Modern TV today is just rubbish, isn’t it? Just the same kind of shows repeated again and again. Why do TV companies only show these kinds of shows? Why not show something different? This is a lesson plan all about television. Today’s students probably watch TV shows via their smartphones, but you can still use …
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First, download the exercise below. It comes in PDF format — easy for printing and handing out to students in the class. ASK ME ANYTHING! Then get each student to write their name on the top of the list. Next, get each student to fill in ONE question on each student’s question sheet. …
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This is a guest post from Angelo Castelda. Angelo is a freelance writer from Asia. Besides writing, he also spends his time traveling and learning about diverse cultures, which opened his heart more to learning and imparting knowledge about ESL. Online learning is a learning method that uses the internet in teaching any subject …
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There is an organisation, started in America, called Alcoholics Anonymous. This is for men and women to go and talk about being addicted to alcohol and the effect it has had on their lives. It has helped many people to recover and live productive and healthy lives. This is a lesson plan about AA. For …
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Hundreds of young women — and men — are having lip fillers these days. This is an operation to make the lips look fuller and sexier. But this procedure sometimes fails. This is a lesson plan about cosmetic surgery — and what happens if it goes wrong. For younger students, this could be a highly …
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Many cities around the world have organised street crime. Run by professional gangs who take advantage of the large number of people and the anonymity the city provides. In this lesson, we are looking at street crime and the highly organised gangs that operate in big cities. This is a great lesson plan to help …
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This is a guest post from Jessica Robinson. You can find more of Jessica’s writing at The Speaking Polymath. Here, she introduces some fantastic methods for classroom management. Many thanks, Jessica! Every classroom has some noisy and disruptive students. Classroom management is essentially the process of preventing disruptive behaviors from students so that …
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Do women in your country breastfeed their babies in public? In many Western countries, young mothers do this. Most people think nothing of it, but some people believe they should do this in private, not out in the open for all people to see. In this lesson plan, you can discuss the idea of breastfeeding …
If you could choose to die, would you do it? There are clinics in some parts of the world that help people die. This is for people with incurable diseases or other very serious conditions. But is it the right thing to do? This is an extremely sensitive subject to discuss in the classroom — …
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People work too hard. They often work at the weekends and do overtime or they take work home and do it there. It never used to be like this. So why is it happening now? And what are the results of it? This lesson plan is about working all the time. It could be useful …
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