Intermediate ESL Lesson Plans (Page 5)

Students try to use passive voice as much as they can as they repeat back what their partner said about the suggested topics, with suggested extensions and a link to the topic of job applications.

Closed questions with passive voice speaking games, for easy practice of different passive tenses, including points for getting positive answers and a fun lying game.

Different meanings of past tenses, including unreal past

Listening for what times are being talked about, including a tense review and time expressions review, great for TOEIC Listening preparation.

Discussing the value for different kinds of people for society, with jobs vocabulary practice

Learning personality words and examining gender issues

Students roll a dice twice to decide what verb and particle (adverb or preposition) to use to make an example sentence or continue a story, with three versions so over 100 possible combinations.

Card game to memorise phrasal verbs

Phrases for giving examples speaking game

How to use and how not to use the imperative for requests, orders/ commands/ instructions and (especially) offers in business and personal emails.

Eliciting the differences between the language of arrangements, plans and predictions by thinking about which is more polite to talk about in negative responses to invitations, also with a little work on other polite/ formal language.

Students practise restaurant vocabulary and phrases with yes/ no questions and a coin, analyse the language by who says it and the function, then practise more with a dice game and finally freer practice.

Guessing the strange locations for fun prepositions practice

Different past forms of can practice through a fun lying game.

Have + PP and Past Simple in everyday conversation review, including presentation of the meaning, uses and typical time expressions of those two tenses, and typical small talk questions with classmates and people outside the classroom.

Roleplay progress check meetings for Present Perfect practice, including an optional coin game and a grammar presentation - good for realistic practice of grammar in Business English classes.

Using present tenses questions, statements and related time expressions to describe what you do and what your company does to new contacts review, plus an optional bluffing game.

Describing places with present tenses activities

Suggested vocabulary/ topics with which to discuss and write present tense opinions - good for intermediate students who still need Present Simple and Progressive practice.

Present Continuous and Present Simple situations to discuss in meetings, to remember, to analyse for key words such as time expressions, including useful vocabulary for describing changes with the language of trends.

Analysing and using the language of advice to give recommendations on how to solve environmental problems

Formal and informal phrases for starting and ending business and academic presentations

Air travel processes to practise Present Simple Passive and Past Simple Passive, with useful phrases for describing the steps in a process, so also useful for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1.

Making up false meanings of proverbs bluffing game

Lying game to practise phrases for quoting sources, especially useful for EAP classes

Places for foreign visitors to go to speaking.

Two fun reported questions speaking games, starting with small talk and with a grammar presentation in between.

A lying game for fun oral practice of indirect speech, with an optional grammar presentation, with suggested typical conversations to report.

Typical confusions with reported speech review through labelling diffences in meaning and synonyms, including backshift and no backshift, and different reporting verbs.

Typical phrases, names of events, reported speech, reporting verbs and cultural differences practice, starting with a guessing game and with an indirect speech grammar presentation.

Grammar words in phrases for business reports pairwork

How to respond to requests practice activities

Presentation or practice of how to respond to requests and asking for information through predicting the next line of typical dialogues and then brainstorming useful phrases.

Please + verb for offers and commands/ orders/ instructions presentation through contrasts with the language of requests, for and through the topic of the language of meetings, including error correction and sentence completion.

Realistic requests in the classroom setting speaking

Discussing films with if + past simple, would

Deciding what policies you would put in place with second conditional sentences

Sense verbs practice on the environment

Students put cards together to match three typical shopper responses to things that shop assistants often say to them, then are tested on the language in other ways.

The three pronunciations of -ed pronunciation and speaking practice

Completing sentences with the Past Simple tense games

How to start, continue and end conversations at trade shows

Guessing sports yes/ no questions games

Extended speaking on spectator sports

Brainstorming kinds of sports and then speaking about them

Beginning and finishing meetings phrases presentation and practice