Lesson Plans

Students learn to use attitudinal adverbs like frankly and apparently to show opinion in reviews, then write their own online review.

Students build word families and negative prefixes around medical research headlines, then write a magazine article about whether health news can be trusted.

Students learn idioms for getting on, falling out and making up, then use them to write a short story about two people who reconcile.

Students learn the language of workplace health, safety and absence, explain causes and effects, and write an email to a board recommending improvements.

Students learn phrasal verbs for change and campaigning, like phase out and crack down on, then write a proposal for making their area greener.

Students learn strong collocations for public debate, like pose a threat, then write a letter giving their view on a local plan.

Students practise nouns, verbs and adjectives with dependent prepositions to talk about habits and distraction, then write a short article about changing a habit.

Students learn precise verbs, adverbs and prepositions for describing trends and figures, practise signposting a presentation, then write a short report on a company's sales.

Students learn idioms and fixed expressions for plans and problems through a renovation story, then write a blog post about a project that went wrong.

Students explore connotation, euphemism and spin in corporate language, then write a plain-speaking email replying to a company announcement full of euphemisms.

Students learn to choose precisely between near-synonyms, like imply and infer, through a festival row, then write a letter to the editor.