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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Statements about language learning generalising practice
Making statements suitably strong or weak, including lots of useful generalising language and discussion of good and bad language learning.
Strong & Weak Opinions
Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.
Strong and Weak Medical Advice
Strong recommendations and weak recommendations with medical vocabulary speaking, with suggested medical problems to discuss and a functional language presentation.
Strong and Weak Opinions
Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.
Strong and weak opinions on crime and punishment
Crime vocabulary and functional language for giving opinions practice with stimulating topics.
Strong and weak opinions on the news and media
Current affairs vocabulary and strong opinion and weak opinion phrases presentation and speaking practice, with model opinions to discuss then freer speaking.
Stronger and Weaker Hedging Language
Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.
Talking about meetings interrupting practice
Turn taking phrases and meetings vocabulary speaking practice.
Teamwork strong and weak recommendations
Strong recommendations phrases, weak recommendations phrases and negative recommendations phrases practice through the topic of teamwork.
Telecommuting Policies- Roleplay Meeting
Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.
Telephone Phrases- Brainstorming and Roleplays
Completing telephoning phrases through brainstorming and roleplays. Students practice different phrases for telephoning situations. They test each other in pairs and roleplay conversations.
Test each other on insurance vocabulary checking/ clarifying practice
Useful checking/ clarifying questions on financial and business vocabulary, particularly for the insurance industry
Thanking cultural differences and useful phrases
Tactics and language for thanking and responding to thanks review.
Thanking in English
How to thank and respond to thanks review, starting with matching situations and thanking phrases
Thanking People- Game
Thanking and vocabulary for describing people practice through a fun guessing game, with names of people's roles which tend to get confused presentation.
The Language of Interrupting
Turn taking language games practicing the language of interrupting presentation and practice
Things to do when you interrupt
Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.
Travel and Tourism Recommendations- Numbers Practice
Pronouncing numbers, giving advice and travel and tourism vocabulary speaking practice, including students discussing their own real travel suggestions based on typical situations for using numbers.
Travel English- Imperatives and Requests Practice
Contrasting commands and offers from travel staff with please + verb with requests from travellers with can/ could, including the most common phrases to say and hear while travelling.
Travel English- Simplest Responses and Key Words Games
Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.
Turn taking and active listening longer phrases card games
Basic and more complex phrases for interrupting and not interrupting card games and brainstorming
Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion
Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.
Valentine’s Day in different places comparing practice
Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.
Weather and Advice Practice
Suggestions phrases and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested questions and weather words to ask for advice with.
What people say when you move abroad
A big review of what people might say to you when you arrive abroad, and practice of responding and whole conversations with those people.
What’s your favourite: Xmas games
Favourites question formation games, including guessing questions and guessing answers, with useful Xmas vocabulary.
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