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Lesson Plans: Functional Language

ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Functional Language' grammar topic.

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Academic Discussions- Giving Positive and Negative Feedback

Positive feedback and negative feedback listening and speaking activities.
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Academic English Discussions- Cultural Differences and Useful Phrases

How academic discussions change from culture to culture, including useful language for doing so.
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Academic English- Leading seminars & discussions longer phrases game

More complicated phrases for leading academic discussions card games.
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Academic English- Leading seminars & discussions review

Helping seminar participants participate fully phrases review.
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Academic English- Longer Phrases

More complex academic English functional language card games
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Academic Word List- Giving Examples Guessing Game

Giving examples phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes
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Academic Writing Tips with Useful Phrases

Good academic writing and the language to do it classroom activities.
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Academic Writing- Cultural Differences

Differences in academic writing conventions and language, including lots of useful phrases for writing essays and published papers in English.
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Academic Writing- Error Correction Pairwork

Typical mistakes in academic emails, essays, dissertations and papers speaking task.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Future Technologies

Pros and cons of technology that might happen in the future discussion
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Alphabet Dice Game- Favourites

Making personal sentences about favourites with different letters of the alphabet dice game.
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Being Sympathetic and Unsympathetic

Being sympathetic and not in conversational reactions listening and speaking, with useful phrases.
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Business communication needs analysis and instant personalised practice

Students ask each other about how and why they need English, do pairwork practice of those kinds of realistic communciations, then brainstorm useful language for typical emails, phone calls and face to face communication.
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Business Communication- Pairwork Correction Game

Common mistakes in emailing, telephoning, meetings, etc pairwork speaking.
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Business English Presentations- Body Language & Gestures

Using your body to reinforce typical presentations phrases review
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Business English Presentations- Correct the Errors 2

Typical mistakes with common presentations phrases
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Business English Presentations- Negotiation Game

A fun game with points for negotiating well, linking to how to prepare a presentation
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Business English Telephone Language- The Same or Different?

Listening to and classifying typical telephoning phrases game, including typical telephoning confusions.
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Business English- Discussing Priorites

Pairwork needs analysis, and discussing and practising top priorities.
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Business English- Ending presentations politeness competition game

Making rude ending presentations phrases more and more formal speaking game, including ranking phrases and generalising about formality.
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Business English- Formality & Politeness in Requests

How to make requests more polite/ formal practice
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Business English- Longer negotiating phrases activities

More complex and effective negotiating phrases practice through a jigsaw activity and other card games, including two brainstorming stages.
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Business English- Making Proposals & Suggestions in Negotiations Game

Using and remembering making proposals phrases for negotiating practice, including a fun responses card game.
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Business English- Meeting People Bluffing Game

Describing companies when you meet someone lying game, with useful phrases, key words and names of famous companies to talk about.
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Business English- Moving on & Changing Topic in Meetings Jigsaw

Smoothly moving from topic to topic in meetings review, including speaking games.
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Business English- Negotiating for points game

A fun negotiating pairwork speaking game with a winner, including useful discussion of how to prepare for external negotiations, and an optional extension into talking about how to prepare for other things.
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Business English- Negotiating Language Board Game

Students work their way around a fun board game by using useful functional language for internal and external negotiations, then brainstorm what typical phrases they could have used.
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Business English- Negotiating phrases error correction pairwork

Small groups of students work together to find typical errors in the most useful negotiating phrases, then try to remember functional language.
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Business English- Negotiating Phrases Mimes

Fun TPR practice of typical functional language for negotiations, including actions to accompany phrases for starting negotiations, responding in negotiations, and ending negotiations.
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Business English- Negotiating- Saying Yes, No & Maybe

Positive, negative and ambiguous responses in negotiations review, with a simplest responses games, brainstorming with key words, and using key words in negotiating roleplays.
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Business English- Negotiations Jigsaw Dialogues and Useful Phrases

Students split and sort out cut up and mixed up formal and casual negotiations, analyse the language in them, test each other on the phrases, then roleplay internal and external negotiations with people they know and don't know.
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Business English- Phone Conversation Completion

Using the most common telephoning phrases in roleplay phone calls.
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Business English- Presentations Tips & Phrases

Good presentations tips and language
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Business English- Starting and Ending Negotiations

Students memorise and practise the most useful phrases for beginning and ending negotiations, starting with a fun quick responses listening game, then using key words to remember each phrase.
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Business English- Starting and Ending Presentations Phrases

Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review
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Business Negotiation Roleplays

Negotiating with people inside your company and outside your company free speaking, including suggested topics and people to negotiate with (suppliers, your boss, etc).
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Chairing HR meetings meeting criteria board game

Meetings on HR roleplays board game
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Christmas Food- Restaurant Roleplays

Christmas vocabulary practice through restaurant roleplays.
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Christmas Shopping Roleplays

Christmas vocabulary and shopping phrases practice, good for travel English in end of year lessons, with useful food and drink vocabulary.
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Clothes and Appearance Recommendations

Practising strong and weak recommendations language, appearance collocations and typical confusions between clothese and appearance words with a fun speaking task.
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Conceding and Counter-Arguing Card Games

Phrases to politely disagree with "but" review.
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Dealing with Enquiries- Jigsaw Dialogues

Students put a making and responding to questions conversation in order, memorise it, analyse the language, then take part in similar exchanges.
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Dealing with Problems and Complaints- Card Games

Students match typical replies to unhappy customers, then try to remember useful phrases for apologising, promising future action, etc.
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Dealing with Requests and Enquiries Responses- Card Games

Students match typical replies to people asking for favours and information, then test each other on useful phrases for polite requests, polite negative responses, etc.
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Describing Advantages and Disadvantages

Similar and different looking at both sides phrases
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Describing Maps and Directions

Similar and different ways of describing how to get somewhere
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Describing presentation visuals challenge

Describing presentation slides phrases presentation and practice
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Describing Processes- Games

Seven different games to practise vocabulary and phrases for describing how things work, especially use for IELTS Academic classes and Technical English students.
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Differences between conversational reactions

Similar but not identical conversational reaction phrases
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Directions- Flashcard Memory Game

A fun giving basic directions game, practising turn right, go straight ahead, etc with a memory card game.
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