Lesson plans and ideas
Ready-made TEFL lesson plans, ideas and activities tested in classrooms. Practical resources to make English lessons engaging and effective.
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.
This, That, These, Those Lesson Plan
This is a one hour Guided Discovery lesson suitable for elementary level learners, designed to build accuracy and confidence with demonstrative determiners in the context of "classroom objects".
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.
How to Teach Word Stress in English
Wrong word stress can often cause more communication breakdown than a grammar or vocabulary error. Yet it's one of the areas teachers feel least confident about. Here's how to approach it clearly.
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 to Use Role-plays in ESL Teaching
Seven classroom-tested ways to use role-plays to lower anxiety, boost fluency, and bridge the gap between classroom and real life.
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".
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".
