Secondary lesson plans - Upper-intermediate B2

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

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 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.

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.

Tattoo Possibilities is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher critical thinking skills. The focus on this lesson is hypothesising about an image using language prompts, reconstructing a text by means of a dictogloss, and practising speaking skills by speaking about values and attitudes.

Out of Time is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills. The focus of this lesson is on anticipating vocabulary to help understand a listening text, and on preparing and giving a presentation or monologue about a photograph.

After lunch is a set of teaching resources which encourage students to use their higher level critical thinking skills to talk about an image. The focus of this lesson is on students integrating listening, speaking, writing and vocabulary skills in the context of local festivals.

Escape #3 is a complete set of teaching resources designed around an interesting and unusual photograph with activities to activate your students' higher level critical thinking skills.

This pack looks at the topic of travel with a specific focus on speaking and listening skills. Students will discuss famous monuments from their home country and abroad.

One nation under CCTV is a complete set of teaching resources designed around an interesting and unusual photograph with activities to activate your students' higher level critical thinking skills.

This pack looks at the topics of art and street art. The focus is on developing students' ability to speculate about an image, listen for specific information and summary writing skills.