Instant Lessons

Smoking has been in the news in the last few years, with many countries passing laws banning smoking in public areas.

What do your students think of this kind of legislation? Find out, and at the same time, help your students build vocabulary, collocation and discussion skills.

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

Would any of your students like to take a year off, and work as a volunteer overseas? What skills do they have which they could use?

This worksheet has a reading, vocabulary exercises, collocation practice, and lots of opportunities for your students to speak.

'Volunteering Abroad' is written for upper-intermediate and advanced-level students.

It's said that we need eight hours' sleep every night. However, is that really true, and how many people actually sleep for that long?

This worksheet takes sleep as its theme, with reading, vocabulary building and discussion questions.

It's a timeless topic, and is particularly suitable for intermediate and advanced-level classes.

Nowadays, many people have access to the news 24 hours a day, thanks to the Internet and rolling-news channels.

This fluency-building worksheet looks at some of the most popular ways your students get their news.

Find out your students' opinions on the quality of newspapers, TV and Internet news.

These discussion questions are written for intermediate-level students, but can be adapted for other levels.

Travel always works well as a conversation topic. This worksheet is designed for intermediate level students and above.

The questions listed are only suggestions for beginning a discussion. Depending on the dynamics of your class, you could choose to focus on questions one to five, or challenge your students with more thought-provoking questions from six to eleven.

The ability to write email in English is an important skill your students will need to master.

This worksheet looks at common expressions used in informal email messages. There's a reading, with a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, plus some comprehension questions.

The worksheet rounds off with some task-based email writing practice. Get your students to email you the homework! Alternatively, we have blank email templates which you can photocopy for use in the class.

This worksheet is for lower-intermediate students, but can be adjusted for other levels.

If your students need writing practice, this worksheet will help.

It looks at writing a formal letter, and works well in both business English, and general English classes.

There is an example letter, with practice exercises to help your students master not only the expressions, but also the layout of a formally-written letter.

This worksheet is designed for intermediate-level students, but can easily be adjusted for other levels.

There's also a British-English version. (See below.) This has changes for style and letter layout.

'Looking into the Future' is a great way of building your students' abilities with more complex future tenses.

This worksheets has extensive practice of both the future perfect, and the future continuous (progressive).

There is a conversation, grammar-based exercises, and lots of speaking at the end. There's a choice of discussion, or (if you have lots of students) a 'find someone who' exercise.

This worksheet is designed for intermediate classes, but can easily be adjusted for other levels. It's great for both general and business classes.