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A Creative ESL Lesson Plan That Brings Stories—and Students—to Life Looking for a lesson that sparks imagination, inspires discussion, and gets your students truly talking? “Fairy Tales” is a ready-to-use, high-impact ESL lesson plan designed for B1+ learners that transforms your classroom into a world of magic, mystery, and meaningful conversation. Using the captivating short film Croaked, students dive into the world of fairy tales and folk stories while developing their speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills. But this isn’t just a watch-and-talk lesson—your students will retell stories, argue in a mock trial, debate the role of media, and even create their own modern fairy tale. Why teachers love it: Zero prep – Just open, play, and teach Flexible – Works as a one-off lesson or part of a broader storytelling unit Engaging – Perfect for mixed-ability groups who need a break from the coursebook Why students love it: It’s fun, surprising, and different It gives them a real reason to speak It connects English to their own ideas and creativity Give your students a lesson they’ll remember—and talk about long after the bell rings. Includes video link, lesson procedures, discussion tasks, role play ideas, and a creative project.

One Small Step – An Inspiring ESL Lesson on Dreams, Ambition & Gender Equality Level: B1+ Lesson Length: 60–75 minutes Themes: Ambition, Gender Bias, Overcoming Obstacles What do your students dream of becoming? This powerful, ready-to-use lesson plan invites learners to reflect on their childhood ambitions while exploring real-world issues of gender discrimination and resilience. Centred around the award-winning animated short film One Small Step, this lesson sparks meaningful conversations, builds critical thinking, and develops key language skills. Learning Outcomes By the end of the lesson, students will: Reflect on personal dreams and ambitions Discuss challenges women face in STEM careers Explore the impact of gender bias in the workplace Develop speaking fluency and vocabulary related to ambition and equality What’s Included? A complete, step-by-step lesson plan Pre-watching and post-watching activities Discussion prompts and critical thinking tasks Extension ideas and optional homework Links to the video and visual materials Why This Lesson Works One Small Step resonates emotionally with learners while providing rich material for classroom discussion. It’s perfect for promoting inclusivity, motivation, and social awareness—while reinforcing English language skills in a meaningful context. Ideal For: Teen and adult ESL learners at B1+ level Teachers looking for high-interest, real-world content Classes focused on diversity, gender issues, or career aspirations Inspire your students to dream big—and talk about it in English. Download the lesson now and take one small step toward deeper learning. You will get a PDF (1MB) file

Inspire your students with a lesson that celebrates kindness, difference, and being your true self. In this engaging and thought-provoking ESL lesson, your students will explore the story of the “Real Santa” through the lens of diversity, difference, and what it means to be truly powerful. Using a short video as a springboard, learners reflect on the qualities of superheroes, discuss what makes each person unique, and think critically about inclusion and empathy. Designed for B1+ learners, the lesson develops speaking fluency and listening skills while encouraging meaningful classroom conversations. This lesson helps your students: Compare and contrast familiar superheroes with the story of Santa Claus Build vocabulary around identity, difference, and powers Reflect on what makes them unique and why diversity matters Explore social themes in an accessible, age-appropriate way What’s included: A ready-to-use, step-by-step lesson plan Video link + guided viewing questions Pre- and post-watching discussion tasks Critical thinking prompts A digital presentation This lesson develops speaking and listening skills while promoting empathy and respect for diversity. It is ideal for teachers looking to integrate values-based education into their English lessons in a creative and accessible way.

