Welcome to TeachingEnglish

Whether you’re planning lessons, developing new classroom strategies or advancing your career as an English language professional, you’ll find practical resources and professional development opportunities here.

TeachingEnglish supports inclusive, high-quality English teaching, learning and assessment for everyone.

We offer free training and teaching resources for English teachers and teacher educators. Through our courses, live webinars, lesson plans, articles, videos and online communities, you can:

build your classroom confidence and expertise
connect with colleagues around the world to share tips, challenges and inspiration
learn from talented English language teaching practitioners worldwide
stay up to date with the latest approaches and research.

Join the world’s largest online English teaching community and take the next step in your professional development.

Webinars

Don’t miss our next expert-led webinars, packed full of practical tips and strategies for your classroom. Attendance certificate included.

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Creating learner-centred language classrooms – webinars

Join us on 21 August 2026 for two webinars on moving from teacher-led instruction to active learner engagement.

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How to use AI to support reflection and autonomy in teacher education – webinars

Join us on Wednesday 19 August 2026 for a webinar exploring how AI can be integrated into teacher education to support reflective and autonomous learning.

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Lesson plans

Discover our latest lesson plans and topical classroom resources for primary, secondary and adult English learners.

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Responsible tourism: Planning a sustainable holiday

This lesson guides learners through analysing different types of holidays, and their environmental and social impact, before they collaboratively design a sustainable holiday.

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Investigating insects – part 1

In this lesson, learners will discover the names of insects that they find in their outdoor surroundings and think about how they can be categorised according to their different characteristics.

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Investigating insects – part 2

In this lesson, learners will review the names of the insects they learned in part 1 of this lesson and describe their characteristics in more detail to create fact-file posters about each one.

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Courses

Find free training courses open for enrolment now, all with a completion certificate. Each course includes a self-study workbook and access to our Facebook community, where you can get guidance from our expert tutors and other teachers.

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TeachingEnglish: Communicative tasks

Create meaningful, communicative tasks that promote learner autonomy and purposeful language use. This new course is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.

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TeachingEnglish: Understanding language systems

Develop your understanding of functional language and grammar and learn how to apply this knowledge to your teaching through reflection, analysis and effective presentation of use and form. Understanding language systems is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.

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Teaching English in primary

Discover how primary children learn and apply this understanding to your classroom practice. Explore the role of assessment in the primary classroom and learn engaging, age-appropriate strategies for learner evaluation. Teaching English in primary is open now – enrol until 23 September 2026.