Instant Lessons

How much do your students know about the origins of the Olympic Games?

Following the lead-in, there is a pre-reading vocabulary-matching exercise, and a text on the history of the games.

This is followed by true/false comprehension questions and vocabulary building exercises.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions.

This worksheet is written for lower-intermediate level students and above.

This worksheet looks at a basic conversation about seeing a movie.

There is a verb gap fill conversation, followed by comprehension questions checking your students skills with the past and present simple.

The lesson continues with a controlled substitution speaking exercise and free production.

The worksheet rounds off with discussion questions on films (and film franchises, such as Star Wars).

This worksheet is written for elementary and lower-intermediate level classes.

Help your students target those pesky intermediate-level errors with our Grammar Goofs worksheet! There are twenty-four cards which you can either cut out or use as they are on the handout. Each sentence has an error commonly made by intermediate-level students. Topics cover include:

• tenses
• used to
• modals
• conditionals
• able to
• have something done
• indirect questions

and much more! It's great to use either as a game in the lesson or as homework. This is the third part of our series of grammar goofs. You could also check out our complete error correction collection!

Is the Christmas you see on TV shows on commercials similar to the Christmas your students enjoy? Is it all wonderful food and drink with well-behaved relatives?! This lesson looks at some of the stress that Christmas can cause! Following the lead-in, there is a collocation matching exercise, and then a gap fill reading. We have kept the reading reasonably easy (especially with your pre-teaching!) so your students won't be feeling too stressed themselves! Some expressions they will learn include:

• the festive season
• look forward to
• an overcooked turkey
• a controversial topic

The lesson continues with comprehension questions, more collocation practice and the chance for your students to give advice on how to reduce stress at Christmas. It's a great topic for discussion - you can add lots of questions at the end. Your students will have a fun - but also useful - lesson to round off the year. This lesson is written for pre-intermediate level students.

How well can your students talk about holidays and festivals?

This worksheet has a conversation about Thanksgiving with gap fill exercises and true/false comprehension questions.

The worksheet continues with substitution speaking exercises looking at other festivals and holidays around the world - Bonfire Night, Independence Day and Coming of Age Day.

The lesson rounds off with the opportunity for your students to personalise the language and talk about a festival or holiday they know about.

Acting is a job that everyone has an opinion about. Many would see it as an unusual career choice - but do any of your students wish they had become actors? This worksheet has a gap-fill reading, broken up into sections. Your students will learn new expressions including:

• an inspirational teacher (like you...)
• to have the edge
• a highly competitive field
• an aspiring actor
• to have a thick skin

The lesson rounds off with an extended discussion, covering both the new language and the topic of becoming an actor. This worksheet is for intermediate to advanced-level students.

Did your students experience a hi-tech education? Do they all have electronic dictionaries and English-learning apps on their smartphones?

This worksheet looks at the role of technology in the classroom, and the apparent link between countries with low technological use but high academic achievement. The worksheet has a prediction quiz, gap-fill reading, comprehension questions and extended discussion.

Students need lots of practice of comparative and superlative adjectives!

This worksheet is based around a general knowledge TV quiz show. There's a dialogue, followed by practice exercises.

Your students will have the opportunity to make their own sentences and create a mini-general knowledge quick which they can try out on their classmates - or the teacher!

This worksheet is written for lower level classes.