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Download English teaching material and lesson plans

Welcome to the download page - from here you can download free English language software (CALL) or access ready-to-use classroom materials for English language classrooms.

Teaching materials for teachers of English!
Tired? Frustrated? In need of a quick lesson idea?

We have put together some of our favourite lesson ideas at Churchill House and put them on this site for you to download. Each piece of material comes as a PDF file, which means that you need the Acrobat Reader program to open it and print it. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, click here to download it now.

Otherwise, choose your lesson idea (or ideas) from the list below.

Lesson ideas
Just click on the title to find out more!
Phonetic crosswords
How to get a first
Battleships
Classroom language
Could I borrow...?
Grammar words
Irregular verbs
Reading - 10 generalisable techniques
Relationships
Revision cards
What job ads really mean
The very bad Yorkshire joke

 

Free software - the First Certificate program

Awarded 'The Most Popular' award by Softpile. Awarded 'The Most Popular' award by Softpile

At Churchill House, we have been helping students pass the Cambridge First Certificate in English since 1971.

Now we've taken some of that expertise and put it into a computer program - the Churchill House First Certificate Program.

The program is designed to give you special help with Paper 3 of the First Certificate exam, and in particular with the tricky Part 4 - error correction.

If you are thinking of taking First Certificate - or if you just want to improve your general English grammar - then try this program now!

Click to downloadTo download the program, click here
At 1.6MB it is easy to download, doesn't take up much room on your computer and will run on any PC with Windows 95 or above - and it's completely free! You can even copy it and give it to your friends if you want.

System requirements:
· 486/66 or faster
· 16 Mb RAM
· VGA / SVGA monitor
· Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or higher

Installation:
Download the program to your hard drive. When the download is complete, disconnect from the internet. Locate the downloaded file on your hard drive (eg through Windows Explorer or My Computer). Double-click on the file. Follow the instructions you will see on the screen.