These topics are trending now and your adult and young adult students want to learn how to talk about them.
In the News
Engage and challenge your intermediate and advanced level students with learning based and interesting current events.
Let’s Go Places
Encourage students to talk about their experiences and share their opinions about interesting and practical situations.
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ESL, TEFL, and English teaching material for your Traditional or Online adult and young adult English conversation language classes. Student handouts, worksheets, lesson plans, printables, and classroom activities.
Your students want to learn about different cultures, travel, and business as well as discuss real issues affecting them now.
Encourage your students to practice English with communicative activities such as role plays, discussions, and conversations about topics that are essential for them. Our ‘In the News’ series covers topics with international, political, environmental, and lifestyle themes.
Short lessons can be used as a lesson fillers, quick lessons, or homework. Longer lessons typically take 50 to 60 minutes to teach, but don’t worry, the lesson teaching notes offer teaching tips and instructions on how to teach each handout. Of course there is also an answer key – we’ve got you covered!
Every handout and worksheet includes detailed Teaching Notes.
The Teaching Notes include tips, techniques, and methods for teaching the range of activities used in our handouts as well as the answers for questions and activities. Read them before you teach your class and be confident teaching the material covered. A Student Copy without Teaching Notes is also provided so you can use our handouts to teach in your Online Classes.
Our handout, lesson plan, and activity library is growing and improving everyday!
Feedback from our teachers and subscribers help us to improve our handouts and lesson teaching notes. Older handouts get updated and the teaching notes improved to reflect suggestions from our teachers, therefore you should check the ‘update date’ of handouts and worksheets you use regularly to make sure you are teaching the latest version.
Students are introduced to and review English grammar.
Grammar is taught using fun 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!
BusinessClass Essentials
English Verb Tense Chart 3
Grammar
A1, A2, A2+, B1
1 Page
Any
Daily Life
Used to or Be used to
Grammar
Free Access
A2+, B1
2 Pages
60 mins
Travel
Relative Clauses
Grammar
A2, A2+, B1
2 Pages
60 mins
Daily LifePeople and Places
Online Dating
Grammar, Reading
B1, B2, C1
2 Pages
60 mins
What are you wearing?
Asking questions, Grammar, Listening, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
60 mins
Food and Restaurants
Describing Food
Conversation, Vocabulary
A1, A2
2 Pages
60 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Write about your Experiences
Asking questions, Reading
B1
2 Pages
90 mins
Daily Life
Phrasal Verbs using Run
Vocabulary
A2, A2+
1 Page
30 mins
Daily Life
Talking about your Interests
Reading
Free Access
A2, A2+, B1
2 Pages
60 mins
Daily Life
Two Question Types
Asking questions, Conversation, Grammar
A1, A2
2 Pages
60 mins
Daily Life
I Take the Train to Work
Grammar, Vocabulary
A2
2 Pages
60 mins
BusinessTravel
Can I book a room?
Asking questions, Conversation, Grammar
A2, A2+
2 Pages
60 mins
In the News
Current Events series with Audio.
‘In the News’ is our popular and comprehensive ESL and TEFL current events series that covers topics from around the world, features audio, and is included in a Full Access membership. These topics are trending now and your adult and young adult students want to learn how to talk about them.
‘In the News’ English lesson handouts focus on world politics, science, business, historical events, extreme weather, lifestyle, technology, famous people and places, and more.
Each ‘In the News’ handout has 3 pages of lesson material aimed at Upper-Intermediate: B2 to Advanced: C1 and C1 level English learners. The 1st and 2nd pages of the handout can be completed in a 60-minute class and the 3rd page can be completed in a longer class or given to students to complete in their own time; have students present their opinions and ideas at the beginning of their next class.
Each ‘In the News’ current events handout features an audio track so your students can practice listening to native English speakers.
The listening file is available for you to play on our site or download to use in your classroom.
EnvironmentHealthTravel
Meatless Meat Products Gaining Popularity
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
Culture
Archaeologists find 100 ancient Egyptian coffins
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
CultureHealthTechnology
COVID-19 is Changing the English Language
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
Free Access
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
CultureLifestyle
Paternity Leave in Japan
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
Lifestyle
Forrest Fenn’s Hidden Treasure Found
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
Free Access
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
Technology
Scientists strap a tiny camera to a beetle
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
EnvironmentHealthTravel
All insect restaurant open for business
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
CultureLifestyle
Covid-19 Causing Young People to Return Home
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
TechnologyLifestyle
Teleworking – Working from Home
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
Environment
Devastating Wildfires
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
HealthLifestyle
Coronavirus (COVID-19): What should you do?
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
Free Access
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
EnvironmentPolitics
Greta Thunberg Calls for Climate Strike
Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
B2, C1
3 Pages
90 mins
Let’s Go Places
Conversation through Pictures.
‘Let’s Go Places’ is a series of communicative lesson plans that encourage your ESL students to talk about their experiences and share their opinions about interesting and practical situations. Students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency with engaging and challenging activities. ‘Let’s Go Places’ is included in your Full Access membership.
Your students talk about the supermarket, the train station, the airport, a coffee shop, weather, sports, and more!
Help your students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency by guiding them through a series of activities that challenge and engage them. Have one of these on hand and we’ve got you covered.
‘Let’s Go Places’ introduces interesting topics through pictures and encourages your students to ask and answer questions to start a conversation.
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!
Daily LifePeople and Places
Let’s Go to the Department Store
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
BusinessDaily LifeWork
Let’s Go to Work
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Let’s Go to the Zoo
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
Daily LifePeople and Places
Let’s Go to the Bank
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Let’s Go to the Airport
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
Free Access
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Let’s Go to Europe
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
Daily LifeSeasonal
Let’s Go Outside
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
Food and RestaurantsTravel
Let’s Go to a Restaurant
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
Daily LifePeople and Places
Let’s Go to the Movies
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
People and PlacesTravel
Let’s Go to a Hotel
Asking questions, Conversation, Vocabulary
A2, A2+
2 Pages
90 mins
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English teacher in Japan
I teach English at a few Japanese companies around Nagoya in Japan and use ESL Lesson Handouts to give my classes a break from our business text book. Also, I use worksheets to build on grammar we study in the textbook.
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Business English teacher
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Online and Classroom Teacher
I teach English to medium-sized classes at community centers and businesses in my city. My students are a mix of men and women of all ages. We use your current event handouts in the last week of every month and your grammar handouts to compliment our classroom textbook.
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Freelance English Instructor
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Living and working in Japan for a year
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Private English Teacher
I have been using esllessonhandouts.com for a few months now and check every weekend for new current events lessons.
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English teacher in Japan
I am an English teaching 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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