Unlock the Power of AI for Your Professional Growth Are you an English language teacher or teacher educator looking for innovative ways to enhance your skills, save time, and develop professionally? The Manual of AI-Mediated Autonomous Teacher Development is your ultimate guide to using AI as a collaborative partner in your teaching journey. Written by Nik Peachey, an award-winning educator and expert in educational technology, this book takes you beyond generic AI-generated materials. Instead, it introduces collaborative prompting - a groundbreaking approach to professional growth through collaborative prompting - a method that transforms AI from a simple tool into an active mentor, guide, and thinking partner. What’s Inside? Hands-on AI prompts that walk you through action research, reflection, grammar analysis, needs assessments, research writing, and more than 30 other developmental tasks. Step-by-step guides to help you use AI as a reflective tool, boosting your metacognitive awareness and teaching effectiveness. Practical applications for integrating AI into your daily teaching practice, without relying on generic AI-generated content. A focus on lifelong learning, ensuring that you continuously develop as a teacher while keeping up with the latest trends in education technology. Real-world teaching scenarios that demonstrate how AI can support you in the classroom, from tackling student challenges to designing innovative learning experiences. Designed for both experienced and novice teachers, this book empowers you to take control of your own development while gaining deeper insights into your teaching practice. Whether you want to refine your methods, explore new pedagogical approaches, or simply make AI a meaningful part of your professional journey, this hands-on, practical guide will help you elevate your teaching to the next level. Note: All of the prompts included in the book will function on free AI platform subscriptions.

Help your students boost their productivity and their English skills with this thought-provoking lesson on procrastination! Using a vibrant, easy-to-follow infographic, learners reflect on their own habits, explore 15 practical tips to stay on task, and engage in meaningful discussions that build critical thinking and fluency. Perfect for Business English or life skills-focused classes, this ready-to-teach lesson brings language to life with real-world relevance and high learner engagement. No prep required Ideal for adult and young adult learners Builds speaking, reading, and reflection skills Flexible for classroom or online teaching Get your students thinking, talking, and taking action—one tip at a time! Includes answer key and digital presentation.

Spark your students’ creativity and problem-solving skills with this engaging, real-world lesson on turning sea water into drinking water! Using a clear, visually striking infographic, learners explore how to build a simple survival device from everyday items, while developing vocabulary, reading skills, and environmental awareness. Packed with critical thinking prompts and meaningful discussions, this ready-to-teach lesson is perfect for life skills, CLIL, or general English classes.

Spark lively discussions and critical thinking in your B1+ ESL classroom with this engaging 60-minute lesson on city life and global living standards. Using an eye-catching infographic and thought-provoking questions, students explore what makes a city liveable, compare top-ranked cities, and express their personal preferences. Perfect for speaking and reading practice, this ready-to-use lesson also builds essential vocabulary and encourages deeper reflection on quality of life, urban vs. rural living, and cultural perspectives. Ideal for teachers who want to combine language learning with real-world relevance.

Boost Wellbeing and Language Skills with “Cheer Up” – A Ready-to-Use Lesson Plan Help your students explore emotions, build empathy, and develop essential communication skills with Cheer Up – an engaging, ready-to-teach 60 minute lesson plan focused on wellbeing and emotional expression. Designed for B1+ -level learners, this practical, five-task lesson uses real-world topics and visuals to spark meaningful discussion, develop digital literacy, and encourage critical thinking.

This book has been designed to act as a practical resource that should help you to get a better understanding of the kinds of AI tools that are available and how to use them in the English language classroom. The book does this through a series of chapters focusing on tools for teachers, tools for students and a collection of background reading. All of the tools and reading texts in this book have tasks to accompany them that will help you orientate yourself to the materials and think more deeply and actively about how they can be used. These tasks have been adapted from the online course version of the book, in which participants can share opinions, reflections and materials with each other. I would encourage you to do the same even if you aren’t part of the course. Keep a journal and make notes as you work through the book and try the tasks. Find another colleague you can talk to about the tasks and the example plans Seek out opportunities to interact with and discuss what you are learning with other teachers and with your students. Use what you are learning to run formal or informal development sessions for other teachers. The book also includes a link to download a free copy of The Digital Toolbox. The Digital Toolbox The Digital Toolbox is regularly updated, and should help to keep you up to date with new developments and apps that are becoming available. I hope you enjoy the book.

