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EFL / ESOL: B1+ 60-90 minutes of lesson time Reading Skills: Intensive reading of 8 quotations by famous people for understanding and paraphrase Vocabulary Building: Language of personal qualities and values Speaking Skills: Paraphrasing, exemplifying, comparing and expressing opinions Cognitive Skills: Ranking, evaluating personal values and qualities

This resource contains an editable, 50-question interactive summer quiz with a London-based theme for educational trips and study tours. It is suitable for a wide range of student groups, including: native-speaker school students, EFL students on study tours and adult ESOL students with good reading skills, at least Entry 3 and above. Each question contains 3 multiple-choice answers with varying degrees of difficulty. There are 5 categories: Geography History Arts and Creative Industries Sport Science and Technology There are 3 suggested ways to run the quiz: As an interactive team ppt game As a small group board game As a team webquest game Game 2 requires printing of a full set of quiz cards and a large copy of a map of the London Underground for each group in addition to score sheets and an answer sheet. Game 3 requires 1 set of quiz cards divided between teams. It is suggested that you print off copies of score sheets and an answer sheet for each team for all games so that students can keep track of what questions have been asked and answers provided. These are provided as separate word documents. Copies of the London Underground map are freely available online.

An EFL / ESOL complete lesson. Level: B1 Intermediate Time: 90 minutes Aim: By the end of the lesson students will be able to name a range of music genres and express their musical preferences. Language Focus: Music genres Language to express likes and dislikes Neither, nor and so did / do I Distributives: All, both, neither, some, none of us Modifying adverbs: really, quite. The resources include: Worksheet 1: Musical Preferences Worksheet 2: Degrees of Feeling Complete lesson plan Ppt presentation

This resource is a vocabulary activity which focuses on the word “way” in the sense of: route, road, direction and distance, and the grammatical pattern: determiner | (+ adjective) | + way | + preposition | + noun phrase. The exercises teach a range of typical adjective and determiner collocations for this sense and grammatical pattern of the lexeme “way”. Activites include: a matching exercise gap fill exercises a dialogue role play a communication activity a dialogue writing activity The activities include both written and oral practice of the lexical items and related grammatical pattern.

A vocabulary activity for ESL learners of English in which they match a sentence containing a musical idiom with a suitable definition. This is an activity appropriate for advanced students working at CEFR Level C1 or above. The lexical items included in the exercise are as follows: Ring a bell Is/is not my forte Fit as a fiddle Strike the right note Face the music Strike a chord Play it by ear Blow your own trumpet Music to my ears Change your tune All that jazz A broken record

This is a vocabulary lesson for B1 Level ESL students, which builds on existing lexical knowledge related to music and musical events. It uses archive photographs of the Beatles [links to websites where the relevant images can be found are included on the final slide of the Ppt.] The vocabulary included on the mind map includes the following; a [ rock, jazz, R&B] band a solo artist/performer a singer an orchestra a music [festival, concert, gig, venue] a bar, pub, club musicians [a drummer, a guitarist, a pianist] musical instruments [a saxophone, a guitar, a double bass] give a live performance perform on stage a recording studio [record, produce, listen to] music a recording a record [vinyl] a compact disc / cd a hit single an album Beatles’ fans music lovers the audience Activities include: a picture stimulus activity [x2] a pronunciation activity “Hidden Beatle” a writing activity The lesson plan is also included.

A complete ESL lesson plan and set of resources to teach the names of musical instruments and a range of related lexical phrases at CEFR level B1. Also useful for ESOL and EAL classes. Vocabulary: Cello Drums Trumpet Tambourine Guitar Accordion Harp Double Bass Mandolin Saxophone Piano Flute Xylophone Clarinet Bagpipes Violin a[n] [woodwind, percussion, string, keyboard, electronic] instrument It [sounds] [looks] like … It’s similar to … Resources: Powerpoint presentation [+ musical audio excerpts] A vocabulary worksheet A complete lesson plan