For Teachers: Instant IELTS Lessons
Ready-to-teach 90-minute IELTS lessons. Walk into class with everything you need: a stage-by-stage plan, the learner lesson and photocopiable activities. No planning, and it works in a classroom or online.
📘 What is in every Instant Lesson
- Teacher’s Notes with five clear stages: Introduction, Presentation, Controlled Practice, Free Practice and Extension
- Realistic timings, and what to cut or set as homework if you run late
- The full learner lesson to print or share on screen
- Photocopiable activities: cards, jumbled sentences, word squares, checklists and more
- Pair and small-group work at every stage, with notes for teaching online
- Answers, a board plan and the mistakes to listen for
🗂️ The lesson plans
20 natural phrases for habits, experiences and recent changes, with a Food and Drink Word Square.
FREE
Recognise the five essay types, plan quickly and write a matching thesis. Drills, jumbled sentences and a guided peer check.
£1.99
20 everyday phrases for Speaking Parts 1 and 3, plus the present simple for timetables and stories. Matches a free learner lesson.
£1.99
A one-minute planning routine and timed rounds in threes, so every learner speaks. Includes 12 new task cards.
£1.99
Tell FALSE from NOT GIVEN and prove every answer. Includes a detective case file and a classroom courtroom.
£1.99
Follow the route, wait for the change and check every gap with grammar. Includes a sports centre information gap.
£1.99
✍️ Written by an experienced teacher
Every lesson is written by Kevin Hardwicke, who taught English and worked as a Director of Studies for 28 years, and is a former IELTS examiner. The lessons use a lexical approach: learners learn useful phrases they can adapt to talk and write about their own lives.
📄 Photocopying
You may copy the learner lesson and the activity pages for use with your own classes. Please do not resell them or upload them to other sites.
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