Slang isn’t for everyone. It’s probably not a good idea to teach lots of colloquial expressions at lower levels. But with students at B2 level and above, it can be a fun and valuable addition to lessons. 

Here are eight engaging activities to help you introduce and practise slang in your lessons.

When we think of summer lessons, travel, holidays, and hot weather are often the first things that come to mind. These are all useful and engaging topics, and they definitely deserve a spot in your summer syllabus. But what if you’re tired of teaching the same lessons every year?

If you’re ready to shake things up, here are seven versatile topics that work brilliantly for summer and offer plenty of scope for meaningful language practice.

Photos are a brilliant tool for teaching or revising language. They’re flexible, engaging, and easy to use. With just a few well-chosen images, you can practise grammar, review vocabulary, or simply have a bit of language fun.

In this article are ten quick and effective ideas for using photos in your English lessons. All you need are the photos - no prep beyond that!

We know how difficult it can be to prepare grammar revision activities without them being boring or repetitive. In this article we have 7 ideas for fun grammar revisions that don’t involve worksheets (well, except for one, but we made it fun!).

The problem with business English lessons is that very often they’re… well, a bit disconnected. But what if you could make them much more practical and relevant to what your students actually need? Read on to find out how you could do it!

Teaching past tenses can often feel like a daunting task, but with the right activities, it can become an engaging and rewarding experience for both teachers and students. The following activities are designed to help students practise past tenses in a meaningful and interactive way.

Nowadays, more and more people (including your students!) have to interview for a new job in English. In this article, we want to encourage you to help your students ace those questions and get their dream job!

In English classes, we often focus on teaching students to make presentations, answer discussion questions, and describe pictures. However, we sometimes overlook practising a key skill: asking questions. This skill is essential in daily life, yet forming questions in English can be challenging due to complex grammar rules.

As a teacher, you’re probably familiar with a desert island dilemma:

You’re stuck on a desert island together with 7 other people: a policeman, a prisoner, a chef, a toddler, a retired doctor, a young couple. There’s a boat coming to rescue 3 of you. You can save yourself and 2 other people. The boat journey is going to take a few days. Who do you save?

In this post, we’ll show you how to turn this short dilemma into a full lesson with grammar practice.

Role plays are one of our favourite EFL activities. They allow students to practise communication, they’re fun and quick to set up. In this article we have a few tips on how you can get the most out of role plays.

Your students complain about doing any reading activities but you know they have to be done? You tried setting it as homework, but if only 50% of students complete it, that’s a win?

Check out these ideas on how to make your students interested in reading before you even present the text! 

International Women’s Day is just around the corner, so we’ve compiled this list of 9 ideas to help you plan lessons about women. Even if you’re not planning on covering this topic in your classes, these ideas will also work at any other time of the year. 

Is it difficult to practise speaking at the elementary level? We don’t think so! First of all, remember that at the lowest levels, speaking practice does not mean discussing complicated topics. We can establish that at this level whenever students say anything, they practise speaking. So, give them as many opportunities to speak as possible. Even if it’s only saying single sentences.

Check out our ideas for speaking activities that work with the lowest levels.

Have you got A Bunch of Humans? 

Your Valentine’s lessons are going to be a breeze! Use these zero-prep activities with the Profile Cards from A Bunch of Humans as fillers or to prepare full lessons. 

It’s time to ditch those gap-fill exercises (for the time being)! Check out our ideas for revising conditionals in speaking. 

It’s that time of year again! And if you still don’t know what to do with your students, check out our list of 15 ideas for your Christmas and New Year’s lessons.

How about making November a gratitude month? Even if you and your students don't celebrate Thanksgiving, this time of year is a great opportunity to cultivate gratitude (and practise English at the same time!). 

Thanksgiving is such a wonderful time of the year. It’s a great opportunity to pause and appreciate all the things we have. Even if you and your students don’t celebrate this holiday, it’s a great excuse to plan lessons on gratitude or kindness. Below, we have a few ideas for activities that you can use around this time of year.

A webquest is a lesson activity, in which students use real websites to complete a project. Check out this article for a few ideas for webquest projects, in which students have to also deal with money and budgeting.

Effective language learning means frequent revisions. But students don’t always have time (or motivation) to revise vocabulary on their own at home. So it’s often up to us, teachers, to help make it stick. But don’t worry, vocabulary revision doesn’t always mean spending hours preparing fun games. In this article we have 10 ideas for quick and very effective vocabulary revision activities. They all require very little or no prep.