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Browse general English lessons covering everyday topics and practical language use. Teachers will find content for building overall English proficiency, including common situations, general vocabulary, conversation skills, and functional language. Ideal for well-rounded language development across multiple skill areas.
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Clocking in and time tracking systems
This downloadable PDF lesson plan helps A1 students learn essential vocabulary for the workplace, covering clocking in, shifts, and daily routines. Perfect for beginners starting their first job, this material includes vocabulary matching, listening, reading, and role-play scenar
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Lifestyle
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Business
Banking and managing your finances
This A2 ESL lesson helps students learn essential banking and personal finance vocabulary. Activities include discussing money habits, matching terms, listening, reading about a financial app, grammar, and a role-play to build confidence in managing money.
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Lifestyle
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Medical and healthcare industry terminology
This C1 ESL lesson helps students navigate healthcare systems. It covers key vocabulary (referral, prognosis, deductible), grammar for expressing certainty (modal verbs), and communication skills for medical appointments through listening, reading, and role-play activities.
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General
Lifestyle
Making and canceling appointments
This A1 English lesson teaches students to make and cancel appointments. Activities include vocabulary, listening, 'can/can't' grammar, a reading task about a clinic app, and role-play. It builds practical communication skills for beginners to manage arrangements.
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Practical English
Lifestyle
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Shopping for groceries and reading labels
A2 ESL lesson on grocery shopping, covering essential vocabulary, quantifiers, and practical phrases for smart consumerism. Activities include matching supermarket terms, listening to food labels, reading about misleading packaging, and a final role-play between customer and shop
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A1
Work
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Understanding work schedules and shifts
This PDF lesson helps A1 students discuss work schedules, covering key vocabulary and grammar for daily routines, shifts, and times. Activities include vocabulary matching, listening, simple present tense, prepositions of time, reading comprehension, and a guided speaking role-pl
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Practical English
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Grammar
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The last of puns: Understanding wordplay in English
Explore humor and wordplay with this engaging ESL lesson plan on puns. Using a video from 'The Last of Us,' students deconstruct jokes, learn homophones, analyze cultural nuances, and create their own puns for practical English communication.
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C2
Business
General
Grammar
Executive coaching and leadership development
Master executive coaching with this C2 lesson. Covers advanced business vocabulary, grammar for emphasis (inversion), and practical communication skills. Activities include defining leadership, listening, reading, vocabulary matching, and a culminating role-play coaching session.
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C1
Lifestyle
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Intermittent fasting and other diets: Benefits and challenges
This C1 English lesson plan helps students discuss diets and healthy living, exploring intermittent fasting through engaging activities, vocabulary, and advanced grammar. It includes warm-up discussions, vocabulary tasks, a listening gap-fill, advanced comparisons, debate phrases
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Practical English
Lifestyle
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How to order: Bar and dining vocabulary
This downloadable PDF lesson helps C1 students learn practical vocabulary and phrases for ordering drinks in a bar or pub. Activities include vocabulary, video comprehension, grammar practice for specific requests, and role-play, building confidence for social English.
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