Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases

How to respond in social situations phrases review, starting with matching three typical answers to common social phrases and continuing with brainstorming and other activities.

Fun review of all necessary language for English for social purposes, with students progressing around a board by how well they interact.

Grammar words in typical phrases for social situations like restaurants and pubs guessing game then brainstorming useful phrases.

Problems with countable nouns and problems with uncountable nouns to discuss.

Personalised oral practice of some and any by students trying to make sentences that are true for both/ all of them from typical sentence stems, with easy and more tricky uses of some and any.

How the word sorry is used and other ways of apologising

Turn taking phrases and active listening phrases presentation and practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and continuing with brainstorming and classifying useful language.

An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions

Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.

Beginning and closing conversations phrases review starting with a fun quick reactions game, with students then trying to remember and classifying the start and end of conversations language.

Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.

Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.

Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.

Adding adverbs etc to Unreal Past

Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.

Trivia quiz to practise subject questions

Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

Students share opinions with adjectives with most and -est then try to remember and classify the superlative forms.

A fun superlatives card game based on Othello for memorising adjectives with most and -est by guessing the superlative with the same or opposite meaning on the other side of the card.

Good and bad present tense questions to use and avoid

Students practice a wide range of different quantifiers by making up problems and suggesting solutions, with suggested topics and grammar presentation stage.

Future times and verb forms confusions and synonyms review, starting with a fun quick reactions game and with an optional prepositions in future time expressions presentation.

How to thank and respond to thanks review

Game for practising thanking

Turn taking language games practicing the language of interrupting presentation and practice

Past tenses sentence completion personalised guessing game.

Prepositions of position with there is/ are speaking game in which students try to get positive answers to personal questions with this grammar, with both basic and more difficult prepositions of location, and controlled and freer speaking.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking on strong preferences

Advice on IELTS Reading with useful language for supporting your arguments in IELTS Speaking Part Three and IELTS Writing Task 2, including lots of different reasons/ cause/ effects phrases.

Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.

Initial phonics and third person of Present Simple practice through the fun challenge of trying to answer questions with words starting with each letter of the alphabet.

Present Simple with -s practice with a coin deciding if students should lie or tell the truth and their partner guessing if it was fact or imagination, followed by controlled practice of negative third person Present Simple.

Fun active practice of this/ that and simple word recognition through students racing to touch the right one of two cards with the same word on.