General English - Pre-intermediate level, Part 1 (20 Lessons)
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Lesson 1. New people
 
In this lesson, students learn useful expressions for meeting and getting to know new people. The lesson also covers the use of the present simple and present continuous. This worksheet is suitable for pre-intermediate and weak intermediate students. There is animated video version of the dialogue included in the lesson plan.
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Lesson 2. Photo story
In this lesson, students listen to Kate talking about her Facebook photos and study the past continuous tense.
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Lesson 3. Buying clothes
This worksheet presents useful words and structures for describing and buying clothes. The lesson plan includes a listening exercise and a role play activity at the end.
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Lesson 4. Describing a job
In this lesson, students learn how to talk about a job. The worksheet presents some common nouns, adjectives and expressions used for describing jobs. The lesson rounds off with a speaking activity in which students interview each other about their own or other people’s jobs using the target language.
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Lesson 5. Describing appearance
In this lesson, students learn how to describe other people’s physical appearance. The worksheet presents common adjectives used for describing what someone looks like as well as questions for asking about another person’s looks.
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Lesson 6. Describing character and behaviour
In this lesson, students learn how to describe a person’s character.
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Lesson 7. Describing food
In this lesson, students learn useful vocabulary for describing different types of food, including terms for different flavours and dishes.
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Lesson 8. Mobile phones - Cell phones
In this lesson, students learn useful words and phrases for talking about their mobile devices.
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Lesson 9. Coffee personality
In this well-rounded lesson plan, students read a short article on how people's coffee drinking preferences determine their personality traits. A number of adjectives for describing character are introduced, and comparative and superlative forms are studied in the grammar part of the lesson.
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Lesson 10. Stereotypes
In this lesson, students read a short article on the perception of British culture according to expats living in Britain. The passive voice is studied in the grammar part of the lesson.
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Lesson 11. Nomophobia
This lesson plan is based on an article about `nomophobia' (the fear of losing one's mobile device). Students do a quick survey on their own mobile fears and then read about how nomophobia is affecting people in the UK. This is followed by a grammar exercise on prepositional phrases.
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Lesson 12. Pet crazy
The topic of this lesson is keeping pets. Students learn key vocabulary and then read an article about a Brazilian family that live with nine tigers. This is followed by an animal vocabulary exercise and speaking activity.
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Lesson 13. Shops and shopping
In this lesson, students learn useful words and phrases for talking about shops/stores and shopping
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Lesson 14. Tourist police
This lesson plan is based on an article about a new "Gangnam style" tourist police force in South Korea. The worksheet includes a grammar exercise on defining relative clauses.
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Lesson 15. Money vocabulary
In this lesson, students learn and practise a variety of vocabulary related to money and value.
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Lesson 16. Informal emails
In this lesson, students learn how to write informal emails. The worksheet presents a variety of typical words and expressions used when greeting someone in an email, writing pleasantries, attaching files, etc.
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Lesson 17. Compliments
In this short lesson filler, students learn how to make and receive a compliment.
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Lesson 18. Colours and shades
This lesson teaches students how to describe different shades of colours as well as some common collocations and idioms with colours.
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Lesson 19. In the future
In this lesson, students read about the future predictions that science fiction writer Isaac Asimov made in 1964 about the world of 2014. The structure 'will + infinitive' for making predictions is studied and practised.
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Lesson 20. Illness and health
This lesson introduces vocabulary for describing illnesses, symptoms, remedies and healthy/unhealthy lifestyles.
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