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.

First Contact- Brainstorming and Jigsaw

First Contact- Functions Card Game

Formal and Informal Business Communications Activities

Formal and Informal Functional Language Dominoes

Functional Language Dice Game

Functional Language for Dealing with Enquiries

Useful language for answering questions brainstorming

Gestures- Social Language

How to use body language to communicate, and how to continue those conversations

Give advice on the problems with reports

The language of advice and reports practice

Giving Directions- Make it clearer

IELTS- Comparing and Contrasting Practice

IELTS questions for practising the language of similarities and differences

Improving the Olympics

How to make the Olympic Games better discussion.

Interrupting Phrases

Key words for interrupting card games

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Inversion Presentation and Practice

Invitations- Coin Games

Job Applications- Line by Line Brainstorming

Language Learning- Opinions

Learner training and the language of opinions practice

Legal English- Supporting your Arguments

Life events guessing and bluffing

Like and would like movies speaking

Talking about preferences and desires with useful movie vocabulary

Likes & Dislikes- Snakes and Ladders Game

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Looking at Both Sides- Dominoes

Making Opinions Stronger & Weaker

Changing medium-strength opinions phrases into ones with more specific meanings

Meeting People- Phrases

Meeting People- Response Matching

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

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Need Analysis- Discussion Questions

Opinions language review for first classes

Negotiating- Insurance Roleplays

Negotiations- Responding

News and Media Opinions

Numbers- Clarification

Checking/ clarifying phrases and pronouncing numbers review

Office Inventions 2

Online meetings discussion and brainstorming

Opinions- Mistakes

Typical errors with opinions phrases review

Opinions- Strong or Weak

Strong and weak giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases

Opinions- The Same or Different?

Differences between opinions phrases

Opposites Roleplays

Personalised instant roleplays for logistics

Positive and Negative Responses- Restaurant Language Games

Presentations - Advice on Cultural Differences

Analysing and using the language of advice to give recommendations on how to solve environmental problems

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Presentations- Aims

Presentations- Connecting with the Audience

Presentations- Formal & Informal Language

Formal and informal phrases for starting and ending business and academic presentations

Presentations- Formality

Presentations- Formality Brainstorming and Correction

Presentations- Formality in Ending

Presentations- Introducing Yourself

Presentations- Offers and Commands

Presentations- Preparation Tips

Public Spaces Brainstorming and Speaking

Ranking Weak and Strong Opinion Phrases

Recommendations and Invitations for Visitors