Intermediate ESL Lesson Plans (Page 3)

Students put a making and responding to questions conversation in order, memorise it, analyse the language, then take part in similar exchanges.

Students use relative clauses to explain useful vocabulary for the B2 First exam, also useful practice for talking around unknown vocabulary in the Cambridge First Speaking test.

Students complete sentences together with relative clauses to make sentences they both agree on, also good practice for the language of opinions.

Similar and different looking at both sides phrases

Similar and different ways of describing how to get somewhere

Students practise passive voice by discussing what a good product should do then trying to sell that idea to other groups, good for business and ESP students, including Technical English classes.

Discussing the best way to learn English to practise relative clauses.

Key word sentence transformations on email and letter language for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two.

Formal and informal making and responding to requests and enquiries model emails memorisation game, ending with brainstorming useful phrases for the beginning, middle and end.

Vocabulary to make and talk about emails and telephone calls

Formal and informal emails review

Similar and different starting and ending emails phrases

Working out what you can realisitically guess before Cambridge First Listening tasks game, including aspects of what should go in the gap like part of speech and kind of noun.

A review of everything in Cambridge First Listening, including descriptions of what students have to do in each part, starting with students analysing the paper themselves.

Tying together Cambridge First Speaking and Writing with Writing tasks on typical Speaking Part One subjects that students first discuss then plan.

Good and bad Cambridge First essays tips to choose from, then trying to remember useful phrases to go with the good tips, including important topics like starting and ending Writing Part One tasks.

Students try to think of the most useful phrases for Cambridge First essays, then use key words to help and to make the language memorable, including typical language for important things like supporting opinions and opening.

Language for formal and informal Cambridge First letters and emails review, starting with a fun jigsaw task and including the most useful phrases for opening and closing correspondence.

Phrases for Cambridge B2 First emails, letters and reports

Use of English key word sentence transformations-style practice of the most useful phrases for formal letters and informal emails in Cambridge First Writing Part Two.

Phrases that help students work out if what is said is or isn't the right answer in Cambridge First Listening, with language taken from official exams, starting with a listening game.

Intensive practice of the colloborative task in Cambridge B2 First Speaking Part 3 with tactics like expressing opposite points of view, speculating, and comparing.

Common errors in Cambridge B2 First speaking, in FCE Use of English style activities

Personalised speaking as a needs analysis, tying in with personal questions in Cambridge B2 First Speaking

Questions about different topics and times in Cambridge B2 First Speaking game

Practice of vital comparing and guessing language for Cambridge First Speaking (especially B2 First Speaking Part Two) along with students getting to know each other, perfect for first lessons.

This lesson plan focuses on the differences between similar words in FCE Use of English Part One. Students practice creating questions and answering multiple-choice questions to test their understanding.

Students quickly write as many different example sentences as they can with words from official B2 FIrst Use of English Part Two tasks, then check what other groups have written.

Cambridge B2 First Use of English gap-fill task games. Students compete to create grammatically correct sentences with missing words. They also contrast the uses of easily confused words.

Practising past, present and future tense with Cambridge B2 First Use of English Part Two open cloze tasks.

Discussing good ways to do and prepare for Cambridge B2 First Writing.

Vocabulary and phrases to write formal job application letters in B2 First Writing Part 2.

Useful vocabulary and phrases for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two brainstorming.

Have something done for passive-style sentences speaking practice, including finding things in common, monologues on good topics for have something done, and pairwork discussion - good for Cambridge First Use of English prep.

Cambridge First Use of English Part Two gapfill tasks practice through classification and making tasks for each other card games.

Students make realistic and unrealistic requests and proposals with suggested trades in the right form of conditional, predict the response, and sees what their partner really says - with first conditional vs second conditional presentation and practice.

Cambridge B2 First Speaking on the future

Comparing foods speaking with suggested comparative adjectives to talk about foodstuffs, followed by a forming comparatives grammar presentation.

Competing to think of food vocabulary