Instant Lessons

This advanced-level reading is the story of someone who managed, through a series of exchanges, to go from a paperclip to a house!

This worksheet has seven different activities, including reading, vocabulary building, and speaking / discussion practice. It's a great way to build your students' vocabulary range and speaking skills.

This worksheet provides extensive practice of basic passives, with particular emphasis on the question form.

There are eight different exercises in this worksheet. It starts with a conversation, followed by controlled exercises practicing the passive form.

There is a quiz show role play, for which students can make up their own questions. Finally, there are some discussion questions on TV quiz shows.

This worksheet is great for upper-elementary and above. It's easy to adapt for other levels.

Do your students ask you how they can improve their English? This handout takes this common question as its theme.

'Learning English' has seven different exercises. There's a reading, vocabulary work, role-play, collocation practice and discussion.

This worksheet will both help your students with their English, and provide some food for thought.

It's great for intermediate-level students, but can be adjusted for classes with differing abilities.

This two-page worksheet looks as unlikely or impossible situations, using 'If' + 'Would'.

There are six different activities in this worksheet, with lots of opportunities for your students to use the target structure.

Students naturally find this grammar difficult to use. This worksheet is a fun way to help improve your students' accuracy and fluency with 'if'.

Students can often find the practice of tipping very confusing when overseas. How much should they leave? 10%? Nothing?

This worksheet has reading, vocabulary, summarizing and discussion questions. It's great for upper intermediate and advanced-level students.

Do your students download music off the Internet?

This two-page worksheet looks at downloading music, and what the record industry is doing to combat piracy. It's a topic which is bound to lead to lots of discussion.

This is an advanced-level worksheet. There's also an intermediate version called 'Downloading Music'.

This is an intermediate version of the reading worksheet 'The Digital Music Revolution'.

Downloading music is a good topic for the classroom, and this worksheet has a graded reading, vocabulary-building exercises, and lots of discussion questions.

It's ideal for intermediate-level students. For more advanced classes, the higher-level version will work well.

Do your students enjoy flying? How would they feel about riding a plane with no pilot? With advances in technology, it might become reality sooner than we expect.

This worksheet starts with a mini quiz, and has reading, summarizing, vocabulary exercises and discussion questions.

It's great for advanced students, and with some extra vocabulary help, you could teach it to upper-intermediate level students too.