Decode the blueprint for success! Challenge your students to evaluate the roles of hard work, luck, and connections through iconic entrepreneur stories and a targeted listening task. Learners unpack high-impact vocabulary (beat the odds, pull strings, get a foot in the door) and practise functional language for debating, including expressing opinions, softening disagreement, and backing up arguments.
Discover what really drives success—IQ or EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Students debate dilemmas comparing ‘book smarts’ and ‘people smarts’, practise key emotional intelligence vocabulary (bottle up, tune in, bounce back, clear the air), and watch authentic video on emotional intelligence. Wrap up with reflective discussions to test students’ emotional intelligence in personal and professional situations.
Explore the thrill and challenges of Couchsurfing! Engage your students with daring conversation starters, master practical phrasal verbs (put up with, show around, put oneself out) and analyse real host and guest experiences through authentic video tasks. Wrap up with scenario-based role-plays where students must navigate tricky social situations as either a guest or a host.
Engage your students in an interactive exploration of first impressions and personality traits. Watch authentic video clips from Friends and street interviews to analyse body language, energy, and humor. Build practical vocabulary for describing personalities, master adjectives and expressions to talk about impressions. Finish with engaging discussions to reflect on your own first impressions and the traits you value in others.
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Students watch a psychology-based video on how brands influence identity and decision-making, including a Duke University study on brand loyalty. They practise comparatives, superlatives, and emphasis and build practical brand-description vocabulary. The lesson wraps up with a brand showdown debate that gets everyone speaking, persuading, and thinking critically.
Navigate the chaos of our digital lives! Engage your students with real-life tech problem scenarios, master natural vocabulary and expressions for describing device issues (e.g. acting up, freezing up), and analyse authentic dialogues to see how tech glitches are solved. Wrap up with practical role-plays and discussions that get everyone troubleshooting, advising, and sharing their own tech experiences.
Explore how our screen habits shape stress, focus, and relationships! Engage your students with a personal screen-time self-assessment, master natural verbs and collocations for talking about digital wellbeing, and analyse real digital detox experiences through an article. Wrap up with practical strategies and debates on the realism of ‘going off the grid’ in today’s digital world.
Get students thinking critically as they explore how smartphones, googling and screen time shape memory, focus, and learning. Using real research and an authentic video on cognitive offloading and screen time effects, learners build practical tech-related vocabulary and debate whether technology makes us smarter or dumber—while sharing real-life experiences and opinions.
Discover what really shapes a long, healthy life! Explore how genes and daily habits influence longevity, master natural health and lifestyle vocabulary, and calculate your own longevity score. Watch videos on Blue Zones and Ikaria and discuss practical ways to live longer, healthier, and happier. Wrap up with a debate on whether the Blue Zone lifestyle is realistic for modern city living.
Explore how optimism and pessimism shape the way we see the world! Engage your students with real-life scenarios, master natural expressions for reacting positively and negatively, listen to authentic interviews about people’s daily outlooks and podcasts on factors that influence optimism, and wrap up with a lively debate on whether pessimists are just realists.
