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Cities

Bring urban culture to life with english lessons exploring housing, neighborhoods, and what makes cities work. Topics range from architecture styles to the global housing crisis to living in specific cities worldwide. Your students get vocabulary for city navigation and deeper conversations about urban challenges. Solid choice for contemporary, relevant discussions.

Small plane flying over countryside for B2 aviation lesson plan about pilots living in specialized flying communities

Living With Planes

B2 aviation lesson about Air Park, where pilots live with planes. Includes video, vocabulary, discussion, and real aircraft shopping presentation task.

Winter power outage at night showing darkened neighborhood skyline - upper-intermediate ESL lesson plan about blackout survival preparedness

Surviving a Power Outage

Upper-intermediate ESL lesson plan about preparing for winter blackouts with reading, vocabulary practice, survival kit planning, and debate activities.

A modern city bench with metal arm dividers, symbolizing hostile architecture and exclusion in urban design.

Hostile Architecture

C1 ESL lesson on hostile architecture. Explore urban design, vocabulary, and debate how cities shape comfort, access, and belonging.

Neighborhood, London, esl lesson plan, pre-intermediate, betterclass

My Neighborhood

A2 students learn neighborhood vocabulary, describe local places, and practice listening with this lesson covering twelve common shops and services.

urban gardening esl lesson b1

Urban Gardening

B1 urban gardening lesson follows Alessandro's London front yard transformation. Plant vocabulary, sustainability discussion, video about nature connection.

Living in Amsterdam

Bikes, rain, and daily routines in Amsterdam come alive in this B1 ESL lesson plan with video, vocabulary, and city comparisons.

brutalist esl lesson architecture

Brutalist Architecture

Berlin's boldest concrete buildings drive vocabulary, video analysis, and debate in this C1 ESL lesson plan on Brutalism.

housing crisis lesson

Global Housing Crisis

Teach housing affordability, income vocabulary, and policy debate with this C1 lesson plan on the global housing crisis.

city esl lesson a2

The City Where I Live

Help your A2 students describe where they live with this city vocabulary lesson plan covering adjectives, places, and neighborhoods.

energy power consumption esl lesson

How Much Power Does Humanity Need?

From flipping a switch to nuclear fusion, this C1 lesson plan answers the question: how much power does humanity need?

overtourism esl lesson b2

Tourists, Go Home

Why are locals saying "tourists, go home"? B2 students explore overtourism through video, case studies, and a vocabulary lesson.

city esl lesson

Is It Even a City?

Teach your B1 students sarcasm and exaggeration with a funny video roasting Oslo. Great for speaking, writing, and city vocabulary.