Skills

These resources are for teachers who want to help their students to focus on one particular skill.

Reading Lesson Plans

A news-based reading activity chosen by the teacher.

Students complete a series of activities based on a text about astrology, including a jigsaw reading on Western and Chinese astology.

This lesson looks at a few techniques for ‘thinking’ about writing. There are 3 tasks: brainstorming, loop writing and speed writing.

Students learn about mini sagas and try to write one themselves.

Amber finds herself in a difficult classroom situation so whizzes back to Shakespearean England to find a solution.

Two audio serializations from the Horror Stories collection. Each instalment is accompanied by a comprehensive lesson plan.

Lindsay Clandfield suggests five ways to take Facebook into the ELT classroom.

An activity based on riddles to make learning English fun!