Training videos, practical tips and lesson plans
you can start using today – tap into the technology at your fingertips and transform your teaching.
Training, Lesson Plans and Tips list
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Training: 60 minutes
Training: Using Cambridge English kahoots in online teaching and learning
Watch this training session, or run it for your colleagues.
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Lesson Plan: 60 minutes
Integrating kahoots into online English lessons
Interactive games can help motivate and engage learners in online lessons and independent study.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Using Cambridge English kahoots in online teaching and learning
Help young learners practise skills and language at home or in online lessons with Cambridge English kahoots.
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Tips: 5 minutes
What you need to know about security when teaching learners online
When teaching English online make sure you take your learners' privacy seriously.
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Training: 5 minutes
Teaching English Online - 4-week course
Gain knowledge, digital tools, and ideas to start or transform your teaching career. Learn how to adapt your face-to-face teaching skills to an online environment.
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Training: 60 minutes
Getting started with teaching English online
Transfer your English teaching skills to an online context and consider what you need from an online platform.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Training: differentiating activities to support and challenge learners
Help your colleagues to use technology to support and challenge learners.
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Lesson Plan: 60 minutes
Differentiating activities to support and challenge learners
Create differentiated vocabulary practice materials quickly and easily for use in class or for homework.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Training: creating opportunities to provide feedback on speaking
Help your colleagues to use technology to capture, listen to and provide more feedback for learners.
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Lesson Plan: 30 - 45 minutes
Creating opportunities to provide feedback on speaking
Use a voice-recording tool to help you capture, listen to and provide more feedback for learners.
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Lesson Plan: 30 - 45 minutes
How to use ThingLink to support situational language teaching
Help prepare learners for the language used in particular situations.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Using a whiteboard app to practise vocabulary
Help your learners set a learning goal and reflect on their performance using a drawing and description task.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Using a word cloud maker to self-assess writing
Help your learners self-assess and improve their writing using a word cloud maker.
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Tips: 15 - 30 minutes
Tips – Using digital tools to develop learner autonomy
Help your learners define their own aims and organise their own study.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Work smarter with digital tools
Make the most of technology to improve your productivity, time management and communication.
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Lesson Plan: 60 minutes
Manage your language
Get your learners thinking about how they can manage their vocabulary learning with productivity apps and other digital tools.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Improving productivity with digital tools
How to use digital tools to manage tasks, stay in touch with parents, and try new ways of communicating with your learners.
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Lesson Plan: 60 minutes
Class dictionary
Use digital tools to create a class dictionary with your young learners.
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Lesson Plan:
The good search quiz – Secondary and adult
Get secondary and adult learners thinking about how they search with this ready-to-use lesson plan.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
The good search quiz – Primary
Get your primary learners thinking about how they search with this ready-to-use lesson plan.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Information search
Improve your search skills and help your learners evaluate search results.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Effective searching
Try out new tools to make your online searching more effective.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Digital presentation tools
Try using digital presentation tools to inspire and motivate learners to speak and write.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Descriptive writing with Storybird
Set a Storybird assignment to inspire your learners to improve their descriptive writing and unlock their imagination.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Managing digital distractions
Help your learners understand and manage digital distractions.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Creating a positive digital footprint
Raise awareness of digital footprints and how to manage them.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Using screen capture to give feedback
Give detailed visual and spoken feedback on project work, writing and learner-created content in apps and games.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Recording spoken feedback on student writing
Train your learners to respond to more detailed spoken feedback.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Independent reading and writing practice
Use storytelling tools, infographics, news websites and noticeboards to transform reading and writing homework.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Set a creative writing homework project
Use beautiful images to inspire story writing and help learners explore their creative side with a longer-term homework project.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Independent listening and speaking practice
Set interesting, motivating homework tasks to help learners practise and improve their listening and speaking skills at their own pace.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Independent listening practice
Get learners practising their listening skills at home with this simple handout and online resources.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Reflective practice
Try these practical tips for incorporating reflective practice into your teaching.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Instant messaging (IM) activities
Try these practical tips for using instant messaging with your learners.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Vocabulary – Revise, recycle, remember
Find and use ready-made, interactive vocabulary sets and design your own to improve vocabulary learning.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Vocabulary – Revise, recycle, remember
Use a ready-made, interactive vocabulary set or get learners to create their own in these ready-to-use lesson plans.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Designing Learning
Try these practical tips to help you integrate digital tools and resources so that they support course aims and learning objectives.
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Lesson Plan: 15 - 30 minutes
Giving feedback on writing
Try out Google Docs for giving feedback on writing with this ready-to-use lesson plan.
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Training: 15 - 30 minutes
Giving feedback on writing
Using simple wordprocessing tools to give effective feedback on writing.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Delivering Learning
Try these practical tips for using technology to support, educate and communicate with your learners.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – The Digital World
Try these tips to help you and your learners navigate the digital world safely, successfully and productively.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – The Digital Classroom
Try these practical tips to get you and your learners using technology for learning.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – The Digital Teacher
Try these practical tips for using technology to record, reflect on and share your thoughts and for finding professional development resources and support.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Evaluating Learning
Try these practical tips for using technology to assess your learners and evaluating the way you use digital tools and resources in class.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Tips – Virtual Reality
Try it out in your classroom.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
Try it out in your classroom.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Teacher Training with Virtual Reality
Try it out in your classroom.
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Tips: 5 minutes
Automated speech recognition
Try it out in your classroom.
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Tips: 5 minutes
EdTech for improving writing skills
Try it out in your classroom.
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Tips: 5 minutes
EdTech for collaboration, creativity and play
Try it out in your classroom.