Essential UK provides lesson plans, materials, activities and useful links based on contemporary United Kingdom topics and issues:
Theme: Mobile phones Lexical area: Phone language
Theme: Cooking and food trends in the UKLexical area: Food and kitchen utensilsCross curricular links: Media studies, home economics
Theme: child prodigies, education, home schoolingLexical area: school subjects, university
Age range: 13 - adultTheme: Smoking and smoking bans.Lexical area: Smoking, health.Cross curricular links: Health awa
Theme: The British music industry awardsLexical area: Music and prizes
Theme: Slang, youth culture, informal language, multicultural societyLexical area: language, song lyrics, young people
Theme: GraffitiLexical area: art, vandalism, museums
Theme: MI6Lexical area: spying, personal information, codes
Theme: Bonfire Night in the UK Lexical area: Festivals
Theme: Round-the-world travellers, record breakersLexical area: travel, running, sailing, cycling