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Your students want to learn about different cultures, travel, business, and discuss real issues affecting them now.
Encourage your students to build English fluency with communicative activities such as role-plays, discussions, and conversations about topics that are essential for them.
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Students are introduced to and review English grammar.
Grammar is taught using fun, communicative activities, matching and gap fill activities as well as scripted conversations and role-plays. Verb tenses, prepositions, conditionals, countable and uncountable nouns, comparatives and superlatives, articles, modals for advice, permission and obligation, and much more!
Changing an Appointment
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content_copy2 pages
timer60 mins
BusinessDaily Life
Making an appointment might be an easy task but postponing or changing it is more challenging. This handout teaches useful expressions that can be used when changing an appointment by telephone. The language used…
Bruce’s Daily Routine
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content_copy2 pages
timer60 mins
Daily Life
handymanAsking and answering questions
Help your students gain confidence asking and answering questions in the present tense about daily routines. This handout focuses on the third person and constructing object questions using the auxiliary verb ‘do’.
Phrasal Verbs using Put
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content_copy1 page
timer30 mins
Daily Life
Phrasal verbs are verbs paired with one or two prepositions and have special meaning. Your students need to read and hear phrasal verbs in context to become familiar with them and understand their correct…
Four Ways to Talk about the Future
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content_copy4 pages
timer90 mins
Daily LifeTravelWork
handymanTalking about the future
Check students’ understanding of talking about the future by reviewing four future forms: will/won’t, be going to, present continuous, and present simple. Students practice using the different ways to talk about schedules and timetables,…
It Must be Halloween
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content_copy3 pages
timer120 mins
Seasonal
handymanDrawing conclusions, Speculating
Students focus on the use of modal verbs: must, may, might, could, and can’t and how to use them to speculate about things and make deductions. Students are also introduced to and practice using…
Introducing your Company
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content_copy3 pages
timer120 mins
BusinessWork
handymanDescribing people, places, and things, Explaining
Students practice introducing their company/business to visitors, new suppliers, or clients. This handout introduces useful business phrases used to ask and talk clearly and concisely about what a company does. A vocabulary activity profiles…
Relative Clauses
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content_copy3 pages
timer60 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Students are introduced to relative clauses and how to identify which pronouns are used to discuss people and things. Students practice and will be able to connect two different sentences using relative pronouns.
Our Current Events series covers news from around the world and includes audio.
These topics are trending now and your adult and young adult ESL students want to learn how to talk about them. Each ‘In the News’ Handout has 2 or 3 pages of lesson material aimed at Elementary: A2 to Advanced: C2 English learners. Each ‘In the News’ current events Handout features an audio track so your students can practice listening to native English speakers.
Coronavirus Causes Panic Buying
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content_copy3 pages
timer90 mins
HealthLifestyle
Many countries around the world are currently experiencing ‘panic buying’ because of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Some badly-affected countries have recommended or demanded that people stay-at-home leading to people stockpiling supplies of…
Paternity Leave in Japan
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content_copy3 pages
timer90 mins
CultureLifestyle
Although Japan is a world-leader when it comes to the provision of paternity leave, (a very generous one year), in reality only 6 percent of eligible fathers took child care leave. Furthermore, over 70…
Teleworking – Working from Home
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content_copy3 pages
timer90 mins
TechnologyLifestyle
Teleworking is the activity of working from home while maintaining contact with your office by email, telephone, or video calls. Around the world, about 20 per cent of workers telework frequently and about 1…
Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
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content_copy3 pages
timer90 mins
Health
According to the World Health Organization, as of January 6th 2021, 235 candidate COVID-19 vaccines have been developed worldwide with 63 of them in clinical trials in countries including Germany, China, Russia, Britain, and…
Caffeine isn’t good at Fighting Sleep Deprivation
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content_copy2 - 3 pages
timer90 - 120 mins
HealthLifestyle
Researchers assessed how effective caffeine was in counteracting the negative effects of sleep deprivation on cognition. As it turns out, caffeine can only get you so far.
K-Pop’s BTS Conquers the US Billboard Charts
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content_copy3 pages
timer90 mins
Culture
BTS has achieved its first No. 1 “Dynamite” on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, writing a new chapter in K-pop history as the first Korean band to do so. After having topped the…
Help your students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency by guiding them through a series of activities that challenge and engage them.
Sit back and watch your students using English with enthusiasm. This English series uses original high-quality color pictures that look great and your students will appreciate that, but don’t worry, they look great in black and white as well! Have one of these on hand and we’ve got you covered.
Let’s Go to the Airport
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about airports and traveling. Example Questions in this Handout Where can travelers catch a bus or taxi? Which airline is the elderly couple flying with? What is the maximum weight for a carry-on…
Let’s Go Outside
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
Daily LifeSeasonal
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about seasons, activities, and weather. Example Questions in this Handout What seasons can you see in the pictures? Which months are these seasons in your country? What is the couple doing in spring?
Let’s Go to Work
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
BusinessDaily LifeWork
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about working and your work week. Example Questions in this Handout What do you do on public transportation? Do you have to attend a lot of meetings for your job? How old were…
Let’s Go to the Department Store
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
Daily LifePeople and Places
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about shopping at a department store. Example Questions in this Handout What is the woman with the child thinking about? What is on sale in the Ladies Wear department? How do you feel…
Let’s Go to the Movies
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
Daily LifePeople and Places
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about movies and movie theaters. Example Questions in this Handout How much does a ticket for a 64 year old person cost? What is the woman carrying on a tray? How much does…
Let’s Go to a Museum
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about museums, art, and exhibitions. Example Questions in this Handout Who are some famous artists in your country? What kind of art do they do? Most museums don’t allow recording devices. Do you…
Let’s Go to the Park
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content_copy2 pages
timer90 mins
People and Places
handymanAsking and answering questions
Talking about parks and outdoor leisure activities. Example Questions in this Handout What was your favorite thing to do in the park when you were a child? Have parks changed since you were young?…
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I am an English teacher based in Hong Kong. My students are mostly young company workers who need English in their jobs. We use a popular business English textbook but it’s nice to have worksheets that use English grammar in other ways. My students enjoy the opportunity to speak English.
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English teacher in Japan
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English teacher in Japan
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