With the advent of ‘Instapoetry’ on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, there seems to be a whole new generation open to creating, publishing and enjoying poetry. This lesson explores the motivation of a woman who writes poetry and encourages students to share their views of poetry. They also choose a poem to listen to and create a profile for an imaginary poet. Aims: To develop students' appreciation of poets and poetry. Materials: Teachers' guide (PDF) Digital presentation Dictation activity Poet profiles activity Reflection activity

This book has been designed to act as a practical resource that should help you to get a better understanding of the kinds of AI tools that are available and how to use them in the English language classroom. The book does this through a series of chapters focusing on tools for teachers, tools for students and a collection of background reading. All of the tools and reading texts in this book have tasks to accompany them that will help you orientate yourself to the materials and think more deeply and actively about how they can be used. These tasks have been adapted from the online course version of the book, in which participants can share opinions, reflections and materials with each other. I would encourage you to do the same even if you aren’t part of the course. Keep a journal and make notes as you work through the book and try the tasks. Find another colleague you can talk to about the tasks and the example plans Seek out opportunities to interact with and discuss what you are learning with other teachers and with your students. Use what you are learning to run formal or informal development sessions for other teachers. The book also includes a link to download a free copy of The Digital Toolbox. The Digital Toolbox is regularly updated, and should help to keep you up to date with new developments and apps that are becoming available. I hope you enjoy the book.

Get your students speaking and developing their listening and conversation skills with this series of 10 engaging lessons for the remote, face to face or hybrid classroom. Each of the 10 units contains around 120 mins of learning materials. Level: A2/B1 and higher Topics Unit 1 - Study skills and habits Unit 2 - Mobile phone and social media use Unit 3 - Dream homes and houses Unit 4 - Holidays and travel Unit 5 - Music and playing an instrument Unit 6 - Shopping and clothes styles Unit 7 - Sport and exercise Unit 8 - Films and going to the cinema Unit 9 - Interviews and talking about ourselves Unit 10 - Describing products and making presentations The book also includes a digital workbook for students that they can use on their mobile phone to access the classroom materials, make notes and do dome of the additional interactive tasks.

This book is a wonderful collection of 20 stories from teachers around the world. Each one describes how they try to be genuine in their interactions with their students and how they try to model the practices they promote. The stories come from teachers of all levels, ages and grades. The book displays the wide range of diversity that exists in both the classrooms and the way teachers approach their profession around the world. Edited by Adelina binte Asmawi George M Jacobs Guo Qingli Willy A Renandya Foreword by Alan Maley

When I first started hearing and reading about ChatGPT and all the marvellous things it could do, I was very excited, but my first impressions weren’t that great. Good, but not great. I found it frustrating. I was reading articles about all the marvellous things it could do, but when I tried to get ChatGPT to do those things for me, the results were a bit disappointing. Perhaps you’ve had a similar experience. The reality is that in order to get the best from ChatGPT, you have to learn to understand a little bit about it, the way it thinks and the way it understands language. I soon found that the more I studied this, the better the results were and the more things it would do for me. What I’ll be sharing in this book are some of the ideas and insights I’ve developed from my time working with it. Along with the prompts and prompt templates, you can use to get the same or better results for your students. Contents Chapter 1 - An introduction to ChatGPT where we look at some of the basics such as parts of the interface, what they do and how ChatGPT works. Chapter 2 - We look at what ChatGPT can do to help us prepare engaging materials and how students can interact with ChatGPT. This section will focus on exploiting ChatGPT in the classroom and for homework activities. This includes example materials, ideas and lesson plans that you can try along with the prompts that I used to create the materials. Chapter 3 - We look at some of the ways you can learn more about teaching and ways that you can use ChatGPT to make your workload a little easier to deal with, especially lesson planning and language research. Chapter 4 - We look at a collection of tips for helping you construct prompts. Prompts enable you to get responses from ChatGPT and the better your prompt writing is the better the results you will get. Chapter 5 - We look at some examples of other AI tools that can be used alongside ChatGPT to do various tasks like creating images, audio and video, as well as creating quizzes, presentations and lesson plans. Chapter 6 - We look at some of the various different issues and controversies that ChatGPT raises. 256 pages

