Lessons by level
The levels used
on this index are those of the Common European Framework of
reference for languages (as above).
See
the guide on Wikipedia for more details of the abilities at each
level.
There are materials on this site in
the learners' area which can
be incorporated into your teaching. Materials in that area at
levels C1 and C2 are also suitable for teachers of English (whether
their first language is English or not).
There are some
notes on how to
integrate the materials (whether or not you have classroom
access to the internet).
|
Levels A1 and A2 |
|
I
like, I love, I hate |
A lesson incorporating common verbs
of opinion and lexis around leisure activities |
|
The weather |
A lesson
focusing on simple weather lexis, the seasons and some
adverbs of extent and frequency |
|
Clothes |
This is a plan
for how to use the materials on this site in the learners'
section. It can be adapted for many of the other
lessons at this level |
|
Elementary
prepositions |
These are two short video
presentations which covers some essential prepositions of
place and movement only |
|
Levels B1 and B2 |
|
Gerunds after verbs of opinion |
A lesson incorporating common verbs
of opinion and lexis around leisure activities with gerunds |
|
Writing a Report |
This is a
series of lessons
based around report genre and writing about your home town.
It can be easily adapted for any topic |
|
Quantifiers |
This lesson
works in combination with an exercise on this site and
focuses on the use of quantifiers with countable and
uncountable nouns |
|
Health
issues |
This is a plan
for how to use the materials on this site in the learners'
section. It can be adapted for many of the other
lessons at this level |
|
7 meanings of over |
A mini-video to
present the 7 meanings of over.
Right click the link to
save the video to your computer |
|
Speculating about the past |
This is a two-lesson set of
procedures and materials on past forms of modal auxiliary
verbs. |
|
Forming
relative clauses |
This is a short video presentation
which tries to explain how we make basic relative clauses
with who and which |
|
Forming passive
voice clauses |
This is a short video presentation
which tries to explain how we make basic passive-voice
clauses |
|
Levels C1 and C2 |
|
Gerunds and infinitives |
A lesson incorporating on verbs
which are followed by gerunds or infinitives for opinion
verbs (gerunds) and hopes and plans (infinitives) |
|
Writing a Report |
This is a
series of lessons based around report genre and writing about your home town.
It can be easily adapted for any topic |
|
Present perfect progressive / present perfect simple |
This is a plan
for how to use the materials on this site in the learners'
section focusing on grammatical aspect with two quite tricky
tense forms: the difference between What have you done?
and What have you been doing? |
|
Using time lines for the present perfect progressive |
This is a
video presentation to help you explain the use of the
present perfect progressive for long or repeated actions
resulting in a present decision about the future. |
|
Speculating about the past |
This is a two-lesson set of
procedures and materials on past forms of modal auxiliary
verbs. |
|
Other areas |
|
Identifying word stress |
This is a video presentation about
how to
practise identifying word stress. |
