Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Present Continuous and other future tenses review

Different future tenses extended speaking game

Verbs followed by to + infinitive and verb followed by verb with -ing cards to make stories out of, plus some more basic practice of those two common verb patterns

Fun can/ can't practice with real small talk questions using that language, and a little cultural training

Small talk questions with have got for possession and have for actions coin game, with some bad questions to avoid

Students choose, ask, answer, analyse and make suitable small talk questions with have something done - especially good for speaking practice of typical Cambridge First Use of English language.

Good and bad everyday questions with the Past Simple tense.

TPR practice of gradable and ungradable adjectives, including adverbs with gradable and extreme adjectives, great for young learners and other active classes.

Students memorise gradable and ungradable adjectives with a fun card game based on Othello, with versions with gradable/ extreme pairs, antonyms, and adjectives with the same grammar and meaning.

Making personal stories more interesting with extreme adjectives speaking, with gradable and ungradable adjectives grammar presentation.

Matching gradable and non-gradable adjectives jigsaw activities.

Students ask, answer and make conversation questions with gradable and ungradable adjectives, plus a gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives grammar presentation.

Students use cards with gradable and ungradable adjective pairs to make conversation questions, match the pairs, add collocations, and test each other on the language - including adverbs with gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives.

Students practise gradable and extreme adjectives with the card game pairs/ the memory game, first matching by grammar and then matching gradable and ungradable pairs, before trying to remember the words they just used.

Opinions with gradable and extreme adjectives pairs.

Possessions in particular places personalised guessing games, including basic and more advanced prepositions of location.

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.

Six fun speaking dice games for the passive for have something + past participle, including guessing games, lying games and sharing personal information, and suggested common have something done sentences.

Eight fun third person singular of have card games, useful for talking about possessions and third person -s, including questions and short answers.

Six fun card games for practising likes, also useful for third person S practice, including third person yes/ no questions and short answers,

Medieval history vocabulary

Elementary homophones and minimal pairs

Practising defining relative clauses while learning British and American vocabulary differences

Students make up false answers to trivia questions with Past Perfect to fool each other with, test each other on their general knowledge, give hints, and analyse the grammar that they just used.

Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.

Students play a warmer cooler guessing game or try to fool each other with wrong answers for different general knowledge questions about the past and present, with a Present Perfect vs Past Simple presentation stage.

Students play a pairwork warmer cooler guessing game with general knowledge questions about the past, then test each other on the irregular verbs they were just using.

Synonyms and common confusions with small talk questions with how, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and ending with brainstorming.

Good and bad small talk questions with how review.

Small talk questions with how review with card games.

Three fun small talk questions with how dice games, including the most typical question starters, question endings, and answers, including ranking strong and weak positive and negative adjectives in answers.

Common words in small talk how questions and answers guessing game, including key words and tricky points like prepositions and determiners.

Realistic small questions with how situations to roleplay, followed by a different how questions presentation.

The two different kinds of how questions review, including a simple presentation game.

Adjectives ending in ed and ing practice through a fun story.

Unreal Past for regrets and complaints practice game

Idioms with the preposition 'like' speaking activity

As... as idioms bluffing game

Discussing and then remembering as... as idioms like "busy as a bee"

Card game to memorise as... as... fixed expressions

Idioms with the preposition like presentation and practice