📝 Grammar Lessons

📬 Get Complete Versions with Answer Keys

Subscribe to ESLflow on Substack for full exercises, audio files, and comprehensive materials!

🕵️ It Must Have Been a Deepfake: Modals of Deduction

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Fact or Fake • Four Skills

A shark swimming down a flooded motorway. The Pope in a designer puffer jacket. Millions of people believed them, so what really happened? This four-skills lesson teaches modals of deduction for guessing about the past (may, might, could, must have + past participle, and couldn’t have), with vocabulary like deepfake, hoax, scam, rumour, clickbait, conspiracy theory, fact-check, viral video, genuine, verified, and suspicious. Students work through short exchanges and pair work, pronunciation practice on the reduced “musta” and “coulda”, a Real or Fake? podcast where an expert explains three callers’ stories, a Hoaxbusters: Fact or Fake? reading that checks three viral stories, and a Fact or Fake? Talk Zone with scenes like The Floating Castle and The Perfect Reviews.

✂️ Where Did You Get That Done? Have / Get Something Done

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Getting Things Done • Four Skills

When did you last cut your own hair? Most of us pay someone else to fix, dye, pierce or alter things, and that is exactly where the causative is used. This collection teaches have / get something done across all four skills, with vocabulary like have a phone screen repaired, get your ears pierced, have a jacket altered, get your teeth whitened, have your hair dyed, and have a car serviced. Activities include a Have You Ever Had …? class survey, a conversation and pair work, pronunciation work on the weak schwa sound, a New Look, Big Mistake podcast about a regrettable tattoo, hair that turned orange and a cheap phone repair, a reading on the worldwide Repair Café movement, Don’t Throw It Away — Get It Fixed, and a Getting Things Done Talk Zone.

🏙️ If I Were in Charge: Second Conditional

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • City Life • Four Skills

Free buses. Trees on every street. A beach in the middle of town. What would you change if you ran your city for a day? This lesson uses that question to teach the second conditional (if + past simple, would / could / might + verb) through all four skills, with vocabulary like public transport, air quality, green spaces, bike lanes, the cost of living, and nightlife, plus word partners such as heavy traffic, high rent, affordable housing, and a lively neighbourhood. Students practise a conversation about a new rooftop flat, the reduced “wouldja” in fast speech, and a City Life: What’s Your Problem? podcast about noisy neighbours and a cancelled bus route. There is also a reading on Paris and the 15-minute city and a City Life Talk Zone.

✈️ He’d Never Taken a Flight: Past Perfect

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Travel Stories • Four Skills

A missed last train, a hotel bed given to someone else, a phone that died in the snow: the best travel stories always start with something that had already gone wrong. These carefully sequenced activities teach the past perfect (had + past participle, with by the time, already, never, and before) across all four skills. Vocabulary for describing people includes exhausted, careless, nervous, patient, cheerful, and in a hurry, plus adverbs like luckily, unfortunately, suddenly, and surprisingly. Highlights include a conversation about a night on a hotel-lobby sofa, the reduced ‘d in fast speech, and a Travel Nightmares phone-in with three callers and their advice. A reading follows a traveller who visited all 203 countries in ten years without a single flight, and a Travel Nightmares Talk Zone finishes the lesson.

🏃 What Have You Been Up To? Present Perfect Continuous

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Hobbies and Free Time

Run clubs. Blind-box toys. Matcha at home. Hobbies change fast, and the question we ask old friends never does: “So, what have you been up to?” This lesson uses that question to teach the present perfect continuous through the free-time activities people are actually doing now, with vocabulary like going to a run club, collecting blind-box toys, making short videos, streaming video games, doing volunteer work, learning a language, and doing Pilates. Students work through a picture vocabulary page with audio, word partners, a conversation and pair work, pronunciation practice on turning statements into questions, a listening task built around A Podcast about Hobbies, a reading called Tech Life: A Day at the Drone Races, and a Mini Class Survey, What Have You Been Doing?

