This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them. Aims: To develop students’ understanding of EI and its importance. To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools. To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information. To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information. To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually. To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings. The lesson files include: Step by step lesson plan and answer key Presentation Photocopiable worksheets

This lesson plan explores the topic of crime and motivation. It uses images and a crime story to develop students’ vocabulary around the topic of crime. It also helps to develop their understanding of narrative tenses. Most importantly, the lesson pushes students to think more critically about the information they are being told and to think about how they can cross-check information. At the end of the lesson, students are also encouraged to do research in preparation for a debate about various issues related to crime and punishment. This lesson also has an interactive version of the materials that teachers can use with a data-projector or interactive whiteboard. The students can also follow the lesson and interact with the materials using a tablet, mobile phone or computer.

In this lesson about money students will explore cryptocurrency, one of the most fascinating and poorly understood elements of digitalisation that could soon impact all of our lives. They will exchange their knowledge, views and experiences of money and read and research cryptocurrencies and the mysterious creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto and all of this while developing their English, communication skills and digital literacies. Aims: To develop students’ knowledge and ability to talk about and understand cryptocurrencies. Level: Intermediate + (B1- C2) Materials: Teachers’ Guide - (PDF) Digital presentation: Demonstration Copy

Understanding and being able to convey information about a sales funnel is an important part of any commercial business. In this lesson, students will listen to three managers discussing their sales funnel, learn associated vocabulary and work together to design a sales funnel for a new company. Aims To enable students to understand and discuss the process of attracting and converting new customers. Time: 90 mins + Level: B1 + Materials: Teachers’ Notes - PDF Presentation: Demonstration copy Vocabulary activity: https://bit.ly/38EeLFJ Listening activity: https://bit.ly/3kx1Rfs Role play cards: https://bit.ly/3y2UqVj Reflection task: https://bit.ly/3kwhKmg Additional Materials: Speaking activity: https://bit.ly/3ku3LNJ

This lesson is based on an infographic about magnets. The infographics contains a range of facts and statistics as well as some information about magnets and how they are used. In the lesson students will find out about the different uses of magnets and why they are so important. The plan also includes a number of research tasks that develop students’ abilities to create and carry out online research, create online questionnaires and share their research by creating infographics, presentations and reports. The files include a complete step by step lesson plan with printable worksheet and a presentation.

This lesson is based on a single image of a girl sitting in the forest with a tiger. The lesson includes a variety of discussion and conversation tasks that you can use to get students thinking and talking about the image. These are followed by language focus tasks and some more creative tasks. As well as vocabulary, the plan can be used to practice ‘present continuous’, ‘present perfect continuous’ or ‘second conditional’. Finally, there are some suggestions for digital research and creation follow-up tasks. It’s not necessary to use all of the tasks in the plan, you can choose to use any of the tasks individually or change the order of the tasks depending on the approach you want to take and the level of your students.

‘Okay Goldilocks. How do you like it?’ This lesson is based on a single image of a bear lying in bed surrounded by books. The lesson includes a variety of discussion and conversation tasks that you can use to get students thinking and talking about the image. These are followed by language focus tasks and some more creative tasks. Finally, there are some suggestions for digital research and creation follow-up tasks. It’s not necessary to use all of the tasks in the plan, you can choose to use any of the tasks individually or change the order of the tasks depending on the approach you want to take and the level of your students.

This lesson is based on a single image of a girl standing alone at night by a shop window. Her facial expression is ambiguous and it’s not clear why she is there. The lesson includes a variety of discussion and conversation tasks that you can use to get students thinking and talking about why she is there and how she feels. These are followed by language focus tasks and some more creative tasks. Finally, there are some suggestions for digital research and creation follow-up tasks. It’s not necessary to use all of the tasks in the plan, you can choose to use any of the tasks individually or change the order of the tasks depending on the approach you want to take and the level of your students.

