Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Common IELTS Speaking Part One topics speaking game

Learner training with IELTS Speaking Part Three opinions practice

Common IELTS Speaking Part Three question stems on nature and the environment, model speaking answers to match to the questions, then exercises to help memorise useful language from those answers.

Seeing what IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks have in common and then write similar tasks.

Students work out similarities and differences between IELTS Speaking Part Two presentation tasks, then use that analysis to help make similar tasks for each other.

Advice and useful language for IELTS Speaking Part Two presentation tasks

Vocabulary for common kinds of IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks on places, people, things, etc

Comparing your ideas for useful functional language for IELTS Speaking Part Two with a list of useful phrases.

Phrases for the beginning, body and end of IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations

Collocations with "work" for speaking about yourself in IELTS

Students answer IELTS Speaking questions in good and bad ways, then discuss how useful or not those ways of speaking are.

Guessing or remembering the details of the IELTS Speaking test

Useful phrases for checking the meaning of IELTS questions presentation and practice

Students make and ask each other typical IELTS Speaking Part One, Part Two and Part Three questions based on a fun dice game, including typical questions stems to use.

Tricky words and phrases in IELTS Speaking questions and answers review

Typical mistakes with functional language in IELTS Speaking correction and brainstorming, with a big list of useful phrases

Brainstorming useful language for the IELTS Speaking exam

Useful vocabulary for talking about yourself in IELTS Speaking

Filling IELTS tips with language you can use in IELTS Speaking and Writing

Phrases for describing flowcharts brainstorming

Brainstorming useful language for IELTS changing trends tasks

Brainstorming useful language for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1

Comparing different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 1 tasks.

Good IELTS Writing Task 1 tactics and language

Closely examining IELTS Writing Task 2 tasks

Students analyse how IELTS Writing Task 2 questions vary with speaking activities, match those tasks to different plans and introductions, then brainstorm useful phrases for starting and ending Task Two essays.

Advice and phrases for IELTS Writing Task 2 groupwork tasks

Grammar words in typical IELTS Writing Task 1 phrases pairwork guessing game, including meanings of prepositions and determiners presentation and brainstorming phrases for the introduction and body of Task 1 essays.

An answer sheet for IELTS Writing Task 1 and IELTS Writing Task 2 that guides students through the stages of preparing for, writing, editing and doing extra work.

Prepositions in typical IELTS Academic Writing phrases pairwork

Synonyms and common confusions in IELTS Writing Task 1 and Task 2

Making IELTS Writing language more formal/ academic practice

Simplest responses game for vocab to talk about your job and studies

a vs an before names of jobs, kinds of companies and nationality adjectives, with two fun speaking activities, and country and nationality words presentation and practice

Thinking of what to say or write next in job applications step by step speaking activities.

A fun comparing jobs card game, based on the memory game/ pelmanism/ pairs, but with any possible match allowed, including suffixes in jobs words presentation.

Jobs made of two words pairwork speaking

Is and are and names of jobs practice through a drawing game, including a similar and different jobs presentation.

What people do in different jobs silly and sensible matches activities with Present Continuous practice.

Students use modal verbs and similar forms like "have to" to discuss cultural norms in making arrangements, brainstorm language for doing those things, then use modal verbs to suggest arrangements, say no politely, etc.

Fun competitive practice of phone calls and making arrangements, with students trying to make the most new things to their schedules, with future time expressions practice and presentation.

Learner training and practice of conjunctions and other linking phrases through discussion of good advice on studying English outside class, including contrasting similar linking words and expressions.

Collocations in typical meetings and negotiations phrases matching games

Students interview each other with typical small talk questions for new or old contacts - great as a first class, especially in Social English preparation courses.

Fun presentation and practice of phrases for meeting people for the very first time and people you already know with a quick reactions game, followed by trying to remember those phrases and thinking of similar language for smoothly ending those chats.