Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Too, too many, too much, enough and not enough in common collocations such as proverbs review, good both as models of how to use the quantifiers and as useful fixed phrases.

Learning adjectives with too and enough with a version of Othello

Too, too much, too many, enough and not enough practice through sentences to complete together with your opinions, the freer discussion topics.

Fun pairwork activities in which their partners guess which version is British from language and general knowledge clues, followed by a more basic matching UK and US English activity.

Guessing the situation from wishes

Talking about the origins of language, and expressions which used to be used and are still okay

Used to for past habits and being accustomed practice through three fun games and typical used to sentences to complete, including finding experiences that students share, a guessing game, and a lying game.

Students make sentences about past habits or getting accustomed to things that are true for both of them, using the typical used to sentence stems to help.

Using "used to" to talk about how westernised your country has become

Students make up wrong options with used to, test each other's general knowledge, then answer grammar presentation questions about the past tense that they have just been using.

Past and present habits verb forms speaking through a fun personalised guessing game.

Using defining relative clauses to explain Valentine's Day gifts, places, and other love and relationships vocabulary, including a relative pronouns grammar presentation, and moving onto other festivals and celebrations.

Students put cards which take the same verb pattern together, first with no help, then with tips like putting synonyms and opposites together, with verbs followed by gerund, by infinitive and by "someone".

Verb with object, infinitive, infinitive with to and -ing matching memory game, based on the card game "pairs"

Matching verb plus infinitive and verb plus gerund memory game, for low-level learners

Verb with infinitive, gerund and someone matching memory game

Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.

Three fun speaking games for verb plus gerund, verb plus infinitive, etc, with students guessing, trying to spot lies, or trying to find things they share, with typical sentences to use each pattern in.

Personalised speaking practice of verb + to + verb and verb + verb with -ing, with students making sentences from the typical sentence stems in a guessing game, a lying game, or a finding things they share activity.

What follows verbs writing and speaking

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.

Verb + direct object + indirect object oral practice through discussing what to do with unwanted possessions when moving house, with thirteen suggested verbs with more than one object.

Phrasal verbs and other multiword verbs including the particle "back" situations to discuss, followed by checking their memory of which verbs have each meaning and the language of advice.

Typical sentences with verb + back to use, a test of their memory of the verbs they were just using, then situations to roleplay for freer practice of multiword verbs.

Want and want to for future desires and prepositions of location practice with personalised speaking and sketching the answers.

How to spell and pronounce words with W+H review, starting with a fun game, and including silent letters, homophones, and comparisons to words spelled with just W.

Open question formation and meeting people presentation and practice first lesson through needs analysis pairwork interviews, suggested questions, more controlled practice, then roleplays.

Open questions and question formation practice through everyday conversation questions in a TTT lesson format, also good for Social English classes and learning meeting people.

Finding things in common with verbs of senses, including like as a preposition questions

Superlative adjectives practice through students guessing and finding out who is the most extreme in the class, then trying to remember the ...est and most... forms that they just used.

Two personalised questions with demonstratives drawing card games to practise possessives

Will for making up your mind, offers, etc answer me speaking game, with points for getting that response with words on your card from your partner.

A fun card game based on Othello to help memorise different forms of words, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.

Words which take the same affixes listening game.

Words stressed on the first syllable practice through a maze puzzle, with two versions and an optional presentation stage where students try to work out patterns in which kinds of words have which kind of stress.

How to pronounce and spelling words with schwa sounds

Silent letters speaking tasks.

A spelling game to practise spelling and pronunciation of words with silent letters, including homophones and examples at different levels.

Homophones of and minimal pairs of words with silent letters review.

must/ might/ may/ could + have + past participle to discuss likely and unlikely explanations for historical events

If + Past Simple, would + verb for discussing hypothetical questions about the past

Closed questions with can oral pairs card game, with one point for the same answer to "Can...?" questions matching the two cards that are chosen, including common abilities topics and verbs.

Four card games to practise sentences with no article, including a lying game and storytelling, with cards with words that commonly go with the zero article.