Lesson Plans: Vocabulary

Medieval history vocabulary

Changes in the world of insurance speaking, including insurance industry vocabulary.

Funny and sensible colours and nouns combinations activity.

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.

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.

Vocabulary related to different feelings

Language for talking about changes synonyms and common confusions, especially useful for Financial English students, Business English classes, and IELTS Academic Writing preparation.

Using language you can rank to discuss language learning.

Students try to explain similar but different legal English words and expressions, including common confusions between legal terms, with two homework writing tasks.

Extended speaking on patents topics, parts of speech error correction with patents collocations, then patents conversations for freer practice of patents vocabulary, good for Legal English and maybe Technical English ESP courses.

Stages of life vocabulary practice through two guessing games and a lying game for personalised speaking.

Oral tasks to learn vocabulary of major life events like birth and marriage.

Practising love and relationships vocabulary through a fun Q&A truth or dare coin game, with a personal relationships vocabulary phrasal verbs, other idioms and other collocations presentation.

Students ask for and give opinions on medical controversies based on discussion questions, suggested topics, suggested opinions phrases and more in-depth discussions of mind over body.

Months of the year and colour vocabulary silly and sensible combinations activities.

Practising vocabulary with a months memory game, including actions vocabulary and ordinal numbers.

Students give hints about what month they are thinking of until their partner can spell that month letter by letter in a hangman spelling game, including personalised speaking and suggested descriptions of what happens in particular months.

Students learn movie vocabulary while they discuss how to use English-language films to learn English, good for learner training with a very popular topic of conversation.

Student learn a lot of useful words and phrases for talking about films while practising the language of opinions, ending with trying to remember and classify the movie vocabulary that they have used.

Cultural differences and useful language related to names

Learning how to read, write and spell the names of months with dominoes games .

Drilling the names of months with a vocabulary flashcard memory game, including places, sports, weather, food,

Suffixes to make nationality adjectives games.

Practising giving and responding to opinions phrases and current affairs vocabulary, first with speaking and then by brainstorm relevant words and phrases.

Describing how numbers are used in English games, including cultural differences

How to pronounce data in the IT field practice

Numbers with the same and different pronunciations and meanings

Changes in the world of sport language of trends practice

Guessing interesting numbers related to the Olympic games, with pronouncing numbers practice

Students share their opinions on news and news media with the connected vocabulary provided, then brainstorm those and similar news and news coverage words and expressions - also good for opinions phrases practice.

Current affairs compound nouns and other news collocations practice through giving opinions speaking and then joining together split collocations.

Practising opinions phrases and travel and transport vocabulary speaking, with travel vocabulary word formation and travel vocabulary collocations.

Giving opinions on paintings, sculpture, etc, with arts vocabulary.

Students guess pairs of opposites letter by letter like a kind of double hangman, starting with very easy opposites like yes - no and hot - cold, also useful practice for spelling and pronouncing letters of the alphabet.

Free speaking practice of antonyms, including seven fun roleplays pretending to have totally different opinions, memories, and experiences.

Competitive practice of first, second, third, etc, including guessing games, races, personalised speaking, and getting to know their classmates.

Using first, second, third, fourth, etc to say which one from lists of vocabulary is different, including lots of different useful language.

Practising first, second, third, etc with a vocabulary memory game, including lots of useful vocabulary.

Language for describing and talking about parks, especially useful for gardeners and architects

Discussing the value for different kinds of people for society, with jobs vocabulary practice

Learning personality words and examining gender issues

Common and amusing politically correct language review

Positive connotations and negative connotations in reviews of restaurants, etc, review.

Warmer for presentations skills classes, with useful language for talking about presentations