holiday

Lesson plans

Employee holiday gifts

Vocabulary: expressions related to employee appreciation (employee morale, job satisfacion, work-life balance, year-end bonus)
Speaking: giving and receiving gifts at work, company policies about receiving gifts, employee appreciation ideas
Video: Best employee holiday gifts for every budget

B1 / B2

Business

5:00

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Day of the Dead

Vocabulary: words related to the Day of the Dead
Word formation: celebrate, symbolize, die, remember, offer
Speaking: quiz, conversation questions

A2 / B1

Lifestyle

5.30

an exhausted person resting their head on their keyboard with a stone with "back to work" written on it

Returning to work after a vacation

Vocabulary: idioms and expressions (to get back into the groove of things, back to the grind, post-vacation fatigue, vacation blues, hit the ground running)
Video: Getting over your post-vacation slump
Speaking: conversation questions, brinstorming, role-play

B2 / C1

Business

4:00

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Travel destinations

*Formerly “Travelling in 2022”

Vocabulary: adjectives (breathtaking, crystal clear, bustling)
Functional language: evaluating experiences
Phrasal verbs: travelling (embark on, kick off, get away)

B1 / B2

Lifestyle

3:40

mezcal or mezcal paloma cocktail with grapefruit

Summer cocktails

Vocabulary: cocktail preparation tools
Video: “5 summer cocktails in 5 minutes”
Speaking: role-plays, conversation questions

B1 / B2

Lifestyle

4:43

a young man lounging on a bed on a balcony

Are staycations the new vacations?

Vocabulary: staycation ideas
Grammar: talking about the future (future simple, future with “going to”, and present continuous)
Speaking: conversation questions, creating and continuing a dialogue, evaluating ideas, making plans

A2 / B1

Lifestyle

1:47

Easter

Vocabulary: Easter
Reading: Holy Week – key days and Easter traditions in Spain, The US and The Czech Republic
Video: Bet you didn’t know: Easter traditions

B1 / B2

Lifestyle

3:09

a man giving a figt to a girl who looks surprised and excited

The business of St. Valentine’s Day

Vocabulary: adjectives to describe St. Valentine’s Day
Vocabulary: money (cash in on, capitalise on, splurge, splash the cash)
Grammar: linking words (whether, despite, rather than, while)