Intermediate ESL Lesson Plans (Page 4)

Useful language for answering questions brainstorming

Making and changing arrangements roleplays.

Present Continuous and other future tenses review

Different future tenses extended speaking game

Practising Present Perfect for past actions with present consequences and medical vocabulary by asking for and giving advice on medical problems that have happened.

Students choose, ask, answer, analyse and make suitable small talk questions with have something done - especially good for speaking practice of typical Cambridge First Use of English language.

Students rank, ask, answer, analyse and make everyday small talk questions, less common questions and unsuitable questions with Past Continuous.

Practising speculating with modals of deduction etc with a guessing game, including names of places vocabulary.

A lying card game and coin game to practise "have something + PP" and "do something myself", including typical actions with have something done.

Practising defining relative clauses while learning British and American vocabulary differences

Students play a warmer cooler guessing game or try to fool each other with wrong answers for different general knowledge questions about the past and present, with a Present Perfect vs Past Simple presentation stage.

Students play a pairwork warmer cooler guessing game with general knowledge questions about the past, then test each other on the irregular verbs they were just using.

Unreal Past for regrets and complaints practice game

Good and bad answers in IELTS Speaking Parts 1 and 2

Language learning problems with verb + infinitive and verb + gerund for students to discuss and then try to remember the verb patterns of, with useful language for asking for and giving advice.

Changes in the world of insurance speaking, including insurance industry vocabulary.

Key words for interrupting card games

Advice, likes and preferences speaking, with presentation of differences between useful phrases, also good for learner training.

Learner training and the language of opinions practice

A fun suggesting new food for your partner game with points and winners, for preferences and future desires/ offers with "like" practice, showing the differences between "like" and "would like"

Talking about preferences and desires with useful movie vocabulary

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Quantifiers to use with uncountable nouns review

Questions when you meet people review

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

Prepositions in typical business meeting phrases pairwork guessing game

Controlled practice of have to, don't have to, etc with students' own ideas for green policies, then adding the right modal verbs to suggested ecologically friendly ideas, with useful environmental vocabulary.

Past tenses guessing game for Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple and Continuous

will have + PP with numbers practice for classes in January

How to pronounce data in the IT field practice

How numbers are pronounced in sports review

Different meanings and pronunciations of numbers review

Numbers with the same and different pronunciations and meanings

Describing how things were invented with narrative tenses, with Technical English vocabulary

Stress in compound nouns and vocabulary for describing offices

Typical errors with opinions phrases review

Differences between opinions phrases

A fun words with opposite meanings story.