Secondary lesson plans - upper-intermediate B2 | TeachingEnglish

Find a range of lesson plans to use with teenage learners at upper-intermediate level. All of our lessons are designed around themes that are engaging and relevant to secondary learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their English language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways. Written by young learner experts from around the world, our lesson plans are easy to use and aim to give your students the skills and confidence they need to enjoy learning English.

A family is planting vegetables together

Family footprint

Use this lesson with secondary students to consider the environmental impacts of our families and homes.

Positives and negatives of remote learning

Use this lesson in face-to-face, online or hybrid teaching to discuss the positive and negative aspects of remote learning.

Benefits of being bilingual

Use this lesson in online or face-to-face teaching to focus on the benefits of being bilingual or multilingual.

Women and girls in science

This speaking and reading lesson for teenagers and adults at CEFR level B1 and above looks at the theme of women and girls in science.

Climate change

In this integrated skills lesson, students will work on the topic of climate change, particularly considering how it affects the lives of inhabitants of a low-lying island in the Pacific.

Animal trafficking

The United Nations proclaimed 3 March as ‘UN World Wildlife Day’ to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants.

Two learners working together on a laptop

The mystery of the sand

This lesson is based around a ‘teacher-less task’, a lateral thinking puzzle where students have to work together to first sequence a story and then solve a puzzle.

Tiny Cinderella Somewhere (higher level)

Tiny Cinderella Somewhere is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills speaking about an image. The focus of this lesson is on the use of fixed phrases and idioms, sentence stress and telling the story behind an image.

A remote House in the West of Scotland (higher level)

Remote House in the West of Scotland is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher critical thinking skills to think and speak about visual images. In this lesson, students use listening, writing and vocabulary skills to construct a text around an image that they have chosen.

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