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Video-based lesson plans

Whether your lessons are online or in-person, The English Flows’ lesson plans are the ultimate time-saver for ESL teachers working with adult and Business English students. Cut down on prep work and free up your time for what truly matters – guiding, coaching, and meeting your students' unique needs. Our current and highly relatable topics will keep your students engaged before, during, and after the class. We add 7-8 new video-based ESL lesson plans each month. Ignite their curiosity and inspire them to explore the English language further!

a woman surrounded by plants sneezing and a slogan "Are your seasonal allergies getting wprse every year?"

Seasonal allergies

Vocabulary: allergies and symptoms
Collocations: allergies (suffer from allergies, trigger an allergy, have an allergy, treat an allergy)
Idioms: keep at bay, wreak havoc on, kick into overdrive

B2 / C1

Environment, Health

7:00

letter cubes arrange to read april fool's day, and a slogan "best april fool's day pranks and hoaxes"

April Fool’s Day

Speaking: Conversation questions about humour, pranks, and April Fool’s Day, discussion quoets, describing photos, evaluating pranks and jokes
Vocabulary: humour, pranks and jokes (prank, fool, fall for, improv, stand-up comedy, hoax, adjectives to describe pranks)
Videos: “Why do we celebrate April Fool’s Day?”, and “Best April Fool’s Day jokes and pranks of all time”

B2 / C1

Lifestyle

6:00

a photo og a tuplip field and a slogan "what's your favourite spring flower?"

The beauty of spring flower gardens

Vocabulary: 10 spring flowers (e.g. snowdrop, daffodil, hyacinth, tulip, crocus, poppy)
Vocabulary: gardening (e.g. to sow, to propagate, to fertilise, to repot)
Video: Ultimate guide 2024: Plan your Keukenhof trip

B1 / B2

Environment

2:27

a clock going from 2am to 3am and a slogan - should daylight saving time be abolished?

Daylight saving time

Vocabulary: sleep (a late riser, a morning person, a night owl, oversleep)
Confusing expressions: in time and on time
Speaking: conversation questions, debate

B1 / B2

Health

3:20

Easter basket with dyed Easter eggs and a slogan - how do you celebrate easter

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 with his daughter mopping the floor and a slogan - let's do some sprng cleaning!

Spring cleaning

Vocabulary: cleaning supplies and decluttering (get rid of, give away, throw away, clutter-free)
Reading: organisation methods (Marie Kondo, The FlyLady, The Four-Box method)
Speaking: Conversation questions, creating a spring cleaning checklist

B1 / B2

Lifestyle

4:37