Lesson Plans: Verbs and Tenses

The two meanings of Past Continuous practice

Talking about being and getting accustomed writing and speaking games, including bluffing, finding things in common and guessing.

Be and get used to doing communicative practice game.

Strong and weak language with be and get used to doing speaking.

Memory game/ roleplay for past tenses practice, like a business version of the alibi game

Present Simple and Continuous business grammar practice and cultural training

Practising imperative and linking words for giving reasons by discussing sending Xmas cards to business contacts

Different tenses in emails and other business writing practised with key words.

Using sounds and actions to present and practise Present Progressive for business students

Practising present tenses by guessing common business English verbs

Past Simple for business classes pronunciation and speaking

Past, present and future forms and times with business topics

Miming actions connected to the festive season, then talking about them with different tenses

Practising narrative tenses while learning about Xmas

Linking present tenses and the festive season with TPR and then personalised speaking

Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

Different continuous tenses in one speaking game

Different continuous tenses review games

Different continuous tenses speaking

Talking about society with different passive tenses, including a guessing game.

Using have (got) and doesn't have/ hasn't got in a guessing game and brainstorming descriptions game with Christmas vocabulary

Verbs with similar and opposite meanings that share both taking gerund, both taking infinitive, efc

Have possessions practice with a drawing game, flipping a coin to make it more fun and add negative statements practice.

Students guess other students' real possessions and desires in a fun card game, with useful vocabulary for describing objects.

Have and have got and English numbers funny and sensible matches activities.

Unreal Past for regrets and complaints practice game

Four fun games to practise verb and don't plus verb for orders/ commands/ instructions on the topic of ball games, including competing to come up with ideas and guessing games.

Verb + verb practice through job interview questions

Preferences and desired with like lying game, with food vocabulary and movies vocabulary.

Past tenses guessing game for Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple and Continuous

First lesson pairwork needs analysis form and link to tense review

Past, present and future review

Verbs that cannot take -ing and will be verb with -ing to talk about the next twelve months

Students play a fun card game based on Othello to learn similar past time expressions and future time expressions like "two days ago" and "in two days" and past and future tenses.

Different meanings of past tenses, including unreal past

Lying game to practise was/ were + verb+ing, based on the accusations game "Liar"

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

Listening for what times are being talked about, including a tense review and time expressions review, great for TOEIC Listening preparation.

Fun TPR verb and don't + verb practice for giving instructions/ commands/ orders, with students following instructions their classmates make from cards about what to do or not do around the class.

Practising present tenses and writing with consequences

Listening for if sentences are about the present or future, including Present Continuous for future arrangements.

Present tenses in business emailing and telephoning practice

Describing places with present tenses activities

Present Simple and Present Continuous to describe being an architect, with useful architecture vocabulary

Please + verb for offers and commands/ orders/ instructions presentation through contrasts with the language of requests, for and through the topic of the language of meetings, including error correction and sentence completion.