ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 14)

Conversation questions for free speaking practice of indirect speech, including both personal questions and opinion questions.

Students try to remember and report back a conversation that their partner really had - good for controlled communicative practice, personalisation, and students getting to know each other.

Mini-presentations for indirect speech free speaking practice, with suggested presentation topics and suggested follow-up questions for the people listening.

Verbs for reporting speech with the same and different meaning, including common mistakes with reporting verbs.

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.

When to use and not to use the imperative in typical presentations phrases

Guessing things, places and people by requests associated with them, and brainstorming useful requests for each

Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses

Adjectives and topics in restaurant reviews

Useful vocabulary for writing reviews game, with extreme adjectives, synonyms and antonyms

Unstressed vowel sound problems in IELTS Listening

Fun language of trends practice for the festive season, with trends to explain and discuss, and an optional extension into talking about other festivals and celebrations - good for Business and IELTS classes.

Vocabulary related to spring, summer, autumn and winter review, including a fast reactions game, vocabulary such as weather words and months of the year.

Talking about precautions with "in case" speaking practice, including suggested topics and sentence stems.

Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking

Quick reactions game for short answers like "Yes, I can" and "No, there aren't" with students quickly folding and showing the right answers.

A card game based on Othello to practise words with silent letters and words that are pronounced the same, with cards for five different levels of classes.

A poem to help learn the pronunciation of words with silent letters through which words they rhyme with, followed by other practice of silent letters and rhyming.

Telling stories with words with silent letters.

Words with silent letters things in common and differences activity, including similar silent and pronounced letters.

Card games to practise words with silent letters, including pairs/ pelmanism/ the memory game, and the faster, more exciting game of Snap, with cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 levels.

A fun silent letters puzzle in which students identify which letters are not pronounced and put those letters together to reveal hidden messages, with versions at five different levels.

Grouping and comparing linking expressions cards.

Easy presentation task for irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns.

Singular, regular plural and irregular plural practice through a personal questions game, with points for the right answer, including easier and more challenging versions, a grammar presentation, and one more optional game.

Typical phrases for chatting after weeks or months without seeing someone, and phrases and key words for getting down to business at the end of the small talk.

Suggested questions and topics to chat about the news, good for Social English and current affairs lessons.

Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases

How to respond in social situations phrases review, starting with matching three typical answers to common social phrases and continuing with brainstorming and other activities.

Fun review of all necessary language for English for social purposes, with students progressing around a board by how well they interact.

Vocabulary related to social issues brainstorming and oral practice

Definite, indefinite and zero articles practice through giving opinions on society discussion.

Grammar words in typical phrases for social situations like restaurants and pubs guessing game then brainstorming useful phrases.

Problems with countable nouns and problems with uncountable nouns to discuss.

Personalised oral practice of some and any by students trying to make sentences that are true for both/ all of them from typical sentence stems, with easy and more tricky uses of some and any.

How the word sorry is used and other ways of apologising

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.

-ing form and names of festivals and celebrations oral practice with sentence stems for students to share opinions and experiences with together.

Sports with go, go to, play and do collocations memory game

Typical sports vocabulary errors for Japanese-speaking learners of English

Vocabulary related to sports and exercise listening and speaking, with bluffing game

Giving opinions on sports through debates

Articles in academic writing review, starting with a determiners pairwork guessing game and continuing with brainstorming and classifying typical phrases for academic essays and published papers.

Easy review of opening and closing emails, phone calls and face to face meetings

Brainstorming and checking what each line of typical phone calls could be

An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions

Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.

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.

Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.

Strong recommendations and weak recommendations with medical vocabulary speaking, with suggested medical problems to discuss and a functional language presentation.