Intermediate ESL Lesson Plans (Page 6)

Defining crime and punishment vocabulary through answering subject questions with "Who...?", with optional subject questions grammar presentation and crime vocabulary further practice.

Students share opinions with adjectives with most and -est then try to remember and classify the superlative forms.

A fun superlatives card game based on Othello for memorising adjectives with most and -est by guessing the superlative with the same or opposite meaning on the other side of the card.

Miming English for engineers sentences

English for engineers abbreviations

Phrases for speaking on the phone and in person review

Completing telephoning phrases through brainstorming and roleplays. Students practice different phrases for telephoning situations. They test each other in pairs and roleplay conversations.

Solving communication problems to practise telephoning

Talking about future plans, arrangements, predictions and spontaneous intentions on the phone with going to, Present Continuous and will review, including roleplays and model phrases.

Vocabulary to talk about and make phone calls review, including guessing games.

Tricky telephoning roleplays for checking/ clarifying practice

Useful checking/ clarifying questions on financial and business vocabulary, particularly for the insurance industry

How to thank and respond to thanks review

Game for practising thanking

Turn taking language games practicing the language of interrupting presentation and practice

Past tenses sentence completion personalised guessing game.

On and at with days and times Present Simple pairwork game

A good first class for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate level classes, in which students ask each other needs analysis/ gettting to know you questions in present tenses, try to remember those questions, then analyse the grammar.

TOEIC-listening style practice of basic telephoning language

What happens in real television commercials and what it means to practise Present Progressive and Simple followed by freer practic, good for grammar in Business English classes, especially with students in sales and marketing.

Guessing the situation from wishes

Talking about the origins of language, and expressions which used to be used and are still okay

Using "used to" to talk about how westernised your country has become

Origins of tech vocab discussion for practice of the past tense "used to"

Used to to describe UK customs

Verb with infinitive, gerund and someone matching memory game

Personalised speaking practice of verb + to + verb and verb + verb with -ing, with students making sentences from the typical sentence stems in a guessing game, a lying game, or a finding things they share activity.

What follows verbs writing and speaking

History trivia quiz to present or practise Past Progressive, including an optional grammar presentation contrasting Past Simple and Past Continuous, and a freer speaking stage.

Superlative adjectives practice through students guessing and finding out who is the most extreme in the class, then trying to remember the ...est and most... forms that they just used.

Words stressed on the first syllable practice through a maze puzzle, with two versions and an optional presentation stage where students try to work out patterns in which kinds of words have which kind of stress.

If + Past Simple, would + verb for discussing hypothetical questions about the past

A fun zero conditional writing and speaking guessing game, with students first using suggested zero conditional sentence stems, then making their own free choice of sentences.

Emotions vocabulary and Present Simple + Present Simple conditionals speaking practice, then testing students on their memories of the synonyms and opposites of the feelings words they were just using.