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Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 1)

Teaching beginner ESL? Discover practical PDF lesson plans that promote student engagement and language development. Enhance your teaching approach and create a positive learning experience.

Beginner ESL Lesson Plans, Page: 1

Find a wealth of practical, engaging, and well-structured lesson plans designed to transform your teaching experience. Our collection offers diverse activities and resources to help you engage your students, develop their language skills, and create a positive and dynamic learning environment. Whether you're a seasoned ESL teacher or just starting, our beginner PDF lesson plans will empower you to deliver effective and impactful lessons that maximise student learning.

Browse page 1 of our collection of 221 Beginner ESL Lesson Plans using the links below.

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A & An Drawing Games

Indefinite articles pick and draw drawing games.
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Abilities of Animals Can/ Can’t Games

What animals can and can't do games.
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Adjectives and Animals- Mix and Match

Funny and sensible matches between animals and adjectives book, cards and table activities.
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Adverbs of Frequency- Bluffing Card Game

Lying card game to practise sometimes, usually, never, etc.
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Adverbs of Frequency- Describe the Jobs Game

Using adverbs of frequency to describe what people do games.
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Adverbs of Manner Games

How you do things games, including TPR and a ladder game.
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Alphabet Dice Game- Favourites

Making personal sentences about favourites with different letters of the alphabet dice game.
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Alphabet Homophones and Minimal Pairs

Words and letters which are and aren't pronounced the same as letters of the alphabet.
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Are you…? Hangman

Present Simple of be guessing games, including spelling practice.
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Basic Adjectives- Make Me Say ‘Yes’

Personal yes no questions with easy adjectives speaking game.
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Basic Personal Questions Coin Bluffing Game

Simple questions lying game.
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Basic Questions about Animals

Easy questions practice on the topic of animals, including animal vocabulary games.
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Big Numbers- American and British English

How to say hundreds, thousands, millions and billions in the US and UK
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Business English- Present Perfect Pronunication and Speaking

Updates and experiences controlled speaking and roleplay
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Business English- Present Simple & Continuous guessing game

Practising present tenses by guessing common business English verbs
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Can & Can’t Drawing Coin Game

Modals of ability practice, flipping a coin to decide what to draw, and guessing what the other person's drawings mean, including fun things to sketch like "The beetle can drive a car".
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Can & Can’t- Coin Games

Fun practice of abilities modals with a coin for finding things in common, getting particular answers, bluffing, guessing and finding differences.
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Can a kangaroo drink your blood? Animal Abilities Mix and Match

Students make funny and then serious questions on the abililties of animals to practise can and can't by turning flaps in a book
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Can you eat your house? Abilities Mix and Match

Making funny and sensible "Can you...?" questions activities.
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Can, can’t and prepositions dice game

Prepositions of position and abilities dice game.
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Christmas- Adverbs of Frequency

Guessing the frequency of common Xmas traditions around the world
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Christmas- Past Tense Mimes

Practising narrative tenses while learning about Xmas
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Christmas- Present Simple & Continuous Mimes

Linking present tenses and the festive season with TPR and then personalised speaking
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Classroom Instructions- Imperative Mix and Match

Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.
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Classroom Instructions- Number & Word Recognition TPR Practice

Imperative and number words practice, including reading basic number words and understanding typical classroom instructions and classroom vocabulary.
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Classroom Prepositions Flashcards

Putting flashcards around the class games.
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Classroom Treasure Hunt- Prepositions

Making and solving treasure hunt puzzles with prepositions of position
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Classroom Vocabulary- First Letters Games

Practising first letter phonics by slapping, sketching and remembering things in the classroom that start with letters A to Z, plus CH, SH and TH.
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Clothes- Possessives Drawing Game

Picking cards and drawing clothes on people and animals to practise possessive S, including funny pictures like "That cat's socks".
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Colour Word Jigsaws

Learning how to read and write colour words jigsaw activities, including easier and more difficult versions.
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Colour Word Search Games

Colour word recognition word search activities.
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Colours and Numbers Flashcard Games

Colour and number word practice through flashcard games.
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Colours and Numbers- Word Searching Game

Colour and number word recognition practice through word searches.
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Colours and Objects- Dice Games

True and false statements about colours of objects dice games, including classroom vocab, names of clothes, names of animals,
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Colours Brainstorming Games

Choosing a colour plus noun and trying to think of as many examples as they can games, including variations to make it faster and livelier.
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Colours, Numbers and Classroom Objects- Pick & Draw

Students make sentences to be drawn on a picture of the classroom, including silly sentences like "Nine orange CD players if they like", with option cards to practise "an" with.
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Colours- Guessing Game

Guess the colour games.
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Colours- Make Me Say Yes- Personalised Speaking

Personal yes no questions about colours speaking games, with one point for positive answers, including questions with do and have.
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Countable and Uncountable- Pick & Draw

Students make sensible or silly drawings in response to how many or how much questions and answers with there is/ are, countable and uncountable nouns, and prepositions of position.
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Countable and Uncountable- Your Week

Students compare how much and how many in their recent lives, for personalised count and non-count nouns speaking practice.
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Countries and Nationalities- Speaking Game

Guessing nationalities by people and things from that place
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Country and Nationality Statements- Bluffing Games

True and false statements with country and nationality words speaking.
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Country and Nationality Words Drawing Games

Students draw and guess countries and famous things from those countries to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives,
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Country and Nationality Words Reversi Card Game

A fun memory card game based on Othello to memorise names of countries and nationality adjectives, including versions in full sentences with Present Simple of be, with third person and with contractions.
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Days and Dates- True or False Game

Students are tested on their understanding of days of the week, months, and other dates, first of all with quick reaction games, including lively TPR variations for young learners.
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