers
An effective warmer could make the difference between an alert and participating class, and a group of zombies who decide to catch up on the sleep they missed out on from partying the night before.
Modals of Obligation Lesson Plan
This is a one hour guided discovery lesson suitable for intermediate level learners, in the context of "unusual sports".
10 TEFL Activities with Little Preparation
10 ideas for activities that don't need a lot of preparation, and can be adapted to many different language points, giving you something that can be used again and again.
Creating Materials for the EFL Classroom
How to produce highly successful, dynamic ESL lessons using authentic materials, just by getting to know your students.
Interactive Story Telling
How to use interative story telling to practise both listening and speaking skills.
Writing with Story Grids
This activity needs minimal preparation and can be used as a filler, as written practice of a grammar point or to practise writing in different genres.
Passengers – A Personalised Listening Activity
Here's one idea to make yor listening activities more personalised and interactive and move away from "Listen to the conversation and identify the main topic".
How to Use Roleplays in ESL Teaching
Use these 7 tips for using roleplays in your ESL classes to transition your students into real world situations.
How to Correct English Writing Errors
How to use Group Writing for error correction so that your students benefit from their peers, learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others, and make efficient use of their and your time.