
Two suitcases
Marta and Tomek get off the coach at eleven at night. The neighbour is waiting on the step with the keys and a flask.
Teacher-led lessons for groups of Polish adults, built around the exact mistakes Polish speakers make. Student sheets, teacher notes and answer keys — in one download.



Click a sheet to bring it to the frontFull student and teacher packs: the start of the story, the article lesson, a recorded dialogue and a role play. If they work for your group, the other 20 lessons are made the same way.




The lessons don't just teach grammar. Each one targets a specific mistake that Polish carries into English, and the teacher notes tell you what to listen for.
Polish marks the person on the verb. English needs the pronoun.
The flagship A1 error. A whole lesson exists for it.
Grammatical, and rude. The Polish imperative isn't.
The letting agent has gone home. The neighbour is waiting on the step with the keys and a flask. Over 24 lessons your class follows them from arrival to the day four friends sign one lease. Each lesson also works on its own.

Each lesson stands on its own, so a B1 group boards at B1. Choose a stop to see what happens there.

Marta and Tomek get off the coach at eleven at night. The neighbour is waiting on the step with the keys and a flask.

Flat 4B has a bed, a kettle and no curtains. They make two lists: what's there, and what they need.

Dev knows where they live before they finish the sentence, and puts a loaf they didn't pay for in the bag.

Tomek's first week on a building site. Within two days the crew decide his name is Tom.

Isla knocks at ten at night with biscuits, finds Tomek putting up shelves, and stays to hold the spirit level.

The market, the wrong bus, and, because it was the wrong bus, the best view in Blackwell.

Marta's registration form comes back twice. The receptionist turns out to be from Gdańsk.

Dev draws a map on a receipt. Isla says it's wrong. Both routes work.

A barbecue in the yard behind the flats. Everyone gets described to somebody else, always a little too generously.

The council, the NI number, the bank, the deposit. Dev keeps a laminated sheet under the till for exactly this.

Six months in. Isla asks what they have and haven't done in England yet, and is appalled by the answers, in a friendly way.

Planning a day out: four people, four opinions, and a forecast that nobody trusts.

The tenancy renewal arrived while they were away. By the time Marta realised it was missing, Dev had signed for it.

Isla has been working double shifts since March and won't say why. Marta works it out.

A rumour goes round Mill Street that the café is closing. Four people repeat it, and each time it changes.

They come home to a mended step, a finished shelf and a plant on the windowsill. Nobody admits to anything.

What each of them would do with five thousand pounds, and what they'd have done last year.

Isla takes the café on. Whoever is free that evening does the refit. The turning point of the course.

Dev tells the street's history while they strip forty years of wallpaper off the café wall.

Opening week. Everyone has one thing they'd have done differently.

Marta makes the case for staying in Blackwell, and Tomek for going home. Neither of them is wrong.

Dev shuts the shop early every Thursday and won't say where he goes. The other three build theories.

The flat above the café: one lease, four names, split four ways. Where will everyone be by spring?

The viewing, the argument about the smallest room, and four signatures.
A substitution table: pick one part from each column. The left column always contains the subject, so your class has no way to drop it. All 36 combinations are correct English.
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Teachers running group classes for Polish-speaking adults, in Poland or abroad. The lessons are teacher-led: they are not designed for self-study.
You can print as many copies as you need for your own groups. Please don't pass the files to other teachers. For a team, see the school licence.
No. Every lesson works on its own, so a B1 group can start at B1. The story is a bonus if you follow it, not a requirement.
Yes. Within 14 days of buying, email us and you get your money back, even if you have already downloaded the files.
Straight after payment, in your account. You can download them again at any time.