Lesson Plans: Functions & Text

ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Functions & Text' grammar topic.

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Academic English- Clarification

Useful clarifying phrases for academic speaking and writing, with academic vocabulary
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Academic English- Classifying Functions

Classifying and ranking strong and weak academic language
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Academic English- Correcting Emails

Fixing common mistakes with emails to professors, etc, including language, politeness and formatting.
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Academic English- Emails to Academic Staff

Guide to writing to professors etc
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Academic English- Hedging & Quoting Sources

Softer making quotations phrases practice, including hedging language review.
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Academic English- Persuasive Applications

Attractive personal statements and other academic applications review.
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Academic Writing Stages

The different stages of planning, writing and editing academic writing like dissertations.
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Academic Writing- Brainstorming and Tips

ESL lesson plan on good academic writing, including brainstorming, vocabulary, and tips, starting with a mind map and ending with a related essay.
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Academic Writing- Giving Feedback

Guided giving each other feedback on their academic writing practice.
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Achievements conversational reactions practice

Practising reacting to what people say by communicating about what you have achieved
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Agreeing and Disagreeing Game

Card games to practise difficult agreeing and disagreeing phrases
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Agreeing and Disagreeing- Language Review

Strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing listening and speaking
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Apologising- Matching Apologies to Situations

Finding suitable apologies for different situations
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Asking for Opinions- Key Words and Phrases Brainstorming

Asking people to give their opinion phrases review
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Brainstorming Phrases Practice – Improving Education

Group brainstorming practice on the topic of education
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BULATS-Writing about Recruitment

BULATS Writing exam practice on recruitment
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Business communications brainstorming and errors

Typical phrases for electronic and face-to-face communication, with typical mistakes
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Business English Advice Guessing Game

Guessing the business problem from the advice on it, with collocations with do and make
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Business English Emails- Too formal

Suitable formality in emails practice
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Business English Emails- Too Informal

Correcting formality mistakes in emails
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Business English Job Interviews- Different Questions and Responses

Different ways of asking and answering job interview questions
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Business English Meetings- Cultural Differences

Meetings in different countries and useful phrases
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Business English Meetings- Too Formal

Overly polite phrases for normal business meetings
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Business English Meetings- Too Informal

Making overly casual meetings phrases more suitable for business
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Business English Presentations- Formal & Informal

Formal and casual ways to start and end presentations
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Business English Presentations- Gestures

Thinking of suitable ways to use your body to present
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Business English Presentations- Roleplays & Phrases

Doing presentations in different ways and with different phrases
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Business English Reports- Phrases

Typical typical for writing reports brainstorming and suggested phrases
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Business English- Telephone Interviews Tips and Language

How to interview on the telephone for a job, with useful phrases
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Business English- Arranging Telephone Interviews

How to fix an appointment to have a job interview on the phone, with useful language
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Business English- Brainstorming for Job Applications

Brainstorming useful tactics and phrases for English job interviews, including body language, starting the interview, answering questions, and asking questions at the end.
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Business English- Chairing Meetings Functions

Useful phrases for facilitating meetings
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Business English- Chairing Meetings Roleplay

Dealing with difficult situations in meeting roleplays
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Business English- Cultural Differences

Ways of doing business in different countries review, with useful phrases
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Business English- Dealing with Complaints Step by Step Roleplay Practice

Easy and more challenging responding to complaints roleplays, including dealing with complaints by email and on the phone
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Business English- Dealing with Enquiries

Step by step making and dealing with enquiries roleplays
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Business English- Email Functions Review

Language and paragraphing for emailing
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Business English- Functions Review

Responding to typical functional language jigsaw and speaking
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Business English- Hospitality & Politeness

Being polite with business guests practice
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Business English- Meeting People & Cultural Differences

Starting conversations in different situations cultural training and useful phrases
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Business English- Phone Interview Preparation

How to get ready for a job interview on the phone
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Business English- Presentation Roleplays

Good and bad presenting roleplays and useful phrases
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Business English- Rare Email Expressions

Using more common emailing phrases practice
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Business English- Saying No to Enquiries

Polite negative responses to inquiries
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Business English- Starting Conversations

Beginning to speak to people in business situations practice and useful phrases
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Business English- Step by Step Telephoning

Easy and then more and more challenging telephoning roleplays
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Business English- Taking Minutes

Writing up notes from meetings review
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Business English- Teleconference Functions

Functional language for teleconferences review
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Business English- Teleconference or Face to Face Game

Different phrases for distance and face to face meetings review
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Business English- Teleconference Politeness Game

Improving rude teleconferencing and video conferencing phrases
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