Lesson Plans: Vocabulary

Discussing public spaces like squares and parks with useful vocabulary

Ordering mixed up days of the week flashcards activities.

Ordering mixed up months flashcards games.

Adjectives and topics in restaurant reviews

Useful vocabulary for writing reviews game, with extreme adjectives, synonyms and antonyms

Personalised oral practice of basic education vocabulary by students finding experiences and feelings that they share, with school vocabulary short forms, affixes, collocations and antonyms.

Fun language of trends practice for the festive season, with trends to explain and discuss, and an optional extension into talking about other festivals and celebrations - good for Business and IELTS classes.

Vocabulary related to spring, summer, autumn and winter review, including a fast reactions game, vocabulary such as weather words and months of the year.

Discussion with vocabulary related to sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste

Game for vocabulary related to sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste

Vocabulary related to social issues brainstorming and oral practice

Typical sports vocabulary errors for Japanese-speaking learners of English

Vocabulary related to sports and exercise listening and speaking, with bluffing game

Other meanings of vocabulary used to describe sports

Learning useful vocabulary and clock times through flashcard memory games.

Typical travel situations to roleplay, with useful transport and travel collocations in the roleplay situations and then in a joining words together task to test students' memory of the vocabulary.

ESL lesson plan on identifying whether words in academic writing tasks have the same or different meanings. Students use cards to indicate their answers.

This lesson plan focuses on UK and US political vocabulary and systems. Students identify differences, similarities, and meanings of terms.

Describing your character in university application essays

Extended speaking and suggested follow-up questions to prompt the use of verbs describing senses, including like as a preposition.

Verbs for appearance, smell, texture, taste and sound practice with sentence stems to talk about together, write down, and compare with other students.

Conversation questions using and to prompt the use of verbs describing looks, tastes, sounds, textures and smells, including like as a preposition.

Life in the UK vocabulary listening game.

Fun personalised practice of words and phrases for common and less common weather through a lying speaking game, with words that go together to describe weather presentation.

Weather vocabulary word formation and weather vocabulary collocations practice starting with personalised speaking practice where students find experiences and opinions that they share.

Words which take the same affixes listening game.