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Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas? -    BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content Remember the last time you sat around a camp fire. Did you wonder what caused that crackling sound? Or why the flames were thin on top and fat at the bottom? Normally, we are too busy chatting, laughing and toasting marshmallows to care.  In this B2+ worksheet, students will  Study a video about the science of campfires; Learn fire-related idioms;  Do a short exercise about quantifiers (much, many, a lot of, a few);  Find the correct punchlines for pun-ny jokes about fire; Educational materials shouldn't be paywalled. Show your support for my ESL content by  buying me a coffee!     Lesson objectives: 1) To find two nouns and three adjectives from a vocabulary list that do NOT  describe a photo of a burning forest. 2) To complete a short exercise about quantifiers (i.e. much, many, a lot of, a few). 3) To understand nuance and puns with three fire-related jok

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Why the human back is a design disaster -    BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content Back pain is a uniquely human complaint. It is the price of standing up straight. One scientist said balancing our big heads on top of our vertebrae is like trying to stack 26 teacups and saucers. In short, the human back is an engineering nightmare. In this B2+ worksheet, students will  Learn back-related idioms;  Do a short exercise about transport prepositions;  Match six phrasal verbs (to BACK out of something, to BACK into something, to BACK down etc.) with corresponding pictures  Study a video and article about back pain.  Educational materials shouldn't be paywalled. Show your support for my ESL content by  buying me a coffee!     Lesson objectives: 1) To match phrasal verbs with pictures (to BACK away, to BACK down, to BACK something up, etc.) 2) To complete a short exercise about transport prepositions (i.e. the difference between "in"

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): What do your fingerprints say about you? -  BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content Police have long been able to identify suspects from their fingerprints. Now, scientists are pioneering a technique that tells police what suspects were touching before the crime - be it drugs, food, petrol or any number of other substances that could help detectives piece together a profile. In this B2+ worksheet, students will learn finger-related idioms; they will revise subject, object and reflexive pronouns; and they will match common hand gestures with their names. They will also put their comprehension skills to work on an article and video about how scientists are pioneering new fingerprint technology. Educational materials shouldn't be paywalled. Show your support for my ESL content by  buying me a coffee!     Lesson objectives: 1) To match six hand gestures with their names (to flip someone the bird, to do jazz hands, to give someone a thumbs up

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Why frogs sometimes fall from the sky -  BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content The weather forecast for today: cloudy, cold and with a chance of frog rain. Frog and fish downpours have been widely reported across the world for hundreds of years. But is there any scientifc explanation? In this B2+ worksheet, students will study frog-related puns, a poem and rain-related idioms. They will also put their comprehension skills to work on an article and video about frog rain. Educational materials shouldn't be paywalled. Show your support for my ESL content by  buying me a coffee! Lesson objectives: 1) To understand nuance and puns with six frog-related jokes. 2) To practise pronunciation and comprehension by reading a tongue-twister poem about a two-toed tree toad (who loved a three-toed ground toad).  3) To explain the mystery of frog rain, using information collected from a short Sci-Show video. 4) To expand the students' repertoire o