Essential UK provides lesson plans, materials, activities and useful links based on contemporary United Kingdom topics and issues:
Theme: Bonfire Night in the UK Lexical area: Festivals
Theme: Special days and greeting cards
Theme: Easter Lexical area: Easter vocabulary
Theme: Red Nose Day - a bi-annual fundraising event in the UK
Theme: The British music industry awards Lexical area: Music and prizes Instructions for language assistants in Italics
Theme: Valentine's Day Lexical area: Love, dating and romance
Theme: Record charts, the Christmas singles chart, the taste in music at Christmas. Lexical area: Types of music, types of song
Theme: New Year traditions and New Year resolutions. Reviewing the year, talking about past events, talking about intentions.
Theme: Halloween Lexical area: Superstition Cross curricular links: Personal and social education Introduction
