Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Technology & science

Pros and cons of technology that might happen in the future discussion

Technical English in the UK and USA review, including a TPR game, a drawing game, Othello, dominoes, and a jigsaw task.

Engineering compound nouns and other collocations in the UK and USA review, including British and American engineering vocabulary dominoes.

Similar and different business and ESP vocabulary

Passive voice lesson for engineers

Guessing game for passive and techical English practice, moving onto a grammar presentation and work on engineering collocations, synonyms, abbreviations, etc.

Students practise passive voice by discussing what a good product should do then trying to sell that idea to other groups, good for business and ESP students, including Technical English classes.

Key word sentence transformations on email and letter language for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two.

How to divide up the information in an email into clear paragraphs

Email phrases that can finish in different ways practice.

A, an, the, some, etc in typical emailing phrases

Formal and informal emails review

Dealing with emailing situations roleplays and useful language.

Talking about and then seeing typical kinds of emails, including different levels of formality.

Similar and different starting and ending emails phrases

Describing and comparing technologies games

Lots of useful English for engineers vocabulary

A fun will for future predictions practice guessing game, with future technologies vocabulary to make predictions about, especially good for English for engineers/ Technical English classes.

UK and US English for engineers and scientists review, also good for defining things and talking around unknown vocabulary practice.

Speaking practice of language for IELTS Writing Task 1 flowchart tasks

Different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 2 questions on STEM subjects, including "look at both sides", "to what extent", "causes and solutions" and other question types, with four suggested activities.

Present and historic inventions vocabulary matching game

Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review

ESL lesson plan on past, present, and future inventions. Includes vocabulary, speaking activities, and roleplays.

How to use and how not to use the imperative for requests, orders/ commands/ instructions and (especially) offers in business and personal emails.

Miming English for engineers sentences

English for engineers abbreviations

Advice and language for teleconferences

Phrases for speaking on the phone and in person review

Completing telephoning phrases through brainstorming and roleplays. Students practice different phrases for telephoning situations. They test each other in pairs and roleplay conversations.

Vocabulary to talk about and make phone calls review, including guessing games.

Three kinds of leaving and taking messages practice in a kind of TTT format, focussing on checking understanding phrases, ending with tricky telephoning situations to roleplay.

Origins of tech vocab discussion for practice of the past tense "used to"