Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 5)

Talking about spring, summer, autumn and winter with frequency expressions speaking activities, including a fun guessing game and personalised practice by finding seasonal feelings, actions, etc that you share.

Prepositions of position with there is/ are speaking game in which students try to get positive answers to personal questions with this grammar, with both basic and more difficult prepositions of location, and controlled and freer speaking.

Initial phonics and third person of Present Simple practice through the fun challenge of trying to answer questions with words starting with each letter of the alphabet.

Present Simple with -s practice with a coin deciding if students should lie or tell the truth and their partner guessing if it was fact or imagination, followed by controlled practice of negative third person Present Simple.

Fun active practice of this/ that and simple word recognition through students racing to touch the right one of two cards with the same word on.

Four adverbs of frequency and times with at, in and on speaking card games and grammar presentation, including asking questions to get particular answers and finding shared personal information.

Pairwork general knowledge quiz with interesting questions on times when particular things happen, including extra hints like "A little earlier" and optional controlled practice of twelve and twenty four hour clock times.

Learning useful vocabulary and clock times through flashcard memory games.

Making general statements together on times that people usually do things, inclduding useful vocabulary for talking about routines.

Students make up wrong options with used to, test each other's general knowledge, then answer grammar presentation questions about the past tense that they have just been using.

A fun drawing Valentine's Day pictures/ cards activity for prepositions of position and there is/ there are practice.

Matching verb plus infinitive and verb plus gerund memory game, for low-level learners

Want and want to for future desires and prepositions of location practice with personalised speaking and sketching the answers.

Discussing how often with weather vocabulary

Functional language of invitations and weather words and phrases, including invitations which are suitable for different kinds of weather, and using weather vocabulary to give excuses for turning down invitations.

Fun personalised practice of words and phrases for common and less common weather through a lying speaking game, with words that go together to describe weather presentation.

Present Simple with frequency expressions and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested discussion questions and vocabulary brainstorming.

Two personalised questions with demonstratives drawing card games to practise possessives

Closed questions with can oral pairs card game, with one point for the same answer to "Can...?" questions matching the two cards that are chosen, including common abilities topics and verbs.