Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games

Fun presentation or practice of phrases for looking at both pros and cons through a matching card game based on dominoes, particularly good for speaking in EAP classes and speaking exams such as IELTS Speaking Part Three.

Lying game to practise words with and without magic E after short vowels and single consonants

Gestures and sketches to illustrate the meaning of words with and without E at the end

Fun collocations with make and do practice through pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game and/ or the fast reactions game Snap, including cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 learners.

Fun practice of counting and making words with the right number of syllables through a game based on Scrabble, putting words of different lengths together to make example sentences to get right of cards.

Students use suggested question stems and topics to make first conditional, second conditional, 3rd conditional and mixed conditional conversation questions for each other, with a suggested link to a Business Partner B2 video.

Changing medium-strength opinions phrases into ones with more specific meanings

Quantifiers to use with uncountable nouns review

Questions when you meet people review

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

Modals with probability and other meanings review

Students try to make and explain phrasal verbs with a fun card game based on pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game, but with any combination okay as long as they can justify it.

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

First lesson pairwork needs analysis form and link to tense review

Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.

Needs analysis topics and questions to present countable and uncountable nouns.

Using a range of tenses to describe language learning needs and experiences

Affixes to make opposites jigsaw activities, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.

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

will have + PP with numbers practice for classes in January

Nouns which are sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable, with different meanings

Kinds of words that are often uncountable listening game

Nouns which have different meanings when they are uncountable and when they are countable review, making the meanings clear and memorable through sketches.

A fun puzzle game in which students work their way through a maze by following words with two syllables only, also good as a first step in teaching word stress.

Adding sounds with and without an added syllable practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, including pronunciation of schwa, long vowel sounds, consonant clusters, contractions, and verb endings.

Giving opinions on paintings, sculpture, etc, with arts vocabulary.

Gradable and ungradable adjectives and adverbs that go with them practice and presentation through sharing opinions - also useful for opinions phrases practice.

Typical errors with opinions phrases review

Strong and weak giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases

Differences between opinions phrases

Students guess pairs of opposites letter by letter like a kind of double hangman, starting with very easy opposites like yes - no and hot - cold, also useful practice for spelling and pronouncing letters of the alphabet.

TPR practice of simple opposites, including very basic ones like yes and no and elementary adjective antonyms.

Free speaking practice of antonyms, including seven fun roleplays pretending to have totally different opinions, memories, and experiences.

A fun words with opposite meanings story.

A fun truth or dare-style speaking game to practise feelings adjectives with opposite meanings, including suggested personal questions about feelings.

Clauses with present and past participles and no subject practice through sentences to complete and three fun personalised speaking games

Students use their imaginations and suggested past participles and present participles to tell a story about someone's crazy day, with an optional competitive version and grammar presentation.

Students explain difficult situations with the passive voice and give advice on their partner's problems, then try to remember irregular past participles and match time expressions to different passive tenses.

Students give and discuss their opinions using suggested passive voice sentences for talking about cause and effect, predictions, etc, then try to remember the past, present and future passive voice forms that they were just using.

Students try to use passive voice as much as they can as they repeat back what their partner said about the suggested topics, with suggested extensions and a link to the topic of job applications.

Passive voice and pronouncing numbers practice through a fun pairwork trivia quiz, followed by a presentation on different passive tenses and irregular past participles.

Closed questions with passive voice speaking games, for easy practice of different passive tenses, including points for getting positive answers and a fun lying game.

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

Yes/ No Simple Past questions speaking with points for getting positive answers, including typical time expressions with Simple Past sentences.