EFL lessons and ideas by David Pickup
I know it’s a little late to be putting up a Christmas lesson plan, but I always prefer to post only lesson plans that I have used myself in class and I wouldn’t really try a Christmas lesson before the last week of term! In recent years there has been a spate of almost cinema-quality … Continue reading Christmas Lesson Plan: Staying safe at Christmas
This is a quick idea based around this video from Microsoft, showing a concept for living with technology in the near future. This is one of those videos that I love coming across, as there seems to be so much potential for exploitation in class. On this occasion, I wanted to set up a simple … Continue reading Future passive and Technology video (B1/B2)
Before 2016, June 24th had always had positive connotations for me. It’s Midsummer. It’s my birthday. It’s Lionel Messi’s birthday. A good day. That is, until this year. Nigel Farage declared June 24th 2016 to be Britain’s new “Independence Day”, in celebration of the fact that the EU Referendum held the day before had just … Continue reading Brexit, Immigration, and English Language Teaching
Materials to download Powerpoint presentation: selfies-1(.pdf format) selfies-1 (.ppt format) Descriptions of self-portraits for the reading stage: selfie-descriptions (.docx format)selfie-descriptions (.pdf format) This is a fun EFL lesson plan I created to provide speaking and vocabulary practice to higher level students. It encourages discussion around the subject of art, modern “selfie” culture, and ends with a CAE part … Continue reading Speaking Lesson Plan (B2+): Selfies and Self-Portraits
