ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 4)

Positive, negative and ambiguous responses in negotiations review, with a simplest responses games, brainstorming with key words, and using key words in negotiating roleplays.

Students split and sort out cut up and mixed up formal and casual negotiations, analyse the language in them, test each other on the phrases, then roleplay internal and external negotiations with people they know and don't know.

How to get ready for a job interview on the phone

Positive and negative connotations in business vocabulary storytelling speaking.

Using sounds and actions to present and practise Present Progressive for business students

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous for business students

Good and bad presenting roleplays and useful phrases

Good presentations tips and language

Discussing solutions to company issues with "too..." and with "not enough", rephrasing sentences with those expressions, then freer problems and solutions speaking.

Using more common emailing phrases practice

Using the language of generalisation and advice to talk about reports with useful language for writing such reports, including soft and strong recommendations presentation.

Using reporting verbs in polite business communication

Reported speech to report on meetings

Polite negative responses to inquiries

How many countable things and how much of uncountable things to put in a new office roleplay discussion, with quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns presentation.

Past Simple for business classes pronunciation and speaking

Students memorise and practise the most useful phrases for beginning and ending negotiations, starting with a fun quick responses listening game, then using key words to remember each phrase.

Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review

Improving too casual or rude presentation starters speaking game, ranking formal and informal beginning presentation phrases, generalising about formality, and choosing the best phrases for each person.

Easy and then more and more challenging telephoning roleplays

Writing up notes from meetings review

Functional language for teleconferences review

Improving rude teleconferencing and video conferencing phrases

Discussing times in a roleplay meeting speaking practice, with how to pronounce time expressions and prepositions in time expressions presentations

Good and bad beginnings of presentations tips, then brainstorming useful language to do the good things, including greetings, personal introductions, hooks and outlining the presentation.

Emailing phrases which are usually too informal or too formal/ old-fashioned for work emails to make into more common business emailing phrases, including generalising about what makes emails formal/ polite or informal/ friendly.

How and what to email after business emails

Explaining why things are good business ideas with how the world is changing - good language of trends and supporting your opinions practice, with lots of useful business vocabulary.

Roleplaying teleconferences and video conferences, and brainstorming suitable language

Negotiating with people inside your company and outside your company free speaking, including suggested topics and people to negotiate with (suppliers, your boss, etc).

Memory game based on a typical business report, helping students to memorise useful phrases for the beginning, body, ending and headings of reports.

Writing reports practice, including a big list of typical topics

Speaking with vocabulary from IELTS exam listening and reading texts on business and economics

Students use realistic FCE key word sentence transformation root sentences to make exam tasks to challenge other students with, for language points like linking words, passive voice and idioms.

Speaking practice of the past of can/ can't through discussion questions, with a grammar presentation and freer practice through question stems.

Meetings on HR roleplays board game

Personality adjective antonyms jigsaw and memory card game, with detailed instructions for teachers.

Glossary of seasonal vocabulary

Green issues related to Xmas conversation questions

Christmas vocabulary practice through restaurant roleplays.

Prepositons in past, present and future time expressions Christmas trivia quiz, making questions to get the answers given.

Practising passive voice by making lies for other groups to spot

Xmas mingling speaking activity

Both meanings of going to practice for seasonal classes

Words that end in the same sound practice with the famous Xmas song

Making predictions about future Christmases to practise Future Simple

Spotting and changing mistakes in the Xmas poem

Practising strong and weak recommendations language, appearance collocations and typical confusions between clothese and appearance words with a fun speaking task.

ESL lesson plan on typical errors with cohesive devices. Students label mistakes and correct them using a list of expressions.

Verb plus noun collocations practise by discussing what to do in situations with make and do, including a missing verbs version, with advice phrases presentation and practice.