About LinguaPlans
ESL lesson plans written by teachers who still teach
LinguaPlans makes ready-to-teach ESL lesson plans for teachers of adults, exam classes and online one-to-one students. Every lesson is built to be opened ten minutes before class and taught properly, with a clear level, a realistic timing and materials that hold up when the room goes quiet.
Our story
Why does LinguaPlans exist?
Because Sunday night is a terrible time to write a lesson.
Most ESL teachers know the routine. The coursebook unit is pitched at teenagers, the free worksheet you found online is a word search with three typos, and class starts at nine on Monday. So you rebuild it yourself. Again. (And again next week, for the group that's racing ahead of the book.)
The LinguaPlans team got tired of that cycle. We wanted lessons that respect a teacher's time and a student's intelligence: material for adults who have opinions, exam candidates chasing a band score, and one-to-one students who notice every second of dead air on a video call.
That's what we make. Nothing fancier than that, and nothing less.
Who we write for
Who are the lessons for?
Teachers of adults
Adults can smell a children's activity from across the room. Our topics come from work, travel, money and daily routines, plus the small arguments people actually have, so B1 and B2 learners finally have something real to say.
Exam preparation teachers
IELTS candidates don't need another motivational poster. They need cue cards, planning frames they can reuse under pressure, and feedback written in the language of the band descriptors.
Online one-to-one tutors
Screen-share slides and branching follow-up questions. Nobody fills silence at minute forty.
What you get
What makes a LinguaPlans lesson different?
- It tells you exactly what it is. Level, length and class type sit right at the top (B2 · 60 minutes · groups), so you know in five seconds whether it fits your Tuesday slot.
- The teacher's copy does real work. Answers and teaching notes you can glance at mid-lesson, not just the student page with the blanks filled in.
- Free means free. Our sample lessons are the full lessons, exactly as they appear in the paid library. Not samplers. Not the first page with the good half removed.
- No filler. If a page doesn't earn its place in the lesson, it isn't in the download. Forty-page PDFs padded with clip art? Not here.
How do we think about teaching?
Plans fail. Good teachers notice early and change course without panicking. The LinguaPlans blog is where we write about the messy middle of a lesson: rescuing a warm-up that dies, getting quiet adults talking, explaining grammar without drawing the chart for the fourth time. Start with what to do when a lesson dies in the first ten minutes.
Teach one this week.
Grab the three free lessons, try one with a real class, and judge us on what happens in the room.