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Dive into the vast collection at UsingEnglish.com, where over 1,433 meticulously crafted PDF lesson plans await you. Where necessary, these plans come with answers and teachers' notes, ensuring that you're well-equipped for all levels, including exam lessons. Whether you're teaching beginners or advanced students, this resource promises high-quality content that can make your lesson planning seamless and effective. We provide you with rich and diverse topics, all tailored for the ESL/EFL teaching community.

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Direct, Indirect and Taboo Small Talk Questions

Updated: 21st Sep. 2023 | Common small talk questions, taboo small talk questions, and ones in between that need to be made indirect, with embedded questions presentation and practice.

Formal and Informal Business Communications Activities

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Formal business communications and casual business communications review.

First Contact- Functions Card Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Different things you do when you make first contact card game.

Feelings- Drawing Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Making pictures to representing emotions, with food and drink, animals, classroom vocabulary, clothes, household vocabulary, toys,

Feelings and Nouns- Pick and Draw Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Putting nouns and feelings together to make funny pictures.

Feelings Adjectives Sounds Game with Gradable and Extreme Adjectives

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Making sounds to represent extreme and gradable feelings adjectives game.

Fairy Tales- Mix and Match Colour Words Practice

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Practising colour words through sensible or silly fairytales.

Expanding Aptis Speaking Part One- Answers Activities

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Longer and better answers in APTIS Speaking Part One activities.

Do you want black teeth? Questions about Colours- Mix and Match

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Funny and sensible colours of objects sentences card games and storybook.

Different Ways of Learning English- Relative Clause Practice

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Discussing the best way to learn English to practise relative clauses.

Describing Social Issues with the Passive Voice

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Talking about society with different passive tenses, including a guessing game.

Describing Music- Things in Common Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Practising music vocabulary with personalised speaking practice.

Days of the Week Flashcards

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Memory game to memorise days of the week along with other useful vocabulary.

Country and Nationality Statements- Bluffing Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | True and false statements with country and nationality words speaking.

Conceding and Counter-Arguing Card Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Phrases to politely disagree with "but" review.

Comparing Places- Comparatives Random Pelmanism Card Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | A fun card game to practise describing places and comparative adjectives, with many adjectives of place names.

Comparing Places- Comparative Adjectives Practice

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Practising comparative by talking about similarities and differences between places.

Comparing Places- Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Count and non-count nouns practice by comparing places.

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Stories

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives storytelling speaking.

Comparative Adjectives Drawing Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Drawing to practise comparatives.

Colour Word Search Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Colour word recognition word search activities.

Colour Word Jigsaws

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Learning how to read and write colour words jigsaw activities, including easier and more difficult versions.

Colours- Guessing Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Guess the colour games.

Colours and Objects- Dice Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | True and false statements about colours of objects dice games, including classroom vocab, names of clothes, names of animals,

Colours and Numbers- Word Searching Game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Colour and number word recognition practice through word searches.

Colours and Numbers Flashcard Games

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Colour and number word practice through flashcard games.

Classroom Instructions- Imperative Mix and Match

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

Christmas Food- Restaurant Roleplays

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Christmas vocabulary practice through restaurant roleplays.

Can, can’t and prepositions dice game

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Prepositions of position and abilities dice game.

Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English Part 4 Sentence Transformations on Verb Patterns

Updated: 20th Sep. 2023 | Verb plus verb practice with Cambridge C2 Use of English Part 4.

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