Dear students, As this chapter comes to a close, I want to say a big, heartfelt thank you. Many of you have kept going despite tight schedules, demanding jobs, and family responsibilities—and I admire your dedication more than words can say. Your effort, humour, and resilience have made this journey meaningful. Teaching you has brought…… Continue reading Still Wearing the Smile You Gave Me
Whether you’re talking about a crime scene, a witness, or the moment something happened, relative clauses help add detail and make your English more precise. This cheat sheet and interactive quiz will guide you through the most common types, including defining and non-defining clauses, as well as useful relative adverbs like where, when, why—and even…… Continue reading 🕵B1/B2 Relative Clauses Cheat Sheet – Grammar for Crime & Beyond!
📚 This Lesson at a Glance This lesson explores the controversial question of whether young offenders should be punished like adults. Using an authentic video report and an adapted text, students will build key vocabulary related to youth crime, discuss the root causes and consequences of rising violence among teenagers, and practise their opinion-writing skills.…… Continue reading B2 Should Young Offenders Be Punished Like Adults?
Here’s a dark and dramatic vocabulary + speaking activity that will bring some serious atmosphere to your lesson on crime and punishment. Designed for B2 learners, this short video quiz blends vocabulary revision, collocations, and open-ended discussion prompts—all wrapped in a moody, suspenseful tone that grabs students’ attention from the very first second. 🔦 Expect…… Continue reading B2 Speaking Activity: Crime & Punishment (with Suspense!)
We’ve all heard the debate: Paper or screen? Print or digital? But have you ever thought about it in the most basic of places — the toilet? That’s exactly where this brilliant French commercial takes us. The short, hilarious ad shows a man trying to replace every form of paper in the house with a…… Continue reading 📱💩 Toilet Paper vs Apps? A Perfect Warmer to Talk About Paper and Digital Formats
I asked Chat to create a joke about passives, and this is the result. I think it’s brilliant and couldn’t stop rolling around in laughter. What do you think? Here’s a handy new cheat sheet to help you get a solid grasp of passive structures at a glance.This guide has been carefully crafted to summarise…… Continue reading B1-B2 Passive cheat sheet!
In this post, my students are going to practise the third conditional. They’ll listen to one of those delightfully tasteless radio contests where three speakers share their worst holiday disasters – I’m sure some of you can relate to. At the end of each story, there’s a moral… wrapped neatly in a third conditional sentence.…… Continue reading B2 Travel Mishaps & 3rd Conditional
Are your students tired of grammar gap-fills? Mine too. So I created a dramatic survival activity to practise the second conditional in a way they’ll never forget… unless they get eaten by a tiger first. The Setup The topic was “Survival” and the target grammar was the second conditional. I prepared six short, horrible anecdotes…… Continue reading B2 Survival English: Second Conditionals gone wild
How do you feel when it’s pouring down with rain?How does spring make you feel?Do you feel a tingling sense of excitement as you see the days lengthening?Or do you enjoy feeling gloomy on a grey day? Have you ever wondered how much the weather affects your mood? I’m sure your answer will be, “Yes,…… Continue reading B2 Weather Personality Quiz
If you read or heard “Plastic pollution affects our health and the health of the planet.”, what would come to your mind? Would you stop to think about all the plastic items you possess or threw away just yesterday? You might already know how plastic impacts the environment. However, could you reduce this material from…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking About Plastic in the Ocean