This book is a collection of fluency activities that encourage students to think creatively and which help to build their ability to empathise with others. Each short lesson is based around a beautiful image, starts with a vocabulary building activity and has a set of questions designed to make students think more deeply about the story behind the image and encourage their curiosity and imagination. The lessons also include creative activities that can be used for writing or speaking practice. These include role-plays, simulations and creative writing tasks. This is an example presentation from one of the ten units: http://bit.ly/forest-demo Each lesson also ends with some form of follow up research task that encourages students to find out more about the images and topics that the activities deal with. These short lessons can be used in full to form the basis of a fluency lesson or they can be used in part as warmers or fillers to get students speaking and thinking in English. Each lesson also includes a digital presentation that can either be shared using a projector or students can access the materials on their mobile devices using a short link or QR code. The QR codes can be accessed through the teachers’ presentation.

This ebook was designed to be the first in a series of collections of the simple activities and ideas I have used over many years when delivering teaching and teacher training sessions that incorporate the use of digital technologies. The ideas use simple free tools that have stood the test of time and remained consistently reliable. The teaching ideas and activities themselves are ones that I have adapted from my pre-technology teaching days, so they are all built on sound classroom teaching practice. The activities are ideal for the modern connected classroom in which students come to class with a variety of devices, but they can also be used in a blended context and students can be assigned some parts of the tasks to do outside of the classroom. I have also included a collection of 8 video tutorials to help less tech confident teachers deal with the technology side of using the materials. I hope these materials will act as a bridge for teachers who are newer or less confident at using digital tools and materials and help them provide engaging and motivating language learning experiences for their students.

This lesson plan is based on an infographic that reports on a survey into advertising, people’s attitudes to it and how it influences them. Aims: To develop students’ abilities to think critically and form informed opinions. To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools. To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information. To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information. To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually. To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings. The materials in this plan can be used in different ways. The first four tasks can be used independently as a simple reading and discussion lesson. The final four tasks can be used selectively to develop various digital skills. This lesson contains eight tasks: A discussion task that gets students thinking about advertisements and how they influence their behavior. A reading task that develops students’ abilities to scan text for specific information A reading task that develops students’ abilities to check and confirm information. A discussion task that gives students the opportunity to reflect on the information and apply it to their own lives. A social research task that gets students to create an online questionnaire to find out about people’s attitudes to advertising. A research task that gets students to check the accuracy of information .A research task that gets students to research the advertising techniques used by various companies. A writing task that gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning in the form of a blog article.

This lesson has been designed for online or face-to-face delivery. In this lesson, students share their experiences of doing interviews for jobs or college. They discuss the kinds of questions they may be asked at a job interview and listen to some example questions and answers. They also look at some examples of good and bad body language. They finish by role playing an interview for a job they would like. Aims: To develop students’ ability to do job interviews in English. To develop students’ understanding of body language. To help students understand the types of questions they may have to answer in a job interview. Level: Low intermediate + (A2/B1) Materials: Digital presentation: Demo Copy Pronunciation activity: https://bit.ly/interview-dict Printable presentation (PDF) Audio files (Zip mp3 x 2)

Techniques, Exercise and Activities for the Creative Language Classroom This book is for any language teacher who is interested in developing their own and their students’ creative skills while teaching languages. The book is in two sections. -: The first part looks at a range of teaching techniques that you can use in any lesson to help develop your students’ creativity. It also includes some suggestions and easy exercises for applying these in the classroom. -: The second part is a collection of 30 structured activities. These include step by step instructions as well as example digital materials that you can use in the classroom. The example materials have been designed so that you can use them on any digital device with an internet connection. Example digital presentation: Interview Images I hope you and your students will find this book an enjoyable and useful accompaniment for your everyday teaching.

This book has been designed as a teachers’ guide to the use of the digital and interactive materials from the second 10 units of the Conversation & Listening series. The book contains the step-by-step instructions outlining how to use the materials and presentations and implement the activities in each stage of the lesson units. The Conversation & Listening series was designed to help and encourage young adult English language students (A2/B1 or higher) to engage in conversation and interaction around a range of common topics and in a range of situations that will be of interest to them. Each unit contains materials for 90 -120 mins contact time and an additional 60+ mins interactive self-study materials. Unit Topics A Good Book - To enable students to discuss different types of books. A Night Out - To enable students to talk about different places they like to go in the evening. My Goals - To enable students to talk about their goals in life and their attitudes to achieving their goals. My Sense of Humour - To enable students to discuss their sense of humour and describe different types of humour. The Dancer - To enable students to share their opinions and experiences of dance. The Gamer - To enable students to discuss their experiences of a range of issues around video games. The News - To develop students’ abilities to think more critically about news and how they access it. The Story - To develop students’ abilities to tell stories and anecdotes. The Tattoo - To enable students to talk about body art, how it is viewed in different cultures and why people have tattoos. The Vegan - To develop students’ ability to discuss the types of food they like and their attitudes to eating meat.

