Teaching resources

This lesson encourages an exploration of how the meaning of the word ‘tragedy’ has evolved since Shakespeare’s time. It provides students with an introduction to the features of Shakespearean tragedy, as awareness of these features will enhance students’ appreciation of Shakespeare’s own tragic plays.

Students will have the opportunity to find out more about Shakespeare’s private life and will role-play the main characters of his family in the discussion stage 

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to learn about some of Shakespeare’s best known characters and story lines in contemporary language which is tailored to suit their level. It will also raise students’ awareness of different ways of giving advice in English and provide practice at reading. 

This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at pre intermediate level explores the theme of TV programmes. Students will make a poster and develop speaking skills in the form of a role play.

This is an this integrated skills lesson, aimed at young learners with an English level of A2 and above to help them learn about World Book Day.

This lesson plan for teachers of teenage and adult students at level A2 and above is based on the theme of water shortage. Students will discuss the use of water and give advice on conservation.

This lesson is about a performance of Romeo and Juliet carried out entirely on Twitter, using 140-character messages from the characters in the play. (Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service where the user sends short messages, or tweets, of a maximum 140 characters). The lesson provides students with the opportunity to read a short newspaper-style text, focus on vocabulary and to write ‘conversations’ between the main characters using tweets (short messages).

In this lesson, learners practise and improve their creative writing skills as they work with a template to first write a love poem with clichés, then write a funny love poem. They work on vocabulary and also on rhyming. 

In this lesson, learners carry out group surveys about being environmentally friendly. They practise and improve their speaking skills, using present perfect to talk about recent actions.

In this lesson, learners practise and improve their writing and vocabulary skills as they read a film review and then write their own.

In this lesson, learners practise prepositions of place, speaking and listening to their partners as they describe and draw simple pictures.

In this lesson, learners practise and improve their speaking skills and fluency using the past simple as they have conversations about what they did yesterday.