Instant Lessons

If students are planning to stay at a hotel overseas, it's always a good idea to check out reviews online first.

This worksheet looks at some customer comments about a hotel. What were the hotel amenities like? Did they get a free room upgrade? Do the rooms have Wi-Fi?

This worksheet helps build your students' vocabulary and reading skills. There are also lots of discussion questions. Find out what your students think is important when choosing a hotel.

As homework, you could have students write a review of hotels they've stayed in.

This worksheet is written for upper intermediate and advanced-level classes.

This is a great worksheet for looking at culture differences. At what age did (or will) your students leave home for good? Could they live with their parents forever? What factors stop grown-up children from moving out?

This worksheet has a gap-fill reading with vocabulary / collocation exercises and lots of discussion questions.

As an extra activity, your students can draw up a contract for parents and adult children living together. What can be done to make life easier for everyone?

This worksheet is for upper-intermediate and advanced-level students.

2022 marks the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Your students are likely to know about the story of Titanic, thanks to Kate and Leo. This worksheet lets them talk about ways the disaster could have been prevented. Conveniently, it involves your students using the third conditional.

There is a reading, summarizing activity, grammar practice and discussion questions.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced level classes.

How far will your male students go in order to look good before going out?!

This worksheet takes a light-hearted look at the growing popularity of male grooming - everything from moisturiser to exfoliating scrubs and eyeliner (guyliner?)!

After the topic lead-in, there is a gap-fill reading, followed by vocabulary building exercises and discussion.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate to advanced classes.

Apologizing is difficult at the best of times - and even more so in a foreign language!

This worksheet looks at a number of common expressions, including:

• in the heat of the moment
• go too far
• be way out of line
• don't give it another thought

...and more.

There's a conversation, followed by practice exercises and role-play.

This worksheet is written for upper intermediate to advanced learners.

This worksheet is a great way to build your students' knowledge of some of the more common expressions used when talking about trials. You don't need to be a legal genius - it's the kind of vocabulary that's often heard in TV legal dramas.

There's a gap-fill reading, followed by comprehension questions, and vocabulary-building exercises.

The worksheet rounds off with discussion questions. Would your students like to be on a jury? Do they watch TV legal dramas?

This worksheet is written for advanced (and possibly upper-intermediate) level students.

This advanced-level worksheet is bound to get your students talking!

The topic is names. Why do some names lose their popularity? Which names are most popular in the UK and USA? Do we make assumptions about people based on their names?

This worksheet has a reading (with a gapfill exercise) followed by vocabulary / collocation building exercises.

The lesson rounds off with a series of discussion questions. Do your students like their names? How easy is it for someone to change his/her name? Find out with this worksheet!

This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to music.

Your students will learn about:

• play it by ear
• as fit as a fiddle
• blow your own trumpet
• music to my ears
• change your tune

As well as a guess-the-meaning exercise, there are additional exercises to help your students memorise the language.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions which use the idioms.