Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 4)

Two fun students miming actions with particular positions games, including racing to do the right thing in the right place, and guessing what and where the other person's action is.

Students make silly and sensible sentences from cards with prepositions of location

Students find positions that they share with their partner like having things in the same places in their house, good for prepositions of location and GTKY/ classroom dynamics.

Students make and follow instructions for how to stack things for fun active sit-down prepositions of location practice.

Fun Present Progressive and prepositions of location practice by rolling a dice and drawing what comes up in the table, including funny combinations like "I'm walking under a red house".

Miming free-time activities TPR game for kids

Three fun practice games for names of places and Present Progressive, with a guessing game and two drawing games.

Funny and sensible prepositions of position and Present Continuous matching activities.

Easy and fun practice of Present Simple and Continuous through actions to represent jobs, including useful jobs vocabulary and actions at work vocabulary.

Clothes vocabulary and Present Continuous practice through constructing sentences and drawing them, including funny combinations like "The snowman is wearing an orange swimsuit", and optional blank cards.

Present Continuous in normal everyday chat review for practice of realistic situations like talking to classmates and meeting foreign visitors, including contrasting present and future meanings, and Present Simple and Continuous.

Present Simple with adverbs of frequency guessing game

A fun creative Present Simple speaking activity based on Consequences in which students take turns continuing a story of a typical day by completing the suggested sentences then folding the page, then compare how sensible or silly their stories are.

Students try to find out what good or bad aspects their partner has on their roleplay card, all written with Present Simple for routines/ habits and general facts.

Students ask Present Simple questions to find out which of three jobs or countries most match their partner, possible with yes/ no and/ or wh- questions.

Completing Present Simple sentences about different cultures with man, woman, men or women

Students find out about each other and their language study needs with Present Simple questions, good for a first lesson and GTKY.

Students use Present Simple to try to find similarities between the routines of the people described on their worksheets, with optional Present Simple suggested questions and clues to help.

Students complete typical Present Simple sentences with a mix of true and made-up information, then try to guess which of their partner's sentences are true, including typical key words with Present Simple.

Students classify, ask, answer and write Present Simple questions which are and aren't suitable for everyday conversation, then discuss what topics are generally good and bad.

A fun Present Simple personal questions coin game based on truth or dare in which students might have to answer their own questions, with useful language for talking about routines and Present Simple question stems.

Guessing which of six people your partner chose by asking easy Present Simple questions about their family, appearance, habits, etc.

Speaking game in which students move around a board without a dice by making as many true Present Simple statements about their partner as they can about the word/ topic of the square they are on.

Present Simple with final -s speaking games, first guessing the person and then brainstorming descriptions, with useful vocabulary for describing people with Present Simple.

Present time expressions questions, things in common and opinions speaking card games, with a prepositions of time grammar presentation.

Arranging months and dates card games, with optional more challenging and fun variations, followed by writing dates practice.

Ordering mixed up days of the week flashcards activities.

Ordering mixed up months flashcards games.

Actions you do every day vocabulary mixing activities.

Yes/ No questions with can speaking game

Sc with pronounced C and silent C practice, starting with a quick reactions game, with contrasts to words with SK and S, homophones, and silent letters.

Personalised oral practice of basic education vocabulary by students finding experiences and feelings that they share, with school vocabulary short forms, affixes, collocations and antonyms.

Mixed conversations in shops to cut up and put in order, followed by students testing each other on the shop assistant and customer phrases.

TPR practice of phrases for shoppers and shop assistants, starting with a guessing game and then students testing each other on the language.

Basic adjectives speaking

Single letter or double letter puzzle activity

Two plural nouns TPR games, with easier plurals, more difficult plurals and words which always take -s like "trousers", with students racting to identify the mime and/ or do suitable actions.

Apostrophe before and after possessive S miming, speaking and spelling TPR games for active practice around the class.

Present Simple questions for small talk in business situations.

Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.

Students answer subject questions based on drawings of the answers, with amusing examples like a giraffe's scarf and a kangaroo's shoes - also good for animal and clothes vocabulary.

Two yes/ no questions with want to personalised speaking games, including names of places practice in the second getting positive responses game.