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- 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
Academic Writing Tips with Useful Phrases
Good academic writing and the language to do it classroom activities.
Academic Writing- Error Correction Pairwork
Typical mistakes in academic emails, essays, dissertations and papers speaking task.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Future Technologies
Pros and cons of technology that might happen in the future discussion
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.
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 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- Formality & Politeness in Requests
How to make requests more polite/ formal practice
Business English- Moving on & Changing Topic in Meetings Jigsaw
Smoothly moving from topic to topic in meetings review, including speaking games.
Business English- Phone Conversation Completion
Using the most common telephoning phrases in roleplay phone calls.
Business English- Starting and Ending Presentations Phrases
Beginning and finishing business and academic presentations phrases review
Describing presentation visuals challenge
Describing presentation slides phrases presentation and practice
Differences between conversational reactions
Similar but not identical conversational reaction phrases
Email functions- Correcting & Brainstorming
Typical mistakes with different kinds of emailing phrases plus extra ideas.
English for Special Purposes- Engineering Dimensions & Comparing Games
Describing and comparing technologies games
First Contact- Brainstorming and Jigsaw
First contact by email, telephone and face to face review, starting with line by line brainstorming.
Formal and Informal Business Communications Activities
Formal business communications and casual business communications review.
Free Time Sentence Completion- Personalised Guessing Game
Guessing people's statements about their leisure game, with common phrases for talking about free time
Functional language for guests and hosts in restaurants
Useful socialising in restaurants phrases simplest responses game.
Giving Directions- Free and Controlled Speaking
Fun creating a town, office, etc through giving directions game, with useful vocabulary for describing places.
HR solutions strong and weak recommendations practice
Human resources vocabulary and language of advice practice
Inviting and Dealing with Invitations- Phrases and Speaking Practice Game
Invitations and responding to invitations phrases oral practice
Longer Opinions Phrases- Card Game
More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games
Needs Analysis & Brainstorming Phrases
Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.
Opening and Closing Formal and Informal Emails and Letters
Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review
Presentations- Aims
Deciding and stating the purpose of your presentation review, including bad examples to improve
Presentations- Formality
How to start formal and informal presentations review, including a jigsaw task.
Presentations- Introducing Yourself
Good and bad ways to do personal introductions in presentations.
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