Lesson Plans

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.