Advanced ESL Lesson Plans (Page 3)

Modals with probability and other meanings review

Students try to make and explain phrasal verbs with a fun card game based on pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game, but with any combination okay as long as they can justify it.

Opinions language review for first classes

Affixes to make opposites jigsaw activities, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.

Practising giving and responding to opinions phrases and current affairs vocabulary, first with speaking and then by brainstorm relevant words and phrases.

Idioms including numbers to guess

Strong and weak giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases

Language for describing and talking about parks, especially useful for gardeners and architects

Clauses with present and past participles and no subject practice through sentences to complete and three fun personalised speaking games

Using passive voice to talk about the past, present and future review, starting with an ecology trivia quiz, with an optional extension where students make similar questions for each other.

Students give and discuss their opinions using suggested passive voice sentences for talking about cause and effect, predictions, etc, then try to remember the past, present and future passive voice forms that they were just using.

ESL lesson plan on past, present, and future inventions. Includes vocabulary, speaking activities, and roleplays.

Common and amusing politically correct language review

Antonyms with different prefixes to discuss and then remember - good for academic writing and opinions practice in advanced classes.

Nouns that take two prefixes with opposite meanings jigsaw task, good for academic vocabulary and C2 level classes.

Discussing public spaces like squares and parks with useful vocabulary

Giving advice on relationships with proverbs speaking

Discussion with vocabulary related to sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste

Game for vocabulary related to sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste

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

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

Business idioms from the world of sport review

Other meanings of vocabulary used to describe sports

Adding adverbs etc to Unreal Past

ESL lesson plan on identifying whether words in academic writing tasks have the same or different meanings. Students use cards to indicate their answers.

This lesson plan focuses on UK and US political vocabulary and systems. Students identify differences, similarities, and meanings of terms.

Choosing the best (and least bad) way of describing yourself in academic applications

Discussing what a great academic application is and how to write it

Describing your character in university application essays

Getting ready to write an academic application essay

The process of applying for university worksheets

Verb with object, infinitive, infinitive with to and -ing matching memory game, based on the card game "pairs"

Life in the UK vocabulary listening game.

A fun card game based on Othello to help memorise different forms of words, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.

must/ might/ may/ could + have + past participle to discuss likely and unlikely explanations for historical events