📺 I Wonder What It’s About: Indirect Questions

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Shows and Streaming

“Do you know if it’s any good?” “I wonder who’s in it.” Talking about what to watch is where indirect questions live, and this collection puts them to work on the shows students already stream. Key vocabulary covers K-drama, reality show, documentary, livestream, true-crime podcast, game show, and short drama, plus word partners like binge-watch a whole series, skip the ads, stream a live match, and follow a creator. Activities include short exchanges and pair work, a grammar page on indirect questions, pronunciation work on the reduction of do and can, a three-scene listening drama, Secrets at the Café, a reading about internet celebrities, From a Bedroom to Billions of Views, and a What’s On? Talk Zone.

🎨 It Was Painted by Kusama: Passives

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Art and Museums

A museum is a building full of passive sentences: this was painted in 1889, that was discovered in a tomb, these were made by hand. This set of exercises teaches the passive where it sounds most natural, surrounded by art and museums, with vocabulary like mural, pottery, portrait, sculpture, AI art, immersive art, and abstract painting, and word partners such as paint a self-portrait, visit an exhibition, and take a pottery class. The lesson moves through a gallery conversation and pair work, a passives grammar page, pronunciation of reduced don’t and did, a listening tour of Amazing Museums with a Listening Plus on the Grand Egyptian Museum, a reading on a famous artist, A Life Covered in Dots, and an At the Gallery Talk Zone.

⌚ Gotta Have It! Infinitives and Gerunds of Purpose

Added: 2026 • Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2–B1) • Wearables and Gadgets

Why do you wear it? To track your sleep. For counting steps. Every gadget comes with a reason, and that reason is the grammar of this lesson: infinitives and gerunds of purpose. Students learn the devices first, with fitness tracker, smartwatch, wireless earbuds, smart ring, VR headset, power bank, smart glasses, and foldable phone, then the word partners that go with them, like charge the battery, track your sleep, and download an update. From there the collection builds through short exchanges and pair work, a Saying Why We Use Something grammar page, pronunciation of the reduced have got to, a listening review show called Tech Check: Three New Gadgets, a reading on smart tech that helps, More Than Counting Steps, and a Gotta Have It! Talk Zone.

📝 Present Simple: Grammar for Modern Life

Added: 2026 • Levels: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate (two versions)

Wake up, scroll, order coffee on an app, work from home, stream a show — what does a typical day actually look like in 2026? This lesson tells the story of modern routines at two levels. The Pre-Intermediate version keeps the grammar simple, practising the present simple of to be and to do across everyday topics like daily routines, online shopping, digital services, and online habits, while the Intermediate version levels up to phrasal language like unwind, juggle, rely on, run errands, cut down on, and keep track of. Each version includes a Modern Life dialogue, a Moving Day grammar role play, critical-thinking worksheets on digital life, a graph worksheet, linking-and-emphasizing pronunciation, and a Where People Hang Out Talk Zone — and the Intermediate version adds a third critical-thinking set and a lecture, How Busy People Stay Sane.

🔄 Present Continuous: Capturing a World in Motion

Levels: High Elementary–Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate (two versions)

Cafés opening. Trends shifting. Young adults rewriting how they live and connect. Two versions capture that motion at different levels. The Pre-Intermediate lesson builds the core tense with everyday verbs — walking, cooking, riding, spending, staying, waiting, trying — through a Modern Life Dialogue, a New Café Opening stative vs continuous role play, three critical thinking sets (Changing Trends, Technology and Social Life Now, What Are Young Adults Changing?), and a What’s Happening Right Now? Talk Zone. A Changing World (Intermediate) lifts the same tense into trend language like catching on, taking off, cutting back on, phasing out, branching out, downsizing, winding down, and picking up speed, with The Citywalk dialogue between Yuki and Marc, a How Life Is Changing lecture, a Café Update role play, critical thinking on economic pressures, the attention economy and cities in transition, and a graph on how people are paying by age group.

