Resource Tasters | Highlights from Our Themed EFL Packs 2024–25

Over the 2024 to 2025 school year, we created a series of themed resource packs full of resources designed for TEFL, EFL, ESL, ESOL and EAL classrooms. Topics included British food, science and technology, relationships, Shakespeare, Christmas, and music and film. Each pack was built to deliver purposeful English language learning through creative, flexible classroom tasks.

This taster pack brings together complete activities taken from across the full collection. From grammar games and reading texts to quizzes, puzzles, and roleplay, every task in this set is ready to print and use. Whether you need a one off lesson, a time filler, or inspiration for a topic based session, this is an ideal way to explore the full resource range.

What’s Included:

• Food Challenge Board Game – A roll and speak game that gets students talking about food in small groups
• Cooking Tenses Game – Grammar and sentence building using common cooking verbs
• Amazing Animals – Reading and vocabulary task exploring unusual animal traits, plus a visual matching quiz
• ‘How to…’ Board Game – A speaking game where students give instructions for everyday tasks
• Exploring Bridges – A short text followed by a team based build a bridge construction task
• Maths Hacks and Tips – Maths strategies to boost mental arithmetic and confidence
• Christmas-up! – Seasonal versions of Pictionary, storytelling and classroom warmers
• Christmas Tongue Twisters – Speaking cards to support fluency and festive pronunciation
• Top Picks Challenge – A survey style speaking task based on relationship data
• Perfect Match – A speed meeting activity where students roleplay characters to find their match
• Man’s Best Friend – A fun dog breed quiz using vocabulary, logic and betting in teams
• People in My Life – Creative diagrams and reflective language to explore identity and key relationships
• Spot the Plot! – Reading challenge sorting real Shakespeare summaries from decoys
• Romeo and Juliet Scenes – Four short extracts from the play with notes for classroom performance
• James Bond Scenes – A storyboard task teaching camera angles through a spy themed action sequence
• Music and Film Quiz – A lively team quiz covering lyrics, artists, scenes and pop culture knowledge

These resources are also available to download individually.

Perfect For:

• TEFL, TESOL and CELTA qualified teachers
• One off lessons, themed weeks and cover classes
• Building speaking, reading and vocabulary skills
• Teachers looking for flexible ready made materials
• Trialling our full range of English resource packs

Please Note: Once you have completed your purchase, you will receive a PDF pack to download and print. This is a digital download – no physical product will be shipped.