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📦 Behind the Scenes of Modern Life — Passive Voice
Tap “buy” on a Sunday night and a box is on your step by Tuesday. What happens in between is a story nobody sees — and it is told almost entirely in the passive. Students build the core tense with verbs like made, grown, assembled, packaged, shipped, tracked, scanned, stored, collected, recycled, and repaired, then put it to work in The Sneaker Journey dialogue, a Life of a T-Shirt factory tour lecture, The Delivery Problem role play, three critical thinking sets (Online Deliveries, How Food Gets to Us, What Happens to Recycling), a Where Were Our Things Made? graph worksheet, and a Product Wars finale where teams design and pitch their own product • Pre-Intermediate • 2026
📱 The Hidden Life of Products — Passive Voice
A recall notice lands, and suddenly nobody can say who made the battery. This lesson follows a product backwards through the supply chain and stretches the passive across its full range — perfect, modal, future and continuous — with vocabulary like mass-produced, sourced, distributed, monitored, recalled, refurbished, discontinued, automated, outsourced, and counterfeited. Activities include The Recall dialogue between Lena and Marco, a How Your Smartphone Is Made lecture, The Replacement grammar role play, three critical thinking sets (Automation and Jobs, Who Is Responsible When Products Fail?, Supply-Chain Transparency), a Life of a T-Shirt flow diagram, and a six-card Talk Zone interview on the product journey • Intermediate • 2026
🌍 A Changing World — Present Continuous
Late-night bars are winding down. Secondhand shops are booming. Everyone is cutting back on something. Describing a world mid-change is what the present continuous does best, and this collection lifts the tense into real trend language: catching on, taking off, cutting back on, phasing out, keeping up with, branching out, moving away from, adapting to, downsizing, and picking up speed. Students work through The Citywalk dialogue between Yuki and Marc, a How Life Is Changing lecture, a Café Update role play contrasting stative and continuous verbs, three critical thinking sets (Economic Pressures, The Attention Economy, Cities in Transition), a graph on how people are paying by age group, and a What’s Happening Right Now? Talk Zone • Intermediate • 2026
🥤 The Beverage Wars
A 70-year partnership. A surprise new rival. McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and Red Bull are suddenly fighting over what goes in your cup — and this lesson tells the story at two levels. The Pre-Intermediate version builds core business vocabulary like rival, supplier, launch a product, boost sales, loyal, exotic, and innovate, while the Intermediate version levels up to market share, brand loyalty, saturated, diversify, flagship product, and joint venture. Each version includes a dialogue, a listening quiz on brand loyalty, a grammar role play, three critical thinking sets, a graph worksheet, and a Talk Zone meeting — and the Pre-Intermediate pack ends with a Launch Your Own Drink! capstone where teams pitch a new drink Shark Tank style • Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate • 2026
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🤝 Projects & Teamwork — Workplace Idioms Lesson
Every team has an elephant in the room nobody wants to name, and a colleague whose head is in the clouds. This rich set of activities teaches the idioms people really use to talk about projects and teamwork — put all your eggs in one basket, hit the nail on the head, digging yourself into a hole, a can of worms, a hot potato, couch potato, and every cloud has a silver lining. Highlights include a dialogue between Saskia and Milo weighing up a risky new product, a Tough Team Meeting grammar role play between a manager and team leader, a chart reading Where Project Time Is Lost, and a Run Your Own Business Talk Zone • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026
🎯 Strategizing — Workplace Idioms Lesson
How do you turn a vague idea into a real game plan? Before a team can act, it has to strategize — and English has a whole toolkit of idioms for it. Learners practise expressions like map out, test the waters, get the ball rolling, in the pipeline, play it by ear, a long shot, take stock, weigh the pros and cons, plan B, and down the road. The lesson runs on a dialogue between Viktor and Dalia debating an AI rollout, a Strategizing: Advanced Modals role play between a strategy consultant and a startup founder, chart tasks (Our App Launch Game Plan; StudyBot AI’s First-Year Road Map), and a Strategy Planning Meeting Talk Zone • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026
👟 The True Cost of Your Sneakers
A $100 pair of sneakers costs about $25 to make — so where does the rest of your money go? Students follow the shoe from an Asian factory floor to the U.S. store shelf, weighing cheap overseas labor and low wages against the push to reshore production and bring jobs back. They debate whether automation and robotics can ever close the price gap, why a real Nike plant in Mexico shut down within three years, and the unethical conditions that can hide behind a cheap price tag, finishing with a Sneaker Industry Jobs Talk Zone (Robotics Engineer, Footwear Designer, Quality Control Inspector) • Intermediate and above • 2026
🍽️ Restaurants and Food Service
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (book a table, starter, try the special, too salty, leave a tip, ask for the bill), listening quiz on what makes a great restaurant, dialogue gap-fill on booking a Saturday night, vocabulary review, collocations, word formation, opinion completion, 3 critical thinking worksheets (customer view, running a successful restaurant, future of dining), quantifiers grammar role play (waiter and customer), pronunciation exercises, linking and emphasizing practice, stacked bar chart on customer spending, customer complaints chart, Customer Complaints Desk Talk Zone (Cold Food, Slow Service, Wrong Order, Loud Music) • High Elementary and above • 2026
⌚ Health and Wellbeing Tracking
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (blood flow, stress levels, heart rate, express yourself, concentrate, escape), listening quiz, dialogue gap-fill on fitness trackers, vocabulary review, collocations, parts of speech, modals grammar exercise, opinion completion, 3 critical thinking worksheets (daily tracking, preferred tools, motivation), modals grammar role play on sleep and mood tracking, linking and emphasizing pronunciation, bar chart on activity benefits, reading comprehension, main idea worksheet, Wellness Coach Consultation Talk Zone (Sleep Reset, Stress Escape, Mood Booster, Concentration Coach) • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026
💰 Psychology of Money
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (acquire, inherit, persuasive, destructive behavior, wears off, worth), listening quiz, dialogue gap-fill, vocabulary review, collocations, opinion completion, 3 critical thinking worksheets, gerunds & infinitives grammar role play (financial therapist & young professional), pronunciation exercises, graph reading, Money Personality Quiz, Talk Zone conversation menu • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026
🏆 Success and Failure
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (measure success, determination, give up, my own business, achieve your dreams), listening quiz, dialogue gap-fill, vocabulary review, collocations, word formation, semantic gradation, opinion completion, 2 critical thinking worksheets, modal verbs grammar role play (interviewer & success expert), pronunciation exercises, graph reading, Talk Zone scene cards • High Elementary – Pre-Intermediate • 2026
👜 Fake Fashion
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (authentic, counterfeit, luxury, logo, inspect stitching, verify a product), listening quiz, dialogue gap-fill, vocabulary review, collocations, opinion completion, 3 critical thinking worksheets, conditionals grammar role play (market seller & customer), pronunciation exercises, graph reading, Talk Zone scenario cards & Detective Board activity • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026
💊 Fake Health and Wellness Products
Brainstorm, visual vocabulary matching (supplement, misleading claims, side effects, contaminated, counterfeit medicines, peptides), listening quiz, dialogue gap-fill, vocabulary review, collocations, opinion completion, 3 critical thinking worksheets, word formation grammar role play (pharmacist & customer), pronunciation exercises, graph reading, Talk Zone scenario cards & Detective Board activity • Pre-Intermediate and above • 2026