Lesson Plans

Students learn to use non-defining relative clauses to add information about towns and landmarks, then write a short guide to a town.

Students learn to use despite and in spite of to describe sporting comebacks, then write about someone who succeeded against the odds.

Students practise the future perfect to talk about career and life goals, then write a five-year plan for themselves.

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

Students practise all forms of the passive to describe changes at work, then write a short report for a newsletter.

Students learn how to open, request, chase and close in professional emails, and write a polite but firm chasing email to a supplier.

Students practise wish and if only to talk about regrets and wishes about city living, then write a housing forum post.

Students learn to use it-cleft sentences to emphasise points when talking about films, then write a short review of a film or series.

Students practise must have, can't have and might have to work out what happened in travel mix-ups, then write a travel mystery.

Students practise the past perfect continuous to explain delays and travel problems, then write about a journey that went wrong.

Students learn to answer common job interview questions, talk positively about their strengths and weaknesses, and structure "Tell me about a time when…" answers with Situation, Task, Action and Result.

Students learn to use so and such … that to describe extreme weather and its results, then write about memorable weather.

Students practise reported speech across all tenses using witness statements, then write a short news report about an incident.

Students practise mixed conditionals to talk about life choices and their results today, then write about a turning point in a life.