Lesson Plans: Functional Language
ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Functional Language' grammar topic.
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Academic Discussions- Giving Positive and Negative Feedback
Positive feedback and negative feedback listening and speaking activities.
Academic English Discussions- Cultural Differences and Useful Phrases
How academic discussions change from culture to culture, including useful language for doing so.
Academic English- Clarification
Useful clarifying phrases for academic speaking and writing, with academic vocabulary
Academic English- Leading seminars & discussions longer phrases game
More complicated phrases for leading academic discussions card games.
Academic English- Leading seminars & discussions review
Helping seminar participants participate fully phrases review.
Academic Word List- Giving Examples Guessing Game
Giving examples phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes
Advantages and Disadvantages of Future Technologies
Pros and cons of technology that might happen in the future discussion
Ageing population quotes communicative activities
Quoting and commenting on quotes practice on the topic of ageing populations, especially use for social studies and/ or EAP classes.
Alphabet Dice Game- Favourites
Making personal sentences about favourites with different letters of the alphabet dice game.
Being Sympathetic and Unsympathetic
Being sympathetic and not in conversational reactions listening and speaking, with useful phrases.
Brainstorming in meetings practice
Brainstorming in roleplay meetings, brainstorming suitable phrases for doing that, then doing it again with more realistic topics for each student.
Business communication needs analysis and instant personalised practice
Students ask each other about how and why they need English, do pairwork practice of those kinds of realistic communciations, then brainstorm useful language for typical emails, phone calls and face to face communication.
Business Communication- Pairwork Correction Game
Common mistakes in emailing, telephoning, meetings, etc pairwork speaking.
Business English Presentations- Body Language & Gestures
Using your body to reinforce typical presentations phrases review
Business English Presentations- Correct the Errors 2
Typical mistakes with common presentations phrases
Business English Presentations- Negotiation Game
A fun game with points for negotiating well, linking to how to prepare a presentation
Business English Telephone Language- The Same or Different?
Listening to and classifying typical telephoning phrases game, including typical telephoning confusions.
Business English- Discussing Priorites
Pairwork needs analysis, and discussing and practising top priorities.
Business English- Ending presentations politeness competition game
Making rude ending presentations phrases more and more formal speaking game, including ranking phrases and generalising about formality.
Business English- Formality & Politeness in Requests
How to make requests more polite/ formal practice
Business English- Longer negotiating phrases activities
More complex and effective negotiating phrases practice through a jigsaw activity and other card games, including two brainstorming stages.
Business English- Making Proposals & Suggestions in Negotiations Game
Using and remembering making proposals phrases for negotiating practice, including a fun responses card game.
Business English- Meeting People Bluffing Game
Describing companies when you meet someone lying game, with useful phrases, key words and names of famous companies to talk about.
Business English- Moving on & Changing Topic in Meetings Jigsaw
Smoothly moving from topic to topic in meetings review, including speaking games.
Business English- Negotiating for points game
A fun negotiating pairwork speaking game with a winner, including useful discussion of how to prepare for external negotiations, and an optional extension into talking about how to prepare for other things.
Business English- Negotiating Language Board Game
Students work their way around a fun board game by using useful functional language for internal and external negotiations, then brainstorm what typical phrases they could have used.
Business English- Negotiating phrases error correction pairwork
Small groups of students work together to find typical errors in the most useful negotiating phrases, then try to remember functional language.
Business English- Negotiating Phrases Mimes
Fun TPR practice of typical functional language for negotiations, including actions to accompany phrases for starting negotiations, responding in negotiations, and ending negotiations.
Business English- Negotiating- Saying Yes, No & Maybe
Positive, negative and ambiguous responses in negotiations review, with a simplest responses games, brainstorming with key words, and using key words in negotiating roleplays.
Business English- Negotiations Jigsaw Dialogues and Useful Phrases
Students split and sort out cut up and mixed up formal and casual negotiations, analyse the language in them, test each other on the phrases, then roleplay internal and external negotiations with people they know and don't know.
Business English- Phone Conversation Completion
Using the most common telephoning phrases in roleplay phone calls.
Business English- Starting and Ending Negotiations
Students memorise and practise the most useful phrases for beginning and ending negotiations, starting with a fun quick responses listening game, then using key words to remember each phrase.
Business English- Starting and Ending Presentations Phrases
Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review
Business Negotiation Roleplays
Negotiating with people inside your company and outside your company free speaking, including suggested topics and people to negotiate with (suppliers, your boss, etc).
Chairing a meeting functions and reporting verbs for minutes review
What a chair should do, what they can say to do so, and how it can be described in the minutes of the meeting review
Christmas Shopping Roleplays
Christmas vocabulary and shopping phrases practice, good for travel English in end of year lessons, with useful food and drink vocabulary.
Clothes and Appearance Recommendations
Practising strong and weak recommendations language, appearance collocations and typical confusions between clothese and appearance words with a fun speaking task.
Conversations when moving abroad preparation and practice
Thinking carefully about what you might need to say and write when you move abroad, then roleplaying the most typical conversations.
Conversations when you move abroad step by step roleplays game
Roleplaying each step of moving overseas with a game with points you can use.
Dealing with Enquiries- Jigsaw Dialogues
Students put a making and responding to questions conversation in order, memorise it, analyse the language, then take part in similar exchanges.
Dealing with Problems and Complaints- Card Games
Students match typical replies to unhappy customers, then try to remember useful phrases for apologising, promising future action, etc.
Dealing with Requests and Enquiries Responses- Card Games
Students match typical replies to people asking for favours and information, then test each other on useful phrases for polite requests, polite negative responses, etc.
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