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levels

The levels used on this index are those of the Common European Framework of reference for languages (as above).
See the guide on Wikipedia for more details of the abilities at each level.

There are materials on this site in the learners' area which can be incorporated into your teaching.  Materials in that area at levels C1 and C2 are also suitable for teachers of English (whether their first language is English or not).
There are some notes on how to integrate the materials (whether or not you have classroom access to the internet).

Levels A1 and A2
I like, I love, I hate A lesson incorporating common verbs of opinion and lexis around leisure activities
The weather A lesson focusing on simple weather lexis, the seasons and some adverbs of extent and frequency
Clothes This is a plan for how to use the materials on this site in the learners' section.  It can be adapted for many of the other lessons at this level
Elementary prepositions These are two short video presentations which covers some essential prepositions of place and movement only
Levels B1 and B2
Gerunds after verbs of opinion A lesson incorporating common verbs of opinion and lexis around leisure activities with gerunds
Writing a Report This is a series of lessons based around report genre and writing about your home town.  It can be easily adapted for any topic
Quantifiers This lesson works in combination with an exercise on this site and focuses on the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
Health issues This is a plan for how to use the materials on this site in the learners' section.  It can be adapted for many of the other lessons at this level
7 meanings of over A mini-video to present the 7 meanings of over.  Right click the link to save the video to your computer
Speculating about the past This is a two-lesson set of procedures and materials on past forms of modal auxiliary verbs.
Forming relative clauses This is a short video presentation which tries to explain how we make basic relative clauses with who and which
Forming passive voice clauses This is a short video presentation which tries to explain how we make basic passive-voice clauses
Levels C1 and C2
Gerunds and infinitives A lesson incorporating on verbs which are followed by gerunds or infinitives for opinion verbs (gerunds) and hopes and plans (infinitives)
Writing a Report This is a series of lessons based around report genre and writing about your home town.  It can be easily adapted for any topic
Present perfect progressive / present perfect simple This is a plan for how to use the materials on this site in the learners' section focusing on grammatical aspect with two quite tricky tense forms: the difference between What have you done? and What have you been doing?
Using time lines for the present perfect progressive This is a video presentation to help you explain the use of the present perfect progressive for long or repeated actions resulting in a present decision about the future.
Speculating about the past This is a two-lesson set of procedures and materials on past forms of modal auxiliary verbs.
Other areas
Identifying word stress This is a video presentation about how to practise identifying word stress.