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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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Negotiating- Insurance Roleplays

Great practice of negotiating and English for the insurance industry and financial English more generally, with students using and trying to remember typical insurance vocabulary used in negotiating roleplays.
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Negotiations- Responding

Choosing between suitable, unsuitable and comically bad negotiating responses, trying to remember the good ones, then analysing them for the best language and tactics.
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Opening and Closing Formal and Informal Emails and Letters

Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review
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Opinions on Xmas and New Year liberal and conservative views discussion

Giving, agreeing with and disagreeing with opinions on end of year and New Year festivities speaking, including seeing if those opinions match your political outlook
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Personalised Instant Roleplays

Students explain and then roleplay typical realistic situations for them to use English for business and ESP communication, including face to face, on the phone and by email - great for first classes and as a lead-in to needs analysis.
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Personalised instant roleplays for logistics

English for logistics students describe typical realistic English situations for them then roleplay communicating face to face, on the phone or by email, and reflect on how the interaction went - good for first classes as a kind of needs analysis.
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Phrases for explaining festivals and celebrations challenge

Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.
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Phrases for giving examples practice game

Phrases for giving examples speaking game
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Presentations- Aims

Deciding and stating the purpose of your presentation review, including bad examples to improve
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Presentations- Formality

How to start formal and informal presentations review, including a jigsaw task.
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Presentations- Introducing Yourself

Good and bad ways to do personal introductions in presentations.
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Presentations- Planning Stage

Discussing and arranging steps to get a presentation ready.
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Quoting Practice Game

Lying game to practise phrases for quoting sources, especially useful for EAP classes
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Ranking Weak and Strong Opinion Phrases

Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.
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Recommendations and Invitations for Visitors

Places for foreign visitors to go to speaking.
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Recommendations with Movie Vocabulary

Words and phrases to describe films speaking and vocabulary brainstorming, also good for the language of recommendations practice.
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Requests & Enquiries Board Game

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.
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Requests and Enquiries- Line-by-line Brainstorming

Presentation or practice of how to respond to requests and asking for information through predicting the next line of typical dialogues and then brainstorming useful phrases.
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Requests in the Classroom Game

Realistic requests in the classroom setting speaking
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Responding to Requests- Politeness Completion Game

Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses
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Sharing Personal Experiences- Phrases Practice

Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking
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Shopping Dialogue- Jigsaw Text

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

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

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.
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Social English problems and solutions

Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases
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Speaker or Listener- Simplest Responses Game

Turn taking phrases and active listening phrases presentation and practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and continuing with brainstorming and classifying useful language.
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Starting and Ending Conversations- Disappearing Text Memory Game

Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.
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Starting and Ending Conversations- Simplest Responses

Beginning and closing conversations phrases review starting with a fun quick reactions game, with students then trying to remember and classifying the start and end of conversations language.
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Strong & Weak Opinions

Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.
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Strong and Weak Medical Advice

Strong recommendations and weak recommendations with medical vocabulary speaking, with suggested medical problems to discuss and a functional language presentation.
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Strong and Weak Opinions

Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.
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Strong and weak opinions on the news and media

Current affairs vocabulary and strong opinion and weak opinion phrases presentation and speaking practice, with model opinions to discuss then freer speaking.
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Stronger and Weaker Hedging Language

Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.
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Telecommuting Policies- Roleplay Meeting

Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.
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Telephone Phrases- Brainstorming and Roleplays

Completing telephoning phrases through brainstorming and roleplays. Students practice different phrases for telephoning situations. They test each other in pairs and roleplay conversations.
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Things to do when you interrupt

Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.
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Travel and Tourism Recommendations- Numbers Practice

Pronouncing numbers, giving advice and travel and tourism vocabulary speaking practice, including students discussing their own real travel suggestions based on typical situations for using numbers.
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Travel English- Imperatives and Requests Practice

Contrasting commands and offers from travel staff with please + verb with requests from travellers with can/ could, including the most common phrases to say and hear while travelling.
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Travel English- Simplest Responses and Key Words Games

Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.
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Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion

Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.
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Valentine’s Day in different places comparing practice

Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.
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Weather and Advice Practice

Suggestions phrases and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested questions and weather words to ask for advice with.
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