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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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Do you have + May I have Games

Possession and requests language with have practice games, including cards with suitable numbers, objects and situations, plus personalised speaking.
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Do you like + Does he like Categories Coin Game

Using a coin for more fun practice of likes and dislikes language with and without third person S, with a coin choosing topics, answers and who to ask about.
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Do You Like Animals- Personalised Random Pelmanism Card Game

Personal preferences likes and dislikes speaking game with names of animals vocabulary, based on pairs/ the memory game.
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Email enquiries disappearing text memory

Formal and informal making and responding to requests and enquiries model emails memorisation game, ending with brainstorming useful phrases for the beginning, middle and end.
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Email formal and informal functional language review

Lots of formal and casual language for the body of different kinds of emails, starting with a coin game, then continuing with brainstorming and matching useful phrases.
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Email functions- Correcting & Brainstorming

Typical mistakes with different kinds of emailing phrases plus extra ideas.
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Email Phrases

Email phrases that can finish in different ways practice.
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Emailing Phrases- Brainstorming

Different ways to end typical emailing phrases brainstorming tasks.
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English for logistics needs analysis and instant personalised practice

First lesson for students in logistics companies and departments, starting with pairwork needs analysis and continuing to roleplays of the most realistic situations for their own jobs.
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Family- Extended Speaking & Active Listening Practice

Students practise reacting while they listen to each other talk about family members, then brainstorm suitable active listening language and relationships vocabulary for that speaking.
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Favourites- Drawing Dice Game

Students draw themselves and their classmates with sensible and silly favourites based on three rolls of the dice, then make up similar dice games for more rounds of the game, for practice of "My/ Your/ The...'s favourite... is..."
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First Contact- Brainstorming and Jigsaw

First contact by email, telephone and face to face review, starting with line by line brainstorming.
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First Contact- Functions Card Game

Different things you do when you make first contact card game.
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Formal and Informal Business Communications Activities

Formal business communications and casual business communications review.
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Formal and Informal Functional Language Dominoes

Useful phrases for polite and casual communication matching card game, followed by students trying to remember the most useful language for business and general speaking and writing situations.
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Free Time Sentence Completion- Personalised Guessing Game

Guessing people's statements about their leisure game, with common phrases for talking about free time
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Functional Language Dice Game

Students roll a dice to decide what to communicate about, how to communicate and what to do during the communication, then take part in speaking and writing communicative roleplays, including the most common functions.
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Functional language for guests and hosts in restaurants

Useful socialising in restaurants phrases simplest responses game.
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Generalising about festivals and celebrations

Using hedging language to make soft and strong statements about traditional events, including asking and answering how + adjectives questions
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Giving Directions in British and American English

Easy and then more difficult practice of different directions language in the UK and US, including different names for places.
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Giving Directions- Drawing Games

Checking students understand and helping them memorise directions vocabulary and functional language phrases through fun drawing games, including similar and different but easily confused directions language.
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Giving Directions- Free and Controlled Speaking

Fun creating a town, office, etc through giving directions game, with useful vocabulary for describing places.
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Giving Directions- Make it clearer

Giving more specific directions practice.
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Giving Directions- Miming Games

Directions made more memorable, easy to understand and fun through doing actions games, including directions language with similar and different meanings.
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Good & Bad Travel English Responses

How to respond and not to respond in the airport, hotels, taxis, etc.
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Guess the medical problems from the advice

Fun functional language for giving advice and medical vocabulary practice through a guessing game, useful for both medical staff and people who could be patients.
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Guests and Hosts- Restaurant Vocabulary

Fun presentaton and practice of vital social English phrases for entertaining guests and being invited to bars and restaurants, including key words to make the phrases memorable and for speaking practice,
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HR solutions strong and weak recommendations practice

Human resources vocabulary and language of advice practice
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Inviting and Dealing with Invitations- Phrases and Speaking Practice Game

Invitations and responding to invitations phrases oral practice
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Job Applications- Line by Line Brainstorming

Thinking of what to say or write next in job applications step by step speaking activities.
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Language Learning- Likes and Preferences

Students make language learning recommendations based on their partner's likes, dislikes and future desires, useful as like and would like practice and learner training, with strong and weak language of preferences, and freer practice.
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Language Learning- Likes, Preferences and Desires

Advice, likes and preferences speaking, with presentation of differences between useful phrases, also good for learner training.
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Leading Seminars/Discussions Politeness Competition Game

Making phrases for controlling group discussions more formal speaking game, including rude language for starting and ending seminar sessions and group discussions to improve.
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Learning and Using English Monologues- Active Listening Practice

Students use active listening phrases as their partners talk about learning English, then try to remember the two kinds of phrases for not listening in silence - also useful for learner training.
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Legal English- Supporting your Arguments

Students ask questions to get more support for arguments they are listening to such as examples and personal experiences, brainstorm useful phrases for supporting arguments with other sources etc, then can use that language in freer speaking about law.
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Like & Don’t like TPR coin game

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.
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Like & don’t like- coin games

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.
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Like & Don’t Like- Common 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.
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Like & Don’t Like- Things In Common Sentence Completion

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,
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Like & Would Like- Food Roleplay Dialogue

A fun suggesting new food for your partner game with points and winners, for preferences and future desires/ offers with "like" practice, showing the differences between "like" and "would like"
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Like + Gerund Dice Game

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.
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Like and Would Like- Make me say yes speaking 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.
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Like- Alphabet Coin Game

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

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.
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Longer Advice Phrases- Card Games

More complex giving recommendations and suggestions card games
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Longer Opinions Phrases- Card Game

More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games
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Looking at Both Sides- Dominoes

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.
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Needs Analysis & Brainstorming Phrases

Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.
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Needs Analysis- Extended Speaking and Instant Practice

Students give mini-presentations on using English, roleplay typical situations where they need to use their English skills, then discuss how to improve their knowledge and abilities outside the classroom.
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