Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Learning comparing phrases by comparing finished IELTS Writing Task 1 essay with each other.

Students reflect on how their IELTS Reading practice went, practise comparisons language as they work in pairs, and compare ideas for how to do better, including self-study tips.

Past, present and future questions and answers in IELTS Speaking Part One

Touch and rare IELTS Speaking Part Two topic cards

Different topics and times IELTS Speaking game

Competing to use suitable phrases to check what the question means, fill silence, etc.

Giving opinions in IELTS Speaking Part Three practice questions on the topic of doing and preparing for IELTS Reading, good for linking the two skills/ papers together.

Trickier tenses for talking about personal topics in IELTS

How to answer questions which aren't relevant to you in IELTS

What you will hear and what you should say in IELTS Speaking

Three sets of complete IELTS Speaking exams on free time topics

To what extent IELTS questions, look at both sides IELTS questions, etc

Linking IELTS Writing and IELTS Reading through essay tasks on exam tactics, difficulties, etc, with typical Writing Task 2 types like "to what extent", "causes and solutions" and "look at both sides"

IELTS questions for practising the language of similarities and differences

A fun Unreal Past lying game, using a dice to decide the topic and regrets sentence starter, with regrets about the present and past grammar presentation.

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.

A fun dice game and grammar presentation to show the different meanings and uses of different embedded questions, including suggested topics for indirect questions speaking practice

Three fun reporting verbs activities with students guessing, spotting lies and finding things they share with the help of suggested sentence starters, including verb patterns after reporting verbs presentation.

Key words for interrupting card games

Extra sounds in natural speech in IELTS Listening gapfill task

Students analyse examples of inversion for which key words mean that inversion is needed and what they have in common, then do an inversion error correction task with the same sentences, especially useful for C2 Proficiency-level classes.

Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.

Invitations and responding to invitations phrases oral practice

Speaking practice for difficult plural forms

Rhyming irregular plurals activities

A fun card game based on Othello to memorise plurals which don't follow regular rules, also good for nouns with difficult to remember singular forms.

Memorising difficult plural nouns card game, based on Othello

Irregular Past Simple verbs with the same vowel sound pron and speaking

Simple and fun practice of Present Simple of be with jobs, family vocabulary, nationality adjectives, etc, starting with guessing the drawings and then presenting the grammar through error correction of the sentences that they just drew and guessed.

Students take turns asking funny questions like "Are there 100 bicycles under your desk?" and trying to change them to more sensible ones, for "Is there/ Are there...?" and prepositions of location practice.

Students practise spelling and there is/ there are yes/ no questions at the same time, first as a pairwork spelling test and then as a guessing game like hangman, including there is/ are questions and answers grammar presentation.

A fun game for there is/ are practice in which students test the general knowledge of their classmates, starting with a quick reactions folding paper game

Vocabulary related to different feelings

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

Like and don't like + nouns and gerunds practice with a fun miming game, starting with suggested things to act out their positive and negative feelings about.

Ten fun flipping a coin games to practise like and don't like, including trying to get particular answers, finding preferences that people share, lying games, and guessing games.

Students find tastes that they share with their partners in order to practise the language of preferences, using the suggested topics and phrases if they like, then find differences in likes and dislikes and/ or play coin games.

Students share their preferences to complete sentences covering both of them like "We both adore....", then try to recall and analyse the strong and weak likes and dislikes language that they just used,

Like + verb personalised speaking practice with a fun dice game in which students try to make true statements about their partner(s) and people they know.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking coin game

Students try to get positive responses to preferences and desires yes/ no questions with like, including trying to work out which grammar is needed for each suggested question by meaning and guessing about your partner.

Adverbs with like and unlike games

Two fun personalised speaking coin games to practise first letter phonics and like/ don't like, including with third person -s.

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Likes, dislikes and favourites speaking practice through guessing objects from hints and brainstorming how people and things feel about one thing, with suggested objects cards and third person -s practice.

More complex giving recommendations and suggestions card games