Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

A fun Present Simple personal questions coin game based on truth or dare in which students might have to answer their own questions, with useful language for talking about routines and Present Simple question stems.

Guessing which of six people your partner chose by asking easy Present Simple questions about their family, appearance, habits, etc.

Speaking game in which students move around a board without a dice by making as many true Present Simple statements about their partner as they can about the word/ topic of the square they are on.

Present Simple with final -s speaking games, first guessing the person and then brainstorming descriptions, with useful vocabulary for describing people with Present Simple.

Making up false meanings of proverbs bluffing game

Yes/ No questions with can speaking game

Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.

Places for foreign visitors to go to speaking.

Adjectives with most and -est and the language of recommendations oral practice, including how to form superlatives and how to respond to recommendations.

Using irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns to tell stories.

Two fun reported questions speaking games, starting with small talk and with a grammar presentation in between.

Conversation questions for free speaking practice of indirect speech, including both personal questions and opinion questions.

Students try to remember and report back a conversation that their partner really had - good for controlled communicative practice, personalisation, and students getting to know each other.

A lying game for fun oral practice of indirect speech, with an optional grammar presentation, with suggested typical conversations to report.

Mini-presentations for indirect speech free speaking practice, with suggested presentation topics and suggested follow-up questions for the people listening.

Typical confusions with reported speech review through labelling diffences in meaning and synonyms, including backshift and no backshift, and different reporting verbs.

Verbs for reporting speech with the same and different meaning, including common mistakes with reporting verbs.

A fun dealing with requests and questions controlled practice speaking game in which students move around the board by making phrases more and more polite/ formal.

How to respond to requests practice activities

Guessing things, places and people by requests associated with them, and brainstorming useful requests for each

Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses

Sc with pronounced C and silent C practice, starting with a quick reactions game, with contrasts to words with SK and S, homophones, and silent letters.

Discussing films with if + past simple, would

Talking about precautions with "in case" speaking practice, including suggested topics and sentence stems.

Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking

Mixed conversations in shops to cut up and put in order, followed by students testing each other on the shop assistant and customer phrases.

TPR practice of phrases for shoppers and shop assistants, starting with a guessing game and then students testing each other on the language.

Students put cards together to match three typical shopper responses to things that shop assistants often say to them, then are tested on the language in other ways.

Typical shorter phrases for asking for and giving opinions, and their longer forms

Quick reactions game for short answers like "Yes, I can" and "No, there aren't" with students quickly folding and showing the right answers.

Past modals with should for regrets and advice about the past lying game and thinking of the best ideas challenge.

A card game based on Othello to practise words with silent letters and words that are pronounced the same, with cards for five different levels of classes.

A poem to help learn the pronunciation of words with silent letters through which words they rhyme with, followed by other practice of silent letters and rhyming.

Telling stories with words with silent letters.

Words with silent letters things in common and differences activity, including similar silent and pronounced letters.

Card games to practise words with silent letters, including pairs/ pelmanism/ the memory game, and the faster, more exciting game of Snap, with cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 levels.

A fun silent letters puzzle in which students identify which letters are not pronounced and put those letters together to reveal hidden messages, with versions at five different levels.

Grouping and comparing linking expressions cards.

Basic adjectives speaking

Easy presentation task for irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns.

The three pronunciations of -ed pronunciation and speaking practice

Completing sentences with the Past Simple tense games

Single letter or double letter puzzle activity

Apostrophe before and after possessive S miming, speaking and spelling TPR games for active practice around the class.