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Travel

Inspire wanderlust and prepare your students for real travel with these esl lessons covering airports, hotels, and destinations. Topics explore packing strategies, culture shock, and travel hacks. Your learners practice travel vocabulary and discuss different experiences. Ideal for making practical travel vocabulary engaging and useful.

Four friends eat together outdoors in a mountain valley — a cover image for an A2 vacation lesson about countryside travel.

My Last Vacation

Vacation vocabulary, listening activities, and speaking tasks in this A2 lesson plan for adult English learners.

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Moving Abroad

She saw a TikTok and moved to Tokyo. This A2 moving abroad lesson uses Ashley's real story to teach vocabulary about going abroad and expat life.

A person sleeping peacefully in bed — perfect image to introduce the B1 lesson plan on sleepcations.

Who Needs Sleepcation?

Sleepcation lesson for B1 students covers luxury sleep trends, hotel vocabulary, and real solutions to common sleep problems.

B1 English lesson plan featured image showing white van on scenic coastal road during golden hour for Road Trip to a New Life

Road Trip to a New Life

A man quits his job, ends a relationship, and drives to Norway. This B1 lesson plan builds on his story with vocabulary, debates, and real discussion.

Urban neighborhood with classic buildings and staircases, a setting for discussing culture shock and different living environments.

Culture Shock

This B1 culture shock lesson plan uses real TikTok videos and culture shock vocabulary to help intermediate students talk about new experiences.

A doctor wearing a white coat and holding a clipboard stands in icy water surrounded by snow-covered mountains. Image for a B2 ESL lesson from betterclass titled “The Swedish Prescription,” exploring health habits, cold exposure therapy, and Scandinavian lifestyle trends.

The Swedish Prescription

Sweden as medicine? This B2 lesson uses a creative tourism video to explore wellness vocabulary, modern stress, and nature as therapy.

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Staying at the Hotel

Tour the Muji Hotel in Tokyo, practice hotel vocabulary, and write guest reviews in this B2 lesson about travel and accommodation.

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Getting Around

A2 lesson on transportation and giving directions. Students learn bus, train, subway vocabulary and practice phrases like turn left and go straight.

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Packing for a Trip

A2 packing lesson with travel vocabulary from packing cubes to sunscreen. Students read organizing tips and create lists for Paris, Bali, Seoul trips.

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Inside a Train Ride

Explore German train culture, delays, and etiquette at B2. Video about passenger habits, vocabulary for stations and carriages, cross-cultural comparisons.

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Climbing Mount Everest

B2 lesson about climbing Mount Everest with vocab for altitude, gear, and training. Includes real audio from mountain guides and discussions about risk.

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Economy or Business Class?

Flight vocabulary, short videos on seat classes, and a dream airline project power this B1 ESL lesson plan on air travel.