In this lesson about money students will explore cryptocurrency, one of the most fascinating and poorly understood elements of digitalisation that could soon impact all of our lives. They will exchange their knowledge, views and experiences of money and read and research cryptocurrencies and the mysterious creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto and all of this while developing their English, communication skills and digital literacies. Aims: To develop students’ knowledge and ability to talk about and understand cryptocurrencies. Level: Intermediate + (B1- C2) Materials: Teachers’ Guide - (PDF) Digital presentation: Demonstration Copy

This book has been designed as a teachers’ guide to the use of the digital and interactive materials from the second 10 units of the Conversation & Listening series. The book contains the step-by-step instructions outlining how to use the materials and presentations and implement the activities in each stage of the lesson units. The Conversation & Listening series was designed to help and encourage young adult English language students (A2/B1 or higher) to engage in conversation and interaction around a range of common topics and in a range of situations that will be of interest to them. Each unit contains materials for 90 -120 mins contact time and an additional 60+ mins interactive self-study materials. Unit Topics A Good Book - To enable students to discuss different types of books. A Night Out - To enable students to talk about different places they like to go in the evening. My Goals - To enable students to talk about their goals in life and their attitudes to achieving their goals. My Sense of Humour - To enable students to discuss their sense of humour and describe different types of humour. The Dancer - To enable students to share their opinions and experiences of dance. The Gamer - To enable students to discuss their experiences of a range of issues around video games. The News - To develop students’ abilities to think more critically about news and how they access it. The Story - To develop students’ abilities to tell stories and anecdotes. The Tattoo - To enable students to talk about body art, how it is viewed in different cultures and why people have tattoos. The Vegan - To develop students’ ability to discuss the types of food they like and their attitudes to eating meat.

Techniques, Exercise and Activities for the Creative Language Classroom This book is for any language teacher who is interested in developing their own and their students’ creative skills while teaching languages. The book is in two sections. -: The first part looks at a range of teaching techniques that you can use in any lesson to help develop your students’ creativity. It also includes some suggestions and easy exercises for applying these in the classroom. -: The second part is a collection of 30 structured activities. These include step by step instructions as well as example digital materials that you can use in the classroom. The example materials have been designed so that you can use them on any digital device with an internet connection. Example digital presentation: Interview Images I hope you and your students will find this book an enjoyable and useful accompaniment for your everyday teaching.

This lesson plan explores the topic of crime and motivation. It uses images and a crime story to develop students’ vocabulary around the topic of crime. It also helps to develop their understanding of narrative tenses. Most importantly, the lesson pushes students to think more critically about the information they are being told and to think about how they can cross-check information. At the end of the lesson, students are also encouraged to do research in preparation for a debate about various issues related to crime and punishment. This lesson also has an interactive version of the materials that teachers can use with a data-projector or interactive whiteboard. The students can also follow the lesson and interact with the materials using a tablet, mobile phone or computer.

This lesson is based on a single image of a girl standing alone at night by a shop window. Her facial expression is ambiguous and it’s not clear why she is there. The lesson includes a variety of discussion and conversation tasks that you can use to get students thinking and talking about why she is there and how she feels. These are followed by language focus tasks and some more creative tasks. Finally, there are some suggestions for digital research and creation follow-up tasks. It’s not necessary to use all of the tasks in the plan, you can choose to use any of the tasks individually or change the order of the tasks depending on the approach you want to take and the level of your students.

‘Okay Goldilocks. How do you like it?’ This lesson is based on a single image of a bear lying in bed surrounded by books. The lesson includes a variety of discussion and conversation tasks that you can use to get students thinking and talking about the image. These are followed by language focus tasks and some more creative tasks. Finally, there are some suggestions for digital research and creation follow-up tasks. It’s not necessary to use all of the tasks in the plan, you can choose to use any of the tasks individually or change the order of the tasks depending on the approach you want to take and the level of your students.