ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 15)

Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.

Current affairs vocabulary and strong opinion and weak opinion phrases presentation and speaking practice, with model opinions to discuss then freer speaking.

Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.

Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Trivia quiz to practise subject questions

Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

People's roles nouns endings and subject questions practice.

Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

Superlative adjectives and numbers to describe extreme animals

Adjective plus +est and most drawing game

Good and bad present tense questions to use and avoid

Getting accustomed to cultural differences be used to and get used to discussion.

Present Perfect and Past Simple oral practice on the topic of what people do during festivals and celebrations like eating special food and staying up all night.

Students practice a wide range of different quantifiers by making up problems and suggesting solutions, with suggested topics and grammar presentation stage.

Future times and verb forms confusions and synonyms review, starting with a fun quick reactions game and with an optional prepositions in future time expressions presentation.

Advice and language for teleconferences

Answering questions on the phone review

Reviewing business communications through common mistakes

Beginning and ending telephone calls phrases presentation and practice

Students discuss, try to remember, work out the rules of and produce different kinds of adjectives before nouns, on the topic of Valentine's Day and relationships.

Choosing and arranging the best adjectives with typical Xmas vocabulary, including working out adjective word order rules/ patterns.

Future forms in IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three questions and answers review.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking on strong preferences

Advice on IELTS Reading with useful language for supporting your arguments in IELTS Speaking Part Three and IELTS Writing Task 2, including lots of different reasons/ cause/ effects phrases.

Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.

Similar and different prepositions of time and other past, present and future time expressions.

Learning adjectives with too and enough with a version of Othello

Minimal pairs practice for travel vocabulary

Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.

Tricky future forms review lesson plan with time clauses, verbs, and phrases. Students practice identifying meanings and expressing them in different ways. Homework includes writing about possible future scenarios.

Talking about unpolitically correct language in the past to practise used to

Vital verbs and phrases for writing reports through a speaking game

Completing typical writing reviews phrases games

Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.

How to say numbers and use active and passive voice speaking through a warmer cooler numbers guessing game, including different pronunciations of numbers and love and relationships vocabulary.

Discussing if one or more is better for Valentine's Day, trying to remember the plural forms, then generalising about how to make regular and irregular plurals from singular nouns

Fun practice of forming and using superlative adjectives through competing to draw the most extreme Valentine's Day goods and experiences, including a grammar presentation of the five different kinds of superlative.

Using defining relative clauses to explain Valentine's Day gifts, places, and other love and relationships vocabulary, including a relative pronouns grammar presentation, and moving onto other festivals and celebrations.

Verbs of sensation personalised writing and speaking games, including bluffing, guessing games and things in common

Fun step by step practice of teleconferences and video conferences

Using as many useful words and expressions for talking about special events as you can activities, with different forms of words to talk about festivals and celebrations made with different prefixes and suffixes.

Finding things in common with verbs of senses, including like as a preposition questions

Words which take the same affixes listening game.

How to pronounce and spelling words with schwa sounds

Silent letters speaking tasks.