A fourteen year old finds himself in trouble with the school Principal – again. This time, however, he has a genuine excuse, but is he likely to be believed? This popular BritLit kit has been revised and reshaped from the 2005 original and contains new material. The teacher is offered a ‘slimmed down’ version which can be used to occupy just one or two lessons. There is also a bank of supplementary material for those who want to spend more time on the story.

How many friends have you got on Facebook? What’s the friend limit on Facebook? This lesson takes a look at trends in online social networking. It gives students chance to create an imaginary online 'wall&' where they can interact with each other.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the popular story Dinosaur dig. Students will watch the story, complete comprehension activities, look at some lexis for computer games and dinosaurs, and review the story. Finally students can do some extension work based on the story, finding out about dinosaurs, inventing their own, and presenting it to the class.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the popular song People work. Students will listen to the song, complete comprehension activities, practise the jobs and job descriptions in the song, and sing the song. Finally students can do some extension work based on the song, talking and writing about the job they would like to do when they grow up.

This lesson focuses on two important aspects of managing a meeting: setting up the meeting with a series of emails, and keep the meeting under control. Two other important parts of managing a meeting, introducing the meeting and closing the meeting, are covered in lessons 1 and 5.

This lesson is about music and, in particular, music festivals, which have become an increasingly popular phenomenon in recent times. The lesson aims to develop speaking and listening skills and provides practice of the sub-skills of reading for gist and reading for specific detail. The students’ own experiences and opinions form the basis of all discussion and extension work.

The beginning of a meeting presents a major dilemma: is it better to get straight down to business, or is it important to allow or even encourage small talk? The texts in this lesson present arguments from opposing viewpoints, which may help students to question their own assumptions. The lesson goes on to introduce useful language for both small talk and getting down to business, with practice in the form of role-plays.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the popular story Ali and the magic carpet. Students will watch the story, complete comprehension activities, look at some lexis for weather and habitats, and review the story. Finally students can do some extension work based on the story, producing their own TV weather forecast and re-imagining the story.

Students do lots of texting in their L1 and are often keen to learn how to text in English too. In this lesson students have a discussion, learn some useful texting abbreviations and read an article about texting and literacy.

Perhaps the most important skill connected with socialising is to ‘shut up and listen’. In practice, it can be very difficult to resist the temptation to turn every conversation into a conversation about what we consider the most interesting thing in the world, i.e. ourselves. The most skilful active listeners include nurses, social workers, psychotherapists and counsellors, so this lesson focuses especially on the techniques studied and used by these professionals.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the popular story Superhero High. Students will watch the story, complete comprehension activities, look at some lexis for super powers and superheroes, and review the story. Finally students can do some extension work based on the story, writing their own superhero school timetable and doing a class survey.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to a traditional style story The princess and the dragon. Students will watch the story, complete comprehension activities, look at some lexis for fairy stories, and retell the story. Finally students can do some extension work based on the story, writing and illustrating their own ending.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the traditional song An old lady who swallowed a fly. Students will listen to the song, complete comprehension activities, act the song out, and sing the song. Finally students can do some extension work based on the song, writing another verse or creating a new version of the song.

In this lesson, Ss will be introduced to the popular story Monster shopping trip. Ss will watch the story, complete comprehension activities, and review and re-enact the story. Finally Ss can do some extension work based on the story, creating role plays and writing about their ideal birthday party.

For many people, a meeting is only as successful as the Action Points it produces. Action Points are essential for moving things forward between meetings, and provide a focus both for the closing of one meeting and the opening of the next meeting. This lesson looks in some detail at what makes a successful Action Point. There is also a focus on the various steps involved in bringing a meeting to a successful close.

For many people, the idea of walking into a room full of strangers and trying to socialise with them can be terrifying, especially if you have to use a foreign language. The barriers to ‘breaking the ice’ in a situation like this are just as much psychological as linguistic, which is why this lesson aims to get students thinking about the situation (through a quiz-based discussion and jigsaw reading) as much as speaking and practicing the skill of starting conversations with strangers.

This lesson consists of three activities to provoke discussion and provide ideas for collaborative story writing. Unusual photos from the LearnEnglish Teens photo caption section are the main focus of the lesson (http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/freetime/photo-captions). The lesson introduces students to the LearnEnglish Teens site, encourage discussion and speculation about photos. Students brainstorm possible scenarios of what is happening in the photos. This should stimulate students' imaginations and form a basis for collaborative writing.

In a negotiation, it’s very important to know when to speak, when to ask and when to shut up and listen. In this lesson students rank and discuss the stages of negotiation, do a reading activity and look at negotiations vocabulary, examine question types, then finish with a role play to practise clarifying, summarising and responding.

This lesson plan looks at one way class journals might be set up in order to introduce students to the idea and to get them working with journals The kind of class journal described here is designed to get the students writing freely in a range of different ways. The emphasis is on fluency, as opposed to any kind of genre writing, and could be compared to the kind of oral fluency activities done with students.

In this lesson, Ss will be introduced to the popular song What can it be?. Ss will listen to the song, complete comprehension activities, practise the animals, mythical creatures and body parts in the song, as well as the ‘has got’ and possessive ’s structures, and sing the song. Finally Ss can do some extension work based on the song, inventing, writing and singing about their own mythical creature.

The final stages of a negotiation don’t always go smoothly. This lesson deals with a number of common events and situations from these closing stages. Students do a light-hearted quiz, a reading activity, a matching activity focusing on useful language and then finish with a role play.