ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 5)

Making compound nouns and similar collocations by meaning and number of syllables activity, for vocabulary and pronunciation practice, with extra counting syllables practice.

Students work together to correct typical mistakes in emailing openings, closings and body paragraphs, including phrases for common emails like requests, enquiries and making arrangements.

Drawing to practise comparatives.

Students make funny and then sensible yes no questions comparing people, animals and things with adjectives with -er, -ier and more.

Students ask for and give advice on better language learning, then try to remember the comparative forms which they used in that discussion.

Giving opinions with comparing forms speaking, with adverbs with comparatives presentation and freer speaking practice.

Acting out adjectives with -er, -ier and more activities, with Elementary-level and Intermediate-level versions.

Students make crazy or sensible sentences with comparatives to draw like "The cockroach is taller than the boy".

Students request better treatment at work then try to remember the comparatives in the requests, good for comparative adjectives practice in Business English classes.

Comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives storytelling speaking.

Personal yes no questions with comparative adjectives game, with points for positive answers.

Practising comparing language personalised speaking

Practising comparative by talking about similarities and differences between places.

A fun card game to practise describing places and comparative adjectives, with many adjectives of place names.

Count and non-count nouns practice by comparing places.

Polite and over-polite phrases for dealing with complaints

Phrases to politely disagree with "but" review.

Contrasting conjunctions and other linking expressions cards with four speaking activities.

Linking and intrusive sounds when letters are said next to each other

Changed sounds in IELTS Listening answers at natural speed

Students build up words with three consonants at the beginning and end by adding sounds to shorter words, to make pronunciation easier and make sure they don't add syllables.

Minimal pairs and homophones with consonant + consonant groups of sounds like pl and ngs

Different kinds of customer and kinds of insurance speaking

A fun types of words which are usually countable and uncountable speaking board game which students move around depending on the answers of their partners (without the need for a dice).

Countable nouns that have the same meaning as uncountable nouns matching game

Countable and uncountable presentation through guessing the place game

Deciding what to take on your travels countable and uncountable nouns discussion.

Deciding how many/ much countable and uncountable nouns discussion

Students plan how much and how many of count and non-count food and drink to include in a multinational lunch, including nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings.

A speaking game in which students try to get particular answers with how much and how many questions, including Make Me Say Yes and a card game, good for quantifiers with count and non-count nouns.

Students discuss how to stock a new kitchen with count and non-count food and drink, including practice of making uncountable nouns countable with words for containers.

Roleplay Business English speaking activities for count and non-count nouns practice, including meetings and negotiations situations to act out.

Personalised speaking practice of count and non-count nouns on the topic of students' recent lives, including quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentation.

Practising count and non-count nouns and learner training as students discuss good ways to learn English, also good practice for the language of advice.

Yes no questions with names of countries and nationality adjective + noun games, followed by students drilling nationality adjectives word formation.

Lying game to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives, with suggested yes no questions about countries and things from particular places.

Students play games by completing typical sentences for country and nationality words, including finding things in common, bluffing, and guessing.

Students tell stories based on useful crime and law vocabulary, using their imaginations if they like, classify that vocabulary, then test each other on it in different ways.

Crime vocabulary discussion questions

Students practise different ways of saying dates and common confusions between dates, firstly with a fast reactions The Same or Different game, then classifying the dates, and finally testing each other.

Students match typical replies to unhappy customers, then try to remember useful phrases for apologising, promising future action, etc.

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.

Using relative pronouns to explain medical vocabulary activities

Students use relative clauses to define what the listener doesn't know in informal personal chats, following on from typical small talk questions and answers.

Look like, smell like, taste like etc with animal vocabulary

Describing physical appearance with nouns and adjectives plus verbs speaking.

Passive voice lesson for engineers

Using passive to describe classroom objects guessing game, with passive speaking practice, passive voice grammar presentation, and useful vocabulary.

Using there is and there are to describe and guess different parts of the world