A selection of worksheets and lesson plans for imaginative listening lessons.
Listening skills lesson plans: Talking about your family
Listening for specific information, listening for details and recognising context.
Audio serializations of a selection of Macmillan Readers at various levels, with accompanying listening activities.
The Gift of the Magi: Part 1
This advanced-level story is set in New York at Christmas in the early 1900s. It is about a young married couple who are poor but very much in love, and want to buy each other the best Christmas present possible.
This series of mini-plays bring a slice of contemporary British life to your lessons. Each play includes a downloadable mp3 file, student worksheets with listening and language activities and teacher’s notes.
Football fanatics
This mini-play features a father and son from Yorkshire, who are on a long-distance journey to a football match. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
A series of video lessons featuring interviews with members of the public. Each lesson includes a set of ideas to use in class and a transcript of the interviews.
Live from London: Money
This video includes interviews with Londoners talking about money.
Live from London: Christmas video special!
Set in Brixton, London, this video lesson includes authentic interviews with people living in London, telling us how they celebrate Christmas.
Getting more out of 'The Road Less Travelled'
Lindsay Clandfield suggests some activities to extend the onestopenglish soap opera lessons.
Jazz chants: Introduction
Miles Craven presents a series of short jazz chants – a fun way to practise stress and rhythm in the classroom, to help your students sound more natural when they speak English.