Lesson plans and ideas
Ready-made TEFL lesson plans, ideas and activities tested in classrooms. Practical resources to make English lessons engaging and effective.
How to Use Mind Maps in the ESL Classroom
Traditional vocabulary lists don’t always stick - but mind maps offer a more memorable, brain-friendly way to learn and organise new language.
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".
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.
9 Ways to Use Art in the ESL Classroom
What happens when we bring art into an English lesson? Pictures, colour, and creativity can open unexpected doors to real language use.
15 Creative Ways to Use Video in Your ESL Classroom
Go beyond “watch and listen”. Try these simple, engaging ways to turn any video into real classroom interaction.
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.
Why and How to Use Songs to Teach EFL
Music is one of the most powerful - and often underused - tools you can bring into your EFL classroom. Done well, songs make lessons more engaging, memorable, and authentic. But it’s not enough to simply hit play and hand out a worksheet.
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.
How to Use Authentic and Graded Materials Effectively in TEFL
Should you stick to the coursebook? Bring in real-world texts? Or create your own resources? The materials you choose can transform a lesson - but only if you choose them with thought and adapt them to your learners’ needs.
This, That, These, Those Lesson Plan
This is a one hour Guided Discovery lesson suitable for elementary level learners, designed to build accuracy and confidence with demonstrative determiners in the context of "classroom objects".
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.
Writing with Story Grids
A flexible writing task that needs almost no preparation and works for grammar practice, storytelling, or any writing genre.
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.
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.
