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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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Disturbing Dolls

Level: C1 and up Time: 60-75min

Halloween is here again!

Sometimes the best English lessons are the ones that make students stop and say, “Wait… what?!” This lesson plan, “Disturbing Dolls”, does exactly that. It takes a light-hearted look at the strange world of unwanted, creepy, or broken toys — and turns it into a fun and thought-provoking English class.

In this lesson, students:
🧩 complete grammar and vocabulary exercises based on a real article about a couple who collect “disturbing” toys,
💬 learn new expressions like “get your kicks from”, “rifle through” and “snowball”,
🗣 discuss fears, childhood memories and unusual hobbies,
🎭 take part in a speaking task where they have to pitch one of their old toys to be “rehoused” by the fictional company Unsettling Toys.

The materials are designed to develop communication skills, critical thinking, and a sense of humour — all while practising natural English vocabulary and idioms in context.

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October Color Maths

Level: YL Time: 30-45min

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This one really speaks for itself.

Introduce the names of colors. Make sure that kids either are able to read the names of colors or work with a student who does. Distrubute the paints, brushes and worksheets and simply sit back relax (or run around with a cloth wiping the tables clean0. Enjoy!

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Crazy families.

Level: YL Time: 45-60min

This lesson provides an opportunity for YL to practise family vocabulary and have some fun with it.

You can pre-teach the vocabulary or encourage SS to guess the meaning from the context. You can put SS into pairs or groups and hand out the text and image cards for matching. Explain that SS need to read the family descriptions and match each description with its corresponding picture. You can read the cards if your SS can’t do that yet.

After that invite SS to draw a picture of a family. Then they write a short text describing that family. Make an activity similiar to this one with their cards and pictures. My SS loved to see their own work turned into teaching material.

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Circles and such

Level: YL Time: 60 min

Dzisiaj post po polsku, dla polskich czytelników, bo zajęcia wymagają wyprodukowanej w Polsce gry pt. ‘Kółka i spółka’.

Gra składa się z kart oraz wyciętych z grubej tektury kształtów. Kwadraty, koła, trójkąty i prostokąty w trzech rozmiarach i różnych kolorach.

Moje własne dzieciaki korzystały z gry bardzo chętnie, więc postanowiłem wykorzystać ją do zajęć językowych.

Najbardziej oczywiste jest wykorzystanie gry do wprowadzenia nazw kształtów i rozmiarów. Ja dorzuciłem jeszcze okoliczniki miejsca i inne wyrażenia służące do opisu położenia przedmiotów w przestrzeni.

Zaczynam lekcję od wprowadzenia/powtórzenia nazw kształtów. Potem można zrobić jakieś ćwiczenie TPR w stylu rysowania kształtów na plecach, układanie kształtów z długopisów lub ciał dzieci (jeśli macie na to miejsce 😉).

Potem wchodzi załączony handout. Słownictwo, czytanie, pisanie, słuchanie i mówienie. Wszystko jest.

Zapraszam.

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Huggy Wuggy

Level: B1 Time: 60 min

Plug and play lesson on the controversial topic of Huggy Wuggy the character from a video game called Poppy Platime. The video game is rated for children ages 12 and above. However, law enforcement officials warn that some fan-made videos featuring the character start out with very child-friendly visuals that quickly turn nightmarish so younger children may access them without realizing their true nature.

The police warnings and concerned parents posting appaling comments made Huggy Wuggy a true craze. Which makes it perfect for an up-to-date lesson.

Enjoy.

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I’d rather…

Level: B1/B2 Time: 90min

This lesson is based on the infamous situation that took place during 2022 Oscars Ceremony when Will Smith hit Chris Rock.

I tested it with my teenage groups as well as adults. It’s great for introducing grammar of ‘past tenses to talk about unreal situations’. There is some nice vocabulary to work on. Reading comprehension activities and a little bit of writing based on the article written by NYC author, public speaker and well known social critic Fran Lebowitz.

Fran Lebowitz on Will Smith, Chris Rock and the slap heard round the world

The lessons ends with reading Will Smith’s letter of apology and a discussion on physical and emotional violence and a role play in which SS get a chance to put themselves in the shoes of Jade, Will or Chris.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089360891/will-smith-apology-chris-rock-oscars-slap?t=1649110178606

btw… I felt kinda old when I found out that none of my students knew the movie G.I. Jane 😉 That’s why I recommend watching a trailer of G.I. Jane before the lesson or as a warm-up activity.

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NFT explained by a Kid

Level: B1 and up Time: 90 min

This lesson was designed for my teenage students but it will work with other age groups provided they don’t know much about the topic.

NFT has become a craze in the online market. NFT can be tied to any digital asset such as video clips, songs etc. You can turn pretty much any unique bundle of information into an NFT, but they’ve really taken off in the art world. A digital NFT picture was sold for over $58 million and an NFT tweet for $3 mln. There is a lot of controversy around NFTs regarding copyright, forgery and even natural environment issues. Which makes it a perfect topic for a lesson 😉

It took me a while to find the right material for this topic and I think that Handsome Blader has done better job than CNN, Bloomberg and CNBC put together!!!

You’ve got a slideshow, Answer Key and a quizlet with vocabulary flashcards if you decide that your SS need it: https://quizlet.com/_altjeo?x=1jqt&i=sje7e

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