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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Like and Would Like- Make me say yes speaking game
Students try to get positive responses to preferences and desires yes/ no questions with like, including trying to work out which grammar is needed for each suggested question by meaning and guessing about your partner.
Like- Alphabet Coin Game
Two fun personalised speaking coin games to practise first letter phonics and like/ don't like, including with third person -s.
Likes and dislikes categories game
Like, love, don't like and hate statements, questions and short answers personalised speaking practice, including lots of typical topics.
Likes and Dislikes- Guessing Objects
Likes, dislikes and favourites speaking practice through guessing objects from hints and brainstorming how people and things feel about one thing, with suggested objects cards and third person -s practice.
Likes and doesn’t like Halloween guessing game
Third person S and negative forms with like and Halloween vocabulary practice with a fun guessing game, including suggested hints.
Longer Opinions Phrases- Card Game
More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games
Looking at both sides in meetings practice
Language for talking about pros and cons and concession phrases practice through roleplay business meetings.
Looking at Both Sides- Dominoes
Fun presentation or practice of phrases for looking at both pros and cons through a matching card game based on dominoes, particularly good for speaking in EAP classes and speaking exams such as IELTS Speaking Part Three.
Needs Analysis & Brainstorming Phrases
Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.
Needs Analysis- Extended Speaking and Instant Practice
Students give mini-presentations on using English, roleplay typical situations where they need to use their English skills, then discuss how to improve their knowledge and abilities outside the classroom.
Negative adjectives and offers with will
Will for spontaneous intentions and connotations of adjectives speaking practice
Negotiating- Insurance Roleplays
Great practice of negotiating and English for the insurance industry and financial English more generally, with students using and trying to remember typical insurance vocabulary used in negotiating roleplays.
Negotiations- Responding
Choosing between suitable, unsuitable and comically bad negotiating responses, trying to remember the good ones, then analysing them for the best language and tactics.
Opening and Closing Formal and Informal Emails and Letters
Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review
Opinions on consumerism
Consumerism vocabulary and opinions phrases speaking, including collocations and word formation, especially good for IELTS and social studies.
Opinions on Xmas and New Year liberal and conservative views discussion
Giving, agreeing with and disagreeing with opinions on end of year and New Year festivities speaking, including seeing if those opinions match your political outlook
Personalised Instant Roleplays
Students explain and then roleplay typical realistic situations for them to use English for business and ESP communication, including face to face, on the phone and by email - great for first classes and as a lead-in to needs analysis.
Personalised instant roleplays for logistics
English for logistics students describe typical realistic English situations for them then roleplay communicating face to face, on the phone or by email, and reflect on how the interaction went - good for first classes as a kind of needs analysis.
Phrases for explaining festivals and celebrations challenge
Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.
Positive and Negative Responses- Restaurant Language Games
Students practise restaurant vocabulary and phrases with yes/ no questions and a coin, analyse the language by who says it and the function, then practise more with a dice game and finally freer practice.
Preparing to move abroad discussion, brainstorming and roleplays
Getting ready for moving overseas by thinking and speaking about it.
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.
Quoting Practice Game
Lying game to practise phrases for quoting sources, especially useful for EAP classes
Ranking Weak and Strong Opinion Phrases
Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.
Recommendations with Movie Vocabulary
Words and phrases to describe films speaking and vocabulary brainstorming, also good for the language of recommendations practice.
Requests & Enquiries Board Game
A fun dealing with requests and questions controlled practice speaking game in which students move around the board by making phrases more and more polite/ formal.
Requests and Enquiries- Line-by-line Brainstorming
Presentation or practice of how to respond to requests and asking for information through predicting the next line of typical dialogues and then brainstorming useful phrases.
Requests and offers in restaurants activities
Functional language for making and responding to offers and requests speaking, with restaurant vocabulary and situations.
Requests in conversation practice
Casual and formal requests language in normal chat review, for realistic practice of can, could, be grateful, etc in easy conversations.
Requests- Guessing Games
Guessing things, places and people by requests associated with them, and brainstorming useful requests for each
Responding to Requests- Politeness Completion Game
Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses
Sharing Personal Experiences- Phrases Practice
Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking
Shopping Dialogue- Jigsaw Text
Mixed conversations in shops to cut up and put in order, followed by students testing each other on the shop assistant and customer phrases.
Shopping Language Mimes
TPR practice of phrases for shoppers and shop assistants, starting with a guessing game and then students testing each other on the language.
Shopping Responses
Students put cards together to match three typical shopper responses to things that shop assistants often say to them, then are tested on the language in other ways.
Social English problems and solutions
Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases
Speaker or Listener- Simplest Responses Game
Turn taking phrases and active listening phrases presentation and practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and continuing with brainstorming and classifying useful language.
Sports and exercise random pelmanism comparing practice
Fun comparing/ contrasting language and sports vocabulary matching game.
Starting and ending conversations simplest responses game
An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions
Starting and Ending Conversations- Disappearing Text Memory Game
Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.
Starting and Ending Conversations- Simplest Responses
Beginning and closing conversations phrases review starting with a fun quick reactions game, with students then trying to remember and classifying the start and end of conversations language.
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