ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 6)

Speaking practice of telling people about seasonal and special festivals and celebrations from your own and other cultures

Asking and answering object and subject questions about festivals and celebrations speaking, with subject questions grammar presentation and names of important festivals and celebrations.

Describing international festivals and celebrations for passive voice practice

Guess the food from the passive voice hints game, with a grammar presentation and common foods to need to explain to other people.

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and personalised speaking game to practise contrasting adjectives ending with -ed and -ing, with useful free time vocabulary.

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and/ or personalised speaking game to practise adjectives ending with -ed and -ing for feelings and properties, with useful jobs vocabulary.

Like as a verb and preposition practice talking about places

Putting adjectives in the right order before nouns practice as students describe natural and urban places, including useful names of places vocabulary.

Describing presentation slides phrases presentation and practice

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

Talking about society with different passive tenses, including a guessing game.

Guessing game for passive and techical English practice, moving onto a grammar presentation and work on engineering collocations, synonyms, abbreviations, etc.

Using have (got) and doesn't have/ hasn't got in a guessing game and brainstorming descriptions game with Christmas vocabulary

Students guess the places with and without "the" like "France" and "The Big Apple", then try to remember which places and which kinds of places need the definite article.

Articles and quantifiers with count and non-count nouns to make general statements and with other meanings review

Similar but not identical conversational reaction phrases

Short texts with tips on how to do true/ false/ not given, diagram labelling, etc, followed by comprehension questions of that type.

Students review expressions that have different meanings in the UK and US and so could be confusing with a fun jigsaw exercise.

Students practise the different ways that they might hear numbers pronounced with a memory card game based on Othello, including different ways of saying large and small numbers.

Practising architecture vocabulary and numbers together

An easy and fun introduction to embedded questions through a quick reactions game and common small talk questions.

Common small talk questions, taboo small talk questions, and ones in between that need to be made indirect, with embedded questions presentation and practice.

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

Gradable and ungradable adjectives practice through the topic of seasonal events like Xmas and Halloween, including names of festivals and celebrations, and adverbs with different kinds of adjectives.

Speaking about what is good manners and bad manners to practise adjectives describing feelings and properties of things, including -ed/ -ing pairs and more irregular word formation.

Outsourcing and insourcing business discussion

Describing where you live conversation questions

Fun double consonants before suffixes presentation/ practice

Suffixes that work like magic E practice, with simplest responses fast reactions game

Listening to consonant blends quick reactions game

Consonant blends in common words speaking

Initial and final consonant blends personalised pairwork speaking

Basic consonant blends practice

Missing sounds in fast IELTS gapfill answers

Grammar of email and phone phrases games

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.

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

How to divide up the information in an email into clear paragraphs

Email phrases that can finish in different ways practice.

More and more polite emailing phrases game, with an optional brainstorming stage and key words for making emails more formal.

Prepositions in typical emailing phrases guessing game

A, an, the, some, etc in typical emailing phrases

A fun matching starting and finishing emails phrases by meaning/ use and formality jigsaw activity, followed by students trying to remember key phrases.

Common problems with splitting emails into paragraphs reviews, including making rules of good email paragraphing and covering email openings, closings and body paragraphs.

Stimulating work on avoiding typical confusions in emails by classifying common emailing phrases by shared meaning and different formality or different meaning, then trying to remember the similarities and differences.

Different ways to end typical emailing phrases brainstorming tasks.

Past, present and future forms of verbs in typical emailing phrases review, including useful language for starting emails, the body of emails, and ending emails.

Giving advice on good emailing, with useful emailing phrases

Dealing with emailing situations roleplays and useful language.

A fun way of reviewing typical emails and the most useful emailing language, moving around the board by how much useful language they can remember.