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A letter from God to man

Here is a quick writing lesson idea which I recently put together. I received some really good feedback from my students about it so I thought it was only fair to share it with you. The lesson was originally designed for my ILEC (International Legal English Cert) students and the task rubric takes the formContinue reading “A letter from God to man”

Work-life balance – A business class idea

This lesson idea is based around a funny and thought provoking TED talk by Nigel Marsh. The talk is titled; How to make work-life balance work. I have used the class with C1.3 and Proficiency students and each time the talk prompts different conversations within my groups, leading to good language work and exposure toContinue reading “Work-life balance – A business class idea”

Strapped for cash

This is a very quick post about a lesson I did a few times today and it worked really well. It is aimed at C1 level students and above and is based around an article from the BBC, which you can find here: Debt campaigners tear up student loans The article is about a group ofContinue reading “Strapped for cash”

The seven deadly digital sins

This lesson is based around a wonderful set of videos made by the National film board of Canada and the Guardian, and can be found here; http://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2014/jun/06/-sp-digital-deadly-sins It features artists such as Billy Bragg (musician), Josie Long (Comedian), Bill Bailey (Comedian) and Jon Ronson (writer/journalist), amongst others. Each of these people talks about a deadlyContinue reading “The seven deadly digital sins”

Eat my goal!

This lesson idea is inspired and directly linked to a lesson I used from the excellent website, Designer lessons, which is put together by George Chilton and Neil McMillan. Here is the link to the website – http://designerlessons.org/ The lesson that inspired this post is called ‘Make it count’ and the link for it is here – http://designerlessons.org/2012/06/11/esl-lesson-planmake-it-count/Continue reading “Eat my goal!”

Spend, spend, spend!

This is a lesson idea that I have been trialling with a couple of my classes and it went so well that I thought it was only fair to share it. The lesson is based around an interactive computer game called ‘Spent’ http://playspent.org/ The site was first brought to my attention by Graham Stanley (@grahamstanley), who talkedContinue reading “Spend, spend, spend!”