ESL Teacher Lesson Plans & Worksheets

Select from 154 free downloadable PDF lesson plans and handouts, with answers and teachers' notes where needed, for all levels, including exam lessons for ESL/EFL teachers.

Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced | All Levels

Beginner Level

• Alphabetical Order with Answers
• Business English- Present Simple & Continuous guessing game
• Christmas- Adverbs of Frequency with Answers
• Christmas- Going to for plans and predictions with present evidence
• Christmas- Past Tense Mimes
• Christmas- Present Simple & Continuous Mimes
• Colours Word Puzzle with Answers
• Conjunctions
• Countries and Nationalities- Speaking Game
• Driving Rules (Modal Verbs) with Answers
• Easily Confused Words with Answers
• Elementary Revision Rotating Board Game
• Food Vocabulary- Brainstorming Game
• Formal Letter Writing with Answers
• In, On or At
• Irregular Adjectives Word Puzzle with Answers
• Likes & Dislikes- Snakes and Ladders Game
• New Year Resolutions- Adverbs of Frequency
• Phonetics Exercise 1 with Answers
• Phonetics Exercise 2 with Answers
• Prepositions of Location with Answers
• Prepositions of Location- Find What's Wrong
• Prepositions of Place and Location
• Prepositions of Time
• Present Simple (Adverbs of Frequency) Completion Game
• Present Simple and Progressive
• Present Simple Men and Women Guessing with Answers
• Professions Word Puzzle with Answers
• Pronunciation of Regular Past Tense Verbs with Answers
• Scrambled Sentences with Answers
• Social English - Polite Offers
• Sports and Hobbies Collocations Pellmanism Game with Teachers' Notes
• Telling the Time - Part 2
• Telling the Time - What Time Is It?
• Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Beginner) with Teachers' Notes

Intermediate Level

• Adjectives that look like Adverbs Word Puzzle with Answers
• Although & Even Though with Answers
• Business English 'Going to' Game
• Business English Advice Guessing Game
• Business English Alibi Game Worksheet with Teachers' Notes
• Business English- First Lesson Questions with Teachers' Notes
• Business English- Present Continiuous Mimes
• Business English- Silent letters and syllables with Answers
• Business English- tense review with Answers
• Business English- Words that can and cannot be shortened
• Business Writing Comparatives Game
• Cambridge PET Sentence Completion Part 1 with Answers
• Cambridge PET Sentence Completion Part 2 with Answers
• Christmas and New Year Tense Review- Mimes
• Christmas Superstitions- 1st Conditional
• Christmas Trivia- Numbers Pairwork
• Christmas Trivia- Numbers Pairwork 2
• Christmas- Describing Foods Bluff Game
• Christmas- Modals of deduction with Teachers' Notes
• Christmas- Predictions with 'will'
• Conversation - Smiling on the outside
• Gerunds and Present & Past Participles with Answers
• History vocabulary for ESL students- The Middle Ages
• Holidays
• How British is your English? Questionnaire and Speaking
• How do you say it? with Teachers' Notes
• Jobs- Compound Nouns Matching Pairwork with Answers
• Language Learning- Opinions
• Modal Auxiliaries - Winter Conditions
• Modal Auxiliaries: Possibility and Prediction
• Modals and Conditional Sentences with Teachers' Notes
• Movie Genres with Answers
• Narrative Tenses- Guess the Year Game
• New Year- Continuous State Verbs
• New Year- Future Perfect
• Number Practice- Idioms & Proverbs
• Office Equipment Inventions- Past Tense review
• Office Vocabulary - Compound Noun Stress with Teachers' Notes
• Personality & Gender- Guessing Game
• Phrasal verbs- Reversi Game with Teachers' Notes
• Postcards- Chain Writing
• Prepositions - Hallway with Answers
• Present Perfect Games & Activities
• Present Simple and Continuous- Create a Town
• Presentations - Advice on Cultural Differences with Answers
• Pronunciation of 'ough' with Answers
• Punctuation with Answers
• Second Conditional- Elections
• Short Answers with Answers
• Spelling with Answers
• Taboo Topics- Present Simple & Continuous Game
• Technical English Mimes
• Technical English Words and Expressions that can and cannot be shortened in English
• Telephone Problems- Board Game
• Telephoning- Communication Breakdown Roleplay
• The Language of Interrupting with Teachers' Notes
• The language of trends- Spot the difference
• The Passive Voice
• Timetable Battleships
• Travel English Pairwork- Pronunciation of B & V
• Until
• Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Intermediate) with Teachers' Notes
• Zero Conditional Completion Game

Advanced Level

• 101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about people, places, actions, things and times
• 101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about sports and hobbies
• 101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about the Past, Present and Future
• 101 IELTS Speaking Part Two topic cards that tie in with IELTS Speaking Part One
• A Minister Resigns with Answers
• Adverbs of Frequency - Gender Policy
• Bird Flu with Answers
• Business & Technical English- Easily Confused Words
• Business English- Christmas Cards Do's & Don't's with Answers
• CAE Reading Paper Part 2 Practice- Match the Famous Quotes
• Christmas Party- Negotiations
• Christmas Traditions- Passives Bluff Game with Teachers' Notes
• Earthquake in Iran with Answers
• Editing Skills - Punctuation with Answers
• Editing Skills - Spelling with Answers
• Editing Skills - Spelling (2) with Answers
• Editing Skills - Unnecessary Words with Answers
• Editing Skills - Word Choice with Answers
• Electoral Reform with Answers
• Fresher Week- Academic Vocabulary Game with Teachers' Notes
• Gap Fill with Answers
• Gender Roles Case Studies with Answers
• General Election called in the UK with Answers
• How British is your Financial English? with Answers
• IELTS Speaking Part 1- Tense Review
• IELTS Speaking Part 2- Unusual or difficult topics
• IELTS Speaking Part 2- Transport & Travel
• IELTS Speaking Parts 1 & 2- Past and Future Questions
• IELTS Speaking Parts 1 & 2- Work Prepositions
• IELTS Speaking- Candidate & Examiner Game with Teachers' Notes
• IELTS Speaking- Spot the Mistakes
• IELTS- Work & Study Vocabulary Game
• Language Learning Course Case Study with Teachers' Notes
• Lebanese Politician Assassinated with Answers
• Multiple Literacies with Answers
• North Korea's War on Long Hair with Answers
• Personality Traits with Teachers' Notes
• State of Emergency in Nepal with Answers
• Student Loans with Answers
• Teaching Science with Answers
• The English Language with Answers
• The Fox and the Crow with Answers
• The Fox and the Grapes with Answers
• Tokyo Share Crisis with Answers
• Topic Sentences with Answers
• Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Advanced) with Teachers' Notes
• World History Past modals of possibility and probability discussion questions
• World History Second Conditional Discussion Questions
• World History Third Conditional Discussion Questions

All Levels

• Common IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Symbols
• Fun for all the Family 1- 22 Games to Practise Numbers
• Fun for all the Family 2- 26 Alphabet & Spelling Games
• Fun for all the Family 3- Games to Practise Articles and Determiners
• Irregular Verb List
• Needs Analysis- Level Check First Lesson
• Needs Analysis- Level Check Interview Form with Teachers' Notes