In textbook we use in school for my English learners the students are taught vocab such as someone, anyone, anything etc so I decided to use Billie Eilish’s song “Everything I wanted” as it uses these words. Then, as it is about dreams I have a comprehension text on dreams. And I have added part of my grammar lesson on indefinite pronouns. This should be used with a textbook that includes this grammatical concept (to do exercises on it for example).

Here is a lesson based on food. This is taken from the New York Times; however, it's been heavily edited, with vocabulary exercises, lots of formatting due to the layout on their website, so it's actually been several hours of work.

This is a collection of lessons from an idea to use an excellent speech by RM from BTS An introduction to who BTS are (with information on their military service) United Nations Guide RM’s BTS Speech along with a transcript (the transcript was copied for answering the questions afterwards) One Ok Rock - Stand out, fit in song - chosen because it’s linked to the topic that RM discusses The last 2 pages has the questions which I would print separately so it’s easier to refer to the text to answer the questions. For each link (e.g. Youtube) they are embedded into each image: About the United Nations António Guterres speaking in several languages Love Myself promotional video RM’s speech One Ok Rock - Stand out, fit in The face changing dancer

Hi This is basically a continuation of my Great Barrier Reef lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12677847 I have created comprehension texts on: Sharks Dolphins and whales Humpback whales Orcas Tilikum (the orca from the Netflix documentary Blackfish) PETA

Lesson 5 Uluru Lesson 6 Aborigines Lesson 7 Australia Day (updated for 2023) Lesson 8 Australia Cultural class This is the second part of my Australia scheme of work, but naturally you could use any of these lessons separately. There are two booklets. In the easier one there are two different exercises (just made a bit easier for weaker students). I have added the video clips to a Youtube list but some can’t be added The Uluru video on the PowerPoint is from the BBC and for some reason videos designed for children on Youtube cannot be saved to a playlist. But they are embedded in the PowerPoint lessons. Regarding the biographies: Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie and Chris Hemsworth I get the students to, in groups of 3 or 4 take the text and try to summarise it then they read in front of the students who take notes (a kind of dictogloss) to see what they understand. After all this then students can read the biographies together in class. The biographies for Jackman, Robbie and Hemsworth have been taken from different sources edited, rewritten and like all my other lessons I’ve added pics and formatted it myself.

Hello all When the Taliban sadly took over Afghanistan in 2021 I knew that some of my original lessons would be no longer relevant and out-of-date. They have been recently updated (November 2024 but I am still updating book 3). Just to note, sometimes there are key words translated into French as I teach in a French school (student level is B2/B2+)

This is a set of lessons on Australia. I used to have the Commonwealth as the first lesson in my Australia scheme of work but have decided to not use it, so I’ll just add it as an extra. Lesson 1 – Penal Colony Lesson 2- The origins of Australia Lesson 3 - Tourism in Australia. I made this on Prezi but have made a new PowerPoint that has replaced the Prezi. Lesson 4 - Focus on Sydney (updated 11.2023) Although I call them Lessons 1, 2, 3 and 4 they will take more than one lesson depending on how long a lesson lasts in your school. I made class tests for each lesson but deleted them just in case my students found them! The workbook has a harder and easier version but the only difference is for the Sydney video as the video gap fill is a bit easier. The videos are embedded in the lessons, but if they don’t work you could copy the link and go to the site manually.

The OJ Simpson murder case: Dictogloss and Comprehension text This is a text I created based on different sources and my own editing. If you don’t know what a dictogloss is, full instructions are included in the document.