Instant Lessons

This higher-level worksheet takes wealth as its subject.

Who are the super rich? Where do they get their money, and how do they spend it?

The lesson has an opening discussion question, followed by a gap-fill reading. There are mix-and-match exercises to boost your students' knowledge of collocations.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions, where students can speculate on what they would do with their millions...

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

This worksheet looks at some of the most common ways of keeping in contact with people: telephone, letters and online. Is letter-writing a dying art? When did your students last send a personal letter? Could they survive without a cell phone? How up-to-date are they with Twitter, Facebook and the like? This worksheet has lots of discussion questions to get your students talking. It's great for intermediate-level classes, but can easily be adapted for other classes.

This discussion-based worksheet is a fantastic way to get your lower-level students using the English they have learned to talk about themselves. The topic is childhood. Your students will have the chance to talk about where they grew up, games they used to play, and their experiences at school. This worksheet is designed for lower-intermediate level students.

This worksheet makes a great instant lesson for your lower-level students. There's a quick quiz on the pyramids, followed by a short reading. Your students can then build their vocabulary through an exercise that gets them guessing meaning from context. The lesson rounds off with discussion questions, so that your class can talk about the pyramids, famous tourist spots in their countries, and where they would like to go in the world.

This worksheet is part of a series of handouts looking at different business-related topics.

This handout looks at tax rises and industrial relations.

Students have cut up strips for two different newspaper articles. They need to separate them and put them in order.

There are also vocabulary-building exercises, with your students learning phrases such as 'curb the deficit', 'rein in public sector pay', 'denounce the rise', 'ballot members' and more.

With lots of discussion questions, this is a great worksheet for advanced-level students who want to be able to talk fluently about the current business climate.

Teaching prefixes is a great way to boost your students' vocabulary!

There are four different prefixes in this lesson: super-, anti-, mis- and pre-.

Students need to match eight words with their correct prefix, and put them in the correct sentence. It's not as easy as it looks!

To help students memorise the language, there are discussion questions which recycle the target vocabulary.

It's a great instant lesson!

This is a great lesson to help your students talk about a game they watched.

Students can find it tough when telling a story - and the listener can often end up confused. One reason is tenses. This worksheet gives lots of practice of the Past Simple and Past Continuous. There's a conversation, with practice exercises and discussion. As well as the target language, there is plenty of incidental vocabulary for your students to learn. This worksheet is great for lower-intermediate level students.