Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 5)
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Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans, Page: 5
Browse our collection of 260 Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans using the links below.
Present Simple- Personalised Board Game
Speaking game in which students move around a board without a dice by making as many true Present Simple statements about their partner as they can about the word/ topic of the square they are on.
Present Simple- Third Person Guessing Game
Present Simple with final -s speaking games, first guessing the person and then brainstorming descriptions, with useful vocabulary for describing people with Present Simple.
Present Simple- Time Expressions
Present time expressions questions, things in common and opinions speaking card games, with a prepositions of time grammar presentation.
Present Simple: Dice questions challenge
Typical Present Simple verbs, personal questions and collocations practice made fun with use of a dice.
Pronouncing the alphabet questions dice game
Personalised speaking, question formation, first letter phonics and pronouncing the alphabet dice games.
Put the Dates in Order- Games
Arranging months and dates card games, with optional more challenging and fun variations, followed by writing dates practice.
Questions about Daily Routines- Mix and Match
Actions you do every day vocabulary mixing activities.
Questions about families I don’t know game
Family vocabulary and third person S Present Simple questions personalised speaking game.
Reported speech guess the situation game
Personalised speaking practice of basic reporing verbs through a fun guessing game.
Sc spelling and pronunciation activities
Sc with pronounced C and silent C practice, starting with a quick reactions game, with contrasts to words with SK and S, homophones, and silent letters.
School Vocabulary- Things in Common
Personalised oral practice of basic education vocabulary by students finding experiences and feelings that they share, with school vocabulary short forms, affixes, collocations and antonyms.
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.
Simple Present Simple questions review
A personalised speaking review of suitable questions for beginner and elementary students, including an extension with third person -s.
Singular and Plural Mimes
Two plural nouns TPR games, with easier plurals, more difficult plurals and words which always take -s like "trousers", with students racting to identify the mime and/ or do suitable actions.
Singular and Plural Possessives- TPR Miming Game
Apostrophe before and after possessive S miming, speaking and spelling TPR games for active practice around the class.
Small Talk in Business- Present Simple Questions
Present Simple questions for small talk in business situations.
Subject questions about this class
Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.
Subject Questions Drawing Game with Animal Vocabulary and Clothes Vocabulary
Students answer subject questions based on drawings of the answers, with amusing examples like a giraffe's scarf and a kangaroo's shoes - also good for animal and clothes vocabulary.
Talking about future desires with 'want to'
Two yes/ no questions with want to personalised speaking games, including names of places practice in the second getting positive responses game.
Talking about Seasons- Adverbs of Frequency
Talking about spring, summer, autumn and winter with frequency expressions speaking activities, including a fun guessing game and personalised practice by finding seasonal feelings, actions, etc that you share.
There is & There are with Prepositions- Make Me Say Yes Game
Prepositions of position with there is/ are speaking game in which students try to get positive answers to personal questions with this grammar, with both basic and more difficult prepositions of location, and controlled and freer speaking.
There is / isn’t / are / aren’t - Personalised dice games
Guessing personal information about your partner with positive and negative there is/ are sentences with a dice for more challenge, range of language and fun.
There is and there are plus prepositions Halloween drawing
Prepositions and position, with there is/ are and Halloween 'things' vocabulary - collaborative drawing cards activity.
Third Person Present Tense Questions- Alphabet Game
Initial phonics and third person of Present Simple practice through the fun challenge of trying to answer questions with words starting with each letter of the alphabet.
Third Person Statements- Bluffing Coin Game
Present Simple with -s practice with a coin deciding if students should lie or tell the truth and their partner guessing if it was fact or imagination, followed by controlled practice of negative third person Present Simple.
This & That Slapping Game
Fun active practice of this/ that and simple word recognition through students racing to touch the right one of two cards with the same word on.
This that these those dice drawing game
A fun sketching game using a dice to decide how many things to draw and whether to draw them near or far away, plus pronouncing prices practice.
Three options Present Simple bluff
One false and two true personal Present Simple statements lying game, starting with easy sentence stems.
Time Expressions with the Present Simple
Four adverbs of frequency and times with at, in and on speaking card games and grammar presentation, including asking questions to get particular answers and finding shared personal information.
Time of Day Trivia Quiz
Pairwork general knowledge quiz with interesting questions on times when particular things happen, including extra hints like "A little earlier" and optional controlled practice of twelve and twenty four hour clock times.
Time- Flashcard Memory Games
Learning useful vocabulary and clock times through flashcard memory games.
Times- Discuss and Agree
Making general statements together on times that people usually do things, inclduding useful vocabulary for talking about routines.
Used to- Trivia Quiz
Students make up wrong options with used to, test each other's general knowledge, then answer grammar presentation questions about the past tense that they have just been using.
Valentine’s cards there is/ are and prepositions pick and draw
A fun drawing Valentine's Day pictures/ cards activity for prepositions of position and there is/ there are practice.
Verb patterns pelmanism game (Elementary)
Matching verb plus infinitive and verb plus gerund memory game, for low-level learners
Verbs and adverbs of frequency bluff
Fun Present Simple practice in which students make true and false personal statements about how often they do things to match the cards they take, and guess if their partner is lying or not.
Verbs and adverbs of frequency dice games
Fun personal yes/ no questions game to practise Present Simple and then present adverbs of frequency like "always" and "sometimes"
Want Plus Prepositions of Position Personalised Drawing Game
Want and want to for future desires and prepositions of location practice with personalised speaking and sketching the answers.
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