Lesson plans and ideas
Ready-made TEFL lesson plans, ideas and activities tested in classrooms. Practical resources to make English lessons engaging and effective.
Interactive Storytelling in the ESL Classroom
How to use storytelling as a two-way exchange that builds confidence, fluency, and active listening in your ESL lessons.
Activity to practise Questions and Narrative Tenses
Use this activity at elementary level upwards, either as a warmer or as a practice activity for forming yes/no questions, reported questions or narrative tenses.
From Comics to Memes: Using Visual Humour in English Teaching
Visual humour - from classic cartoons to modern memes - can make English lessons more memorable, more motivating, and far more fun. Here’s how to use them creatively and meaningfully in class or online.
How to Teach Word Stress in English
Wrong word stress can often cause more communication breakdown than a grammar or vocabulary error. Yet it's one of the areas teachers feel least confident about. Here's how to approach it clearly.
TEFL Lesson Plan: Teaching Infinitives of Purpose Using a James Bond Film
Here’s an intermediate level Bond-based lesson plan using scenes from Casino Royale, focusing on 'so that…' and 'infinitives of purpose'.
10 TEFL Activities with Little or No Preparation
10 tried-and-tested TEFL activities that need little or no preparation. Adaptable for grammar, vocabulary, or skills practice at any level.
Modals of Obligation Lesson Plan
This is a ready-to-teach, one-hour, guided discovery lesson plan for modals of obligation and necessity, built around the context of explaining sports rules.
How We Met: Storytelling Lesson Plan for Narrative Tenses
This is a one hour lesson to teach narrative tenses to upper intermediate level learners, using the theme of "How We Met".
Writing with Story Grids
A flexible writing task that needs almost no preparation and works for grammar practice, storytelling, or any writing genre.
3 Powerful Ways to Add Drama to Your EFL / ESL Class
How to bring role-play, improvisation, and short scenes into your lessons, and why drama makes language learning more engaging and memorable.
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Lesson Plan
This is a one hour situational presentation lesson suitable for elementary level learners, in the context of "famous people", designed to develop both accuracy and fluency with comparative and superlative forms.
How to Use Role-plays in ESL Teaching
Seven classroom-tested ways to use role-plays to lower anxiety, boost fluency, and bridge the gap between classroom and real life.
25 Practical TEFL Warmers and Fillers
Warmers and fillers are an essential part of an EFL teacher’s toolkit. Choose them well, and they can be the difference between a class that’s engaged and ready to participate, and one that sits silently, half-asleep and distracted.
Passengers – A Personalised Listening Activity
Here's one idea to make your listening activities more personalised and interactive and move away from "Listen to the conversation and identify the main topic".
How to Correct English Writing Errors
Practical, classroom-tested ways to correct writing errors using group writing and other smart routines that make feedback more effective.
