All Materials

A B2 Business English lesson on speaking in public, built on a TED-Ed animation. Students learn phrases for nerves and for giving a good talk, find out what happens in the body when we speak in front of others, then use the video's tips to plan presentations, pitches and interviews at work.

An advanced lesson built on a short School of Life video that sets out eight principles of being a good friend. Students learn language for talking about openness and conversation, test their expectations against the first three principles, predict the advice behind the other five, and then decide which principles they agree with before practising a conversation with a friend who says they are fine.

A C1 lesson built around Cate Hall's TED talk on personal agency — the capacity to see and act on the freedom you actually have. Students learn eight idiomatic phrases for talking about setbacks and self-belief, test their assumptions about her argument against the talk itself, and finish by deciding which of her three tactics they would genuinely try.

An advanced lesson built on Kelly McGonigal's TED talk. Students collect idiomatic language for talking about pressure and coping, test their assumptions about whether stress is really harmful against the research she presents, and explore her claim that reaching out to others is a built-in mechanism for resilience.

A proficiency-level lesson built on Barry Schwartz's TED talk about why we work. Students learn idiomatic language for talking about motivation and job satisfaction, test their assumptions about his argument, predict how he explains the design of modern work, correct claims about Adam Smith, and decide for themselves whether pay is a good enough reason to work.