Lesson Plans

Students use although and even though to contrast ideas about work, then write their opinion on a four-day working week.

Students choose between the present perfect and past simple to talk about life experiences, then write about things they have done and when.

Students use should have, could have and might have to talk about past mistakes, then write about a time when something went wrong.

Students use the present perfect continuous to talk about recent activities and their results, then write an email about a hobby or home project.

Students use the third conditional to talk about past decisions and regrets, then write about an important decision and what might have happened instead.

Students use the second conditional to give advice and talk about situations that aren't real, then write a reply to a friend facing a difficult decision.

Students practise zero and first conditionals to talk about technology and its results, then write advice for a friend with a new smartphone.

Students use question tags to check information and keep a conversation going while networking at a conference, then write a follow-up email to a new contact.

Students learn to report statements, questions and commands from interviews, then interview someone and write a short report of what they said.

Students use defining relative clauses with who, which, that and whose to describe people and jobs at work, then describe a workplace they know.

Students use the past perfect to talk about earlier events in travel stories, then write about a journey when something went wrong.

Students use used to and would to talk about past habits and how places have changed, then write about the neighbourhood where they grew up.

Students learn to use the passive to talk about famous inventions and discoveries, then write about the history of an everyday object.

Students use the future continuous to talk about what they'll be doing at times next week, ask polite questions about plans, and write an email arranging a meeting.