Secondary lesson plans - Pre-intermediate A2

Find a range of lesson plans to use with teenage learners at pre-intermediate level. All of our lessons are designed around themes that are engaging and relevant to secondary learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their English language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways. Written by young learner experts from around the world, our lesson plans are easy to use and aim to give your students the skills and confidence they need to enjoy learning English.

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After Lunch (lower level)

After Lunch is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills. The focus of this lesson is on use of adjectives, improving listening skills and speaking about local festivals.

Stay safe on social media

In June 2013, the British Council's Social Media Team Child Protection team worked with CEOP to develop 5 Golden Rules to help parents and carers keep their children safe on social media. As this was a great success and was well appreciated, we would now like to continue this work. The aim of this lesson is to sensitise teenage students to the risks of social media and to raise their awareness of how to stay safe when using it.

Monthly lesson plan

Monthly lesson plan - A tour of London

This lesson plan for teachers of teenage students at level A2 practises vocabulary of famous places in London. Students listen to a recording and complete a speaking activity.

Stairway to nowhere (lower level)

Stairway to nowhere is a complete set of teaching resources designed around an interesting and unusual photograph with activities to activate your students' higher level critical thinking skills.

This pack looks at the topics of day trips and unexplained sights. The focus is on developing students' reading skills and listening for specific information.

Class journals

This lesson plan for teachers of teenage and adult students at level A2 is about class journals. Students will be introduced to class journals.

Christmas

Theme: Christmas
Lexical area: Christmas vocabulary

Reading house

Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste.
Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration
Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art

Card games

What card games do you know? Do you like playing games? In this lesson, students read about how to play a card game called ‘Snap’. They practise expressions for playing games and then have the chance to write instructions for a game. You need at least one pack of playing cards for this lesson.

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