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Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans, Page: 3
Browse our collection of 260 Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans using the links below.
He has/She has- Present Simple Games
Eight fun third person singular of have card games, useful for talking about possessions and third person -s, including questions and short answers.
He Likes & She Likes Games
Six fun card games for practising likes, also useful for third person S practice, including third person yes/ no questions and short answers,
He She It is They are drawing challenge
Present Simple of be with third person singular and plural drawing game, with students setting challenges for each other.
How Many Are There- Trivia Quiz
Easy general knowledge questions with fun ways of reacting quickly like slapping number cards, also good practice of quickly reading number words.
How Many Are There? Speaking Games
Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.
How Many Board Game
Fun competitive personalised speaking board game, moving around by getting high numbers in replies from your partners.
How many… have? Simple Numbers Quiz
Very simple general knowledge questions with have that students react quickly to in fun ways like slapping cards, also good for developing number word recognition.
How Often- Trivia Quiz
Student A and Student B worksheets with different how often questions for pairwork guessing games, for practice and presentation of both simple and more complex frequency expressions.
I don't get bored: -ing and -ed adjectives story
Adjectives ending in ed and ing practice through a fun story.
Imperative Practice- Ball Games
Four fun games to practise verb and don't plus verb for orders/ commands/ instructions on the topic of ball games, including competing to come up with ideas and guessing games.
Indefinite Articles- A & An for Describing Companies and Jobs
a vs an before names of jobs, kinds of companies and nationality adjectives, with two fun speaking activities, and country and nationality words presentation and practice
Invitations- Coin Games
Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.
Is & Are Drawing Game
Simple and fun practice of Present Simple of be with jobs, family vocabulary, nationality adjectives, etc, starting with guessing the drawings and then presenting the grammar through error correction of the sentences that they just drew and guessed.
Is a rainbow brown? – Colours Mix and Match
Funny and sensible colours and nouns combinations activity.
Is and are with prepositions Xmas drawing game
Prepositions of location and Present Simple of be practice through a fun drawing game, including lots of useful Xmas vocabulary.
Is are was were describing countries game
Fun present and past of be and names of countries practice for A1 and A2 learners
Is there & Are there plus prepositions mix and match
Students take turns asking funny questions like "Are there 100 bicycles under your desk?" and trying to change them to more sensible ones, for "Is there/ Are there...?" and prepositions of location practice.
Is there & Are there- Spelling Games
Students practise spelling and there is/ there are yes/ no questions at the same time, first as a pairwork spelling test and then as a guessing game like hangman, including there is/ are questions and answers grammar presentation.
Is there/Are there Trivia Quiz
A fun game for there is/ are practice in which students test the general knowledge of their classmates, starting with a quick reactions folding paper game
It is/ They are & my/ your/ his/ her Drawing Game
A fun Present Simple of be and possessive adjectives pick and draw game, with vocabulary of clothes, body parts, toys and transport, and optional colours and other adjectives cards.
Jobs Vocabulary
A fun comparing jobs card game, based on the memory game/ pelmanism/ pairs, but with any possible match allowed, including suffixes in jobs words presentation.
Jobs- Drawing Game
Is and are and names of jobs practice through a drawing game, including a similar and different jobs presentation.
Jobs- Mix and Match
What people do in different jobs silly and sensible matches activities with Present Continuous practice.
Like & Don’t like TPR coin game
Like and don't like + nouns and gerunds practice with a fun miming game, starting with suggested things to act out their positive and negative feelings about.
Like & don’t like- coin games
Ten fun flipping a coin games to practise like and don't like, including trying to get particular answers, finding preferences that people share, lying games, and guessing games.
Like & Don’t Like- Common Games
Students find tastes that they share with their partners in order to practise the language of preferences, using the suggested topics and phrases if they like, then find differences in likes and dislikes and/ or play coin games.
Like & Don’t Like- Things In Common Sentence Completion
Students share their preferences to complete sentences covering both of them like "We both adore....", then try to recall and analyse the strong and weak likes and dislikes language that they just used,
Like + Gerund Dice Game
Like + verb personalised speaking practice with a fun dice game in which students try to make true statements about their partner(s) and people they know.
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- 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.
Months and Colours- Mix and Match
Months of the year and colour vocabulary silly and sensible combinations activities.
Months and Dates Vocabulary
Practising vocabulary with a months memory game, including actions vocabulary and ordinal numbers.
Months of the year dice games
January to December personalised speaking through two dice games, including finding things in common and fun lying game.
Months- Hangman
Students give hints about what month they are thinking of until their partner can spell that month letter by letter in a hangman spelling game, including personalised speaking and suggested descriptions of what happens in particular months.
Names of Months Dominoes
Learning how to read, write and spell the names of months with dominoes games .
Names of Months Flashcard Memory Games
Drilling the names of months with a vocabulary flashcard memory game, including places, sports, weather, food,
Nationality Word Endings
Students practise adding suffixes to country words to make nationality adjectives with two fun matching words with the same endings card games, a slow one based on pelmanism/ the memory game/ pairs, and/ or a fast reactions one based on Snap.
Nationality Words- Stress Maze Games
Nationality adjectives stressed on the first syllable and on the second syllable games.
Numbers and Spelling Games
Two fun games combining practice of how to pronounce numbers and letters of the alphabet, including a simplified hangman game and a numbers and letters code.
Opposites Hangman- Spelling and Guessing Game
Students guess pairs of opposites letter by letter like a kind of double hangman, starting with very easy opposites like yes - no and hot - cold, also useful practice for spelling and pronouncing letters of the alphabet.
Opposites Miming Games
TPR practice of simple opposites, including very basic ones like yes and no and elementary adjective antonyms.
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