The Statue of Liberty was stolen last night sometime between 6pm and 8pm. At 6pm commuter Jack Brown says he saw it glinting in the sunset and at 8pm, NYPD officer Maria Guevara went to check on the Statue and found it missing. Every one of your students is a suspect and they have to come up with alibis to demonstrate where they were.
Alibi is a fun lesson plan that gets students talking and asking questions. Find out who your future CIA or KGB agents are by seeing how seriously …Continue

Students love role plays and interesting situations. Everyday English is important but students often react well to unusual situations too. Survive! is a lesson plan that makes students imagine that they have survived a plane crash and must decide which items they will need to survive. Of course the fun of the lesson is that different students have different ideas of what survival means.
Does it mean finding their way to civilization? Keeping comfortable until wild animals kill them or they die of hunger? Or waiting it out til rescue planes …Continue

Beauty Inc is a fun role play for students involving a meeting between a large corporation and victims of its faulty products. Great for large or medium sized classrooms and a great way to get students talking, particularly more advanced students who get bored with drilling and answering exercises. Encourages students to be creative while introducing a real life situation. What do you do when a company sells bad products that don’t work? Or worse, turn you into a freak?

Ever since ESL Flow, I’ve been getting a lot of traffic to my lesson plans. One of the most popular lesson plans is called culture shock and gets students talking about different habits and manners in different cultures.
Since it’s getting so many hits, I’ve typed up a related lesson: Cultural Role Play, which is basically adapted for ESL lessons from a Peace Corps exercise.
It’s a fun exercise where you give students one of two different cultural roles to play with very different standards of behavior and ideas of what …Continue

One of my favorite lesson plans to teach is At the Restaurant. I compiled it from a series of sources like The British Council and TEFL.net and edited the activities and worksheets to make them more fun and accessible and so that everything relates together into one big lesson.
So if you’re looking for a complete lesson plan about food and restaurants that features vocab building, discussion, reading, cultural notes and a great role play that can be targeted to beginners, intermediate or advanced learners, take a look at At …Continue

If you want a quick online test to check your knowledge of Parts of the Car. Fill in the names of the parts of a car, check your answers as you work and get your final score. For teachers, the test is printable to use a worksheet in class.
Have You Ever, Would You Ever is a list of questions on what you have done and what you would do. Under what circumstances would you steal? Or live in another country? What do you do when you can’t sleep? Great for …Continue