In this lesson, students discuss and learn about the difficult process of firing someone. They learn about the procedure and language for firing an employee, listen to three managers who made mistakes when firing someone, and role play talking to members of their team and reassuring them. Aims To enable students to use the processes and language for firing a member of staff. Time: 60 mins + Level: B1 + Materials: Teachers' Guide (PDF) Presentation: [Demonstration copy](https://view.genial.ly/6173a1e32d16df0de52ff83e) Reading 1: https://bit.ly/3vwtTw9 Activity: https://bit.ly/30UXiVJ Dictation: https://bit.ly/2XACCAW Role card 1 A: https://bit.ly/3jwiIij Role card 1 B: https://bit.ly/3m4EtHE Role card 2 A: https://bit.ly/2XFVz5q Role card 2 B: https://bit.ly/3Gh8Wu4 Reflection task: https://bit.ly/3nnS4Jt

In this lesson, students try to understand the nature of conspiracy theories, how they evolve and how to debunk them. They also look at how to talk to people about them in a non-confrontational way. Aims: To develop students’ knowledge and ability to talk about and understand the nature of conspiracy theories. Level: Intermediate + (B1- C2) Tools: Note pad: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/ Whiteboard: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/ Materials: Teachers’ Guide - PDF Digital presentation: Demonstration copy Infographic - Conspiracy Theories: https://bit.ly/3n30QxV

This ebook was designed with English language teachers in mind but should have some value for any teacher who is interested in developing their students’ digital literacy and critical thinking skills. The book contains a wide range of suggested activities for both the creation and exploitation of infographics in the classroom. It also helps teachers with tips and advice on how to plan and create infographics and suggestions for which tools to use to produce different types of infographic. Exploiting Infographics follows on from 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy, which is a collection of lesson plans based around infographics, and looks in more depth at the genre and how infographics can be used as both sources of information and as creative learning tasks for students. The tasks that accompany the infographics are intended to encourage students to think more critically about the information they are exposed to and to question the sources of information they find whilst browsing the internet. Exploiting Infographics should help teachers to start creating their own tasks activities and lesson plans for students and to integrate infographics in a way that will enhance students’ critical thinking, digital literacy, language and communication skills.

This ebook is 53 pages long and was originally published in 2009 so some of thetools are a bit out of date, but the ideas can still be used. This document is intended as simple introduction to some free Web 2.0 type tools that can be used by teachers who are interested in using technology in language teaching. The tools presented here are just the tip of the iceberg and this should not be considered in anyway conclusive or even the ʻbest ofʼ Web 2.0 tools. New tools are emerging all the time, many not originally intended for education, but which can be put to good use by students and teachers alike to extent opportunities, enhance learning potential and develop the level of digital literacy that students will need for the 21st century.

TED Ed is a great tool for creating online lessons around videos. It enables you to structure a sequence of interactive activities around the video clip that guides the viewer towards a deeper understanding of the content. It’s an ideal tool for building blended learning. In this document you can find: -: a step by step guide showing how to use it -: a video tutorial that shows you how to make the activities -: some suggestions and ideas for using it in the classroom or as part of an online course.

This book is a wonderful collection of 20 stories from teachers around the world. Each one describes how they try to be genuine in their interactions with their students and how they try to model the practices they promote. The stories come from teachers of all levels, ages and grades. The book displays the wide range of diversity that exists in both the classrooms and the way teachers approach their profession around the world. Edited by Adelina binte Asmawi George M Jacobs Guo Qingli Willy A Renandya Foreword by Alan Maley