Free Lesson Plans for the ELT Classroom
A growing collection of ready-to-use lessons from A Journey in TEFL, drawn from real classroom experience. Bookmark this page, it gets updated as new lessons go up.
Art & Visual Lessons
- “They Can’t Cancel the Spring”: Teaching Hockney’s Woldgate — a lesson built around one of Hockney’s iPad drawings, with speculative language and creative writing
- One Painting, One Lesson — the series this lesson belongs to, more art-based lessons coming
Song Lessons
- Junk by Paul McCartney: Song Mix & Match
- Thank You for the Music by ABBA
- Lemon Tree: An Activity for Tomorrow’s Class
- You’ve Got to Learn
- When I’m 64
- The Sound of Silence
- Our House – Madness
- Songs That Represent Me — a reflective speaking/writing activity using students’ own song choices
Short Story Lessons
- Joyce in Class — a lesson plan for “Eveline” from Dubliners
Poetry & Reflection
- Choices We Make: A Poetry Lesson
- A Letter to the Future
- A Lesson on a TED Talk: 7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs
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