⏰ Present Perfect: Modern Life Up to Now

Added: 2026 • Levels: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate (two versions)

“I’ve lost my phone.” “Have you ever used AI?” “I haven’t checked my email yet.” The present perfect ties past actions to right now — and modern life is full of moments that need it. This collection comes at two levels. The Pre-Intermediate version drills the core time markers — ever, never, just, already, yet, since, and for — across lifestyle, environment, and social-media topics, while the Intermediate version levels up to expressions like gone viral, come a long way, fallen behind, stumbled across, made the switch, and grown accustomed to. Both versions build from a Modern Life dialogue, a grammar role play, several critical-thinking worksheets, and pronunciation practice; the Pre-Intermediate pack adds a listening quiz and personal-experience questions, while the Intermediate version steps up to a lecture, How Our Lives Have Changed, an entertainment graph, and a School Reunion Talk Zone.

📦 Passive Voice: Behind the Scenes of Modern Life

Added: 2026 • Levels: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate (two versions)

Your sneakers were designed in Germany, made in Vietnam and flown halfway around the world before you tried them on. Every object in the room has a hidden journey behind it — and that journey is told in the passive. Two versions tell it at different levels. Behind the Scenes of Modern Life (Pre-Intermediate) builds the core passive with made, grown, assembled, packaged, shipped, tracked, scanned, stored, collected, recycled, and repaired, through The Sneaker Journey dialogue, a Life of a T-Shirt factory tour, a Delivery Problem role play, three critical thinking sets (Online Deliveries, How Food Gets to Us, What Happens to Recycling), and The Product Wars design-your-own-product finale. The Hidden Life of Products (Intermediate) pushes into perfect, modal and future passives with mass-produced, sourced, distributed, monitored, recalled, refurbished, discontinued, automated, outsourced, and counterfeited — plus The Recall dialogue, a smartphone factory lecture, and critical thinking on automation, product responsibility and supply-chain transparency.

📱 Past Simple Tense: Digital Life Edition

Level: Elementary-Intermediate • Digital Life Contexts

What did you do on your phone yesterday? Downloaded an app, ordered delivery, watched five episodes you didn’t mean to? The past simple tense, brought into the 2020s. This set of exercises practices regular and irregular verbs through situations students recognize, with vocabulary around downloading, posting, scrolling, streaming, ordering, swiping, charging, and screen time. Activities include a What Did You Do on Your Phone listening quiz, a Food Delivery Disaster dialogue, a Tech Disaster Day role play, three critical thinking sets (Digital Life Yesterday, Weekend Screen Time, Technology Troubles), an Odd One Out vocabulary review, collocations practice, Circle the Word and Syllable Stress pronunciation, and Digital Life Personal Experience Questions.

🎯 Basic Gerunds: Likes & Dislikes

Level: Elementary • Expressing Preferences

Love streaming. Can’t stand scrolling. Don’t mind cooking. Hate waiting. Gerunds — verb + -ing — are how English expresses what we like and hate doing. This lesson pairs feelings with everyday actions, using expressions like love, enjoy, don’t mind, can’t stand, and hate alongside modern vocabulary around streaming, scrolling, ordering delivery, weekend activities, digital entertainment, and 2020s lifestyles. Activities include a brainstorm and visual vocabulary, collocations practice, a Gerunds for 2020s Lifestyles exercise, a Main Idea Worksheet, two critical thinking sets (Weekend Vibes and Digital Entertainment), a What Do You Enjoy? listening intro quiz, a Dialogue, a Gerunds Grammar Role Play, Circle the Word and Syllable Stress pronunciation, Q and A Personal Questions on Modern Lifestyles, and a Survey Activity.

🎭 Adjectives for Personality Types: A Key Soft Skill

Level: Pre-Intermediate and Above

How would you describe yourself in three words? Ambitious? Reliable? Easily distracted? Personality vocabulary is one of the most useful — and surprisingly tricky — areas of English. This rich set of activities covers descriptive adjectives with vocabulary like ambitious, empathetic, adaptable, detail-oriented, outgoing, reliable, perfectionist, and self-aware, plus intensifiers that fine-tune meaning. Activities include a brainstorm and visual vocabulary, collocations practice and vocabulary expansion, an Intro Personality Traits classroom discussion, a Group Project Dialogue, a Reference Role Play, three critical thinking pieces (Online Communities, Social Media Life, plus the Main Idea Worksheet), Circle the Word and Syllable Stress pronunciation, a Roommate Search Talk Zone, and a Discover Your Personality Type quiz.

Related Topics