Lesson Plans: Verbs and Tenses

ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Verbs and Tenses' grammar topic.

Past Progressive Bluffing Card Game

Past Times- Things in Common

Past, Present and Future Inventions- Vocabulary and Speaking

Pick and Act- Imperatives Card Game

Please plus Verb for Offers and Commands in Emails

Postcards- Chain Writing

Practising present tenses and writing with consequences

Present and Past Ability Bluff

Present Continuous and Prepositions Drawing Dice Game

Present Continuous Mimes for Young Learners- Hobbies

Present Continuous- Actions in Different Places

Present or Future- Simplest Responses

Present Perfect Practice Game- Meetings

Present Progressive and Prepositions of Place- Mix and Match

Present Progressive and Simple- Jobs Miming

Present Progressive for the Present and Future- Simplest Responses Game

Present Progressive- Clothes Drawing Game

Present Progressive- Small Talk

Present Simple and Continuous in business communication

Present tenses in business emailing and telephoning practice

Present Simple and Continuous- Create a Town

Describing places with present tenses activities

Present Simple Sentence Completion Bluff

Present Simple- Ask and Tell Game

Present Simple- Guess Who Game

Present Tenses- Architecture

Present Simple and Present Continuous to describe being an architect, with useful architecture vocabulary

Requests and Offers in Business Meetings- Imperative Practice

Requests and offers in business presentations

When to use and not to use the imperative in typical presentations phrases

Selling ecological goods verbs of sensation practice

Sense verbs practice on the environment

Simple Past Regular Verbs- Pronunciation and Storytelling

Stronger Complaints & Regrets

Adding adverbs etc to Unreal Past

Talking about cultural differences with be and get used to

Talking about future desires with 'want to'

Technical English Mimes

Miming English for engineers sentences

The Last Time... Narrative Tense Review and Guessing Game

Time Expressions- Same or Different

Tricky Future

Unreal Past Game

Guessing the situation from wishes

Unreal Past Sentence Completion

Used To Practice- Old Expressions

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

Used to, be used to and get used to sentence completion games

Used to, be used to and get used to- discuss and agree

Used To- Discussion on Westernisation and Modernisation

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

Used To- Original Meanings of Technology Terms

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

Used To- Politically Correct Language

Talking about unpolitically correct language in the past to practise used to

Used to- Trivia Quiz

Used To- UK Habits & Customs

Used to to describe UK customs

Used to/Would Speaking Game

Verb Patterns- Sentence Completion Guessing Games

Verb Plus Verb or Preposition

What follows verbs writing and speaking

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Verbs of Sensation Mini-Presentations

Verbs of Sensation- Discuss and Agree

Verbs of Sensation- Discussion Questions