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Oxford Word Of The Year

Level: C1/C2 Time: 90min

This engaging ESL lesson was inspired by 2025 OxfordWOTY and is based on a viral YouTube video that explains how provocative online content is designed to trigger outrage and boost engagement. Using humour and exaggeration, the video offers a sharp commentary on social media, algorithms, and modern online behaviour.

Designed for advanced (C1/C2) ESL learners, this lesson helps students practise listening, vocabulary, and critical discussion while exploring how language, psychology, and attention economics shape internet culture.

🗂️ In this ESL lesson, students will:

  • 🎧 develop listening comprehension using an authentic online video,
  • 🧩 learn contemporary vocabulary and expressions from internet culture,
  • 💬 analyse tone, irony, exaggeration, and persuasion,
  • 🧠 discuss algorithms, online outrage, and digital identity,
  • 🗣️ practise expressing opinions and responding critically.

💡 Why you’ll love this lesson
This ready-to-use ESL worksheet includes vocabulary tasks, high-level comprehension questions, and discussion prompts, plus a full answer key. It’s ideal for teachers who want to bring current, real-world English into advanced classes and spark meaningful conversation about life online.

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Reborn Dolls

Level: B2 and up Time: 90min

This thought-provoking ESL lesson — “Reborn Dolls” — is based on a short documentary video about adults who collect life-like “reborn” dolls. It’s an unusual, emotional topic that helps students practise listening comprehension, vocabulary, and discussion skills while exploring a fascinating real-life hobby that blurs the line between art, therapy, and obsession.

Perfect for upper-intermediate and advanced ESL learners, this lesson encourages empathy, creativity, and deep reflection on how people cope with loss or loneliness.

🗂️ In this ESL lesson, students will:

  • 🧩 learn new vocabulary connected to emotions, appearance, and health,
  • 🎧 complete listening comprehension exercises based on a real documentary video,
  • 💬 discuss topics like grief, comfort, judgment, and human connection,
  • 🧠 express opinions and practise agreeing and disagreeing politely,

💡 Why you’ll love this lesson

This ESL video lesson plan includes ready-to-use, worksheets for vocabulary, listening comprehension, and discussion. It’s ideal for teachers who want to bring authentic, real-world topics into the classroom and help students speak naturally about emotions and empathy.

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Gaming Grandma

Level: B1/B2 Time: 60min

Grandma Gamer meets her biggest fan. These two prove that friendship has no age limit. Shirley Curry is an 82-year-old living in a retirement community. Joseph is a 26-year-old who turned to online games after family tragedy. This is the story of how the gaming world unexpectedly made them the best of friends.

This online/projector lesson focuses on speaking and listening skills but there is some vocabulary work to do, too.

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School dress code

Level: B1 and up Time: 120 min

This one is going to work great with most classes from B1 up.

A dress code is a set of rules, often written, with regards to what clothing groups of people must wear. Dress codes are created out of social perceptions and norms, and vary based on purpose, circumstances, and occasions.

One of the places where dress code causes the most controversy are schools.

Uniforms, piercing, low cut shirts, tank tops etc… The lesson is a great opportunity to present/revise clothes vocabulary and involve SS in a lively discussion.

Look at teachers notes for lesson plan and answers to the presentation. The lesson involves quizlet vocabulary set.

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How to get rich?

Level: B1 Time: 30-45min

After creating a huge piece of content based on articles from Huffington Post and finding out that I won’t be able to share it with you guys, I got frustrated, big time… and decided that I need a little break.

I did. Couple of months of trying to figure out something new and here I am. Back in the game, with all new… Totally Inappropriate Listening Activities based on a YT show created by Truly.

They will all come in form of pdf presentations with a quizlet vocabulary set and answer sheet. You can either use them for your online or f2f classes.

The first is a story of Sativa, a 23-year-old making decent money selling pictures of her feet.

Enjoy the lesson and stay tuned for more.

QUIZLET:

https://quizlet.com/581437238/how-to-get-rich-ogfoot-flash-cards/?x=1qqt

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Conspiracy Theories

Level: B2 and up

Conspiracy theories have thrived during the pandemic. It’s quite likely that your ss might have met someone who’s brought one up.

Ability to distinguish fact from fiction might just become one of the crucial skills in the next couple of years.

In this handout ss will have a chance to see how conspiracy theories affect the way people perceive the world around them.

In the first part work with a TYT video on a the first-ever, state-by-state survey of American Millennials and Gen Z (ages 18 to 39) on Holocaust.

In the second part, professor Jovan Byford explains how to talk about conspiracy theories.

Quizlet Set to practice vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/536679652/conspiracy-theories-flash-cards/

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