Lesson Plans: Vocabulary

Academic vocabulary antonyms memory game

Synonyms of academic vocabulary memory game

Explaining academic words with two or more meanings, including defining your terms practice

Vocabulary for talking about changes over time in the AWL for EAP classes

Looking at both sides practice with academic vocabulary.

Similarities and differences academic vocabulary practice.

Sure and unsure expressions practice with AWL vocabulary

Expressions for explaining why you do things practice with AWL vocabulary

Positive words and negative words in the AWL practice

Cause and effect phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

Using Academic Word List vocabulary to give advice on good academic writing.

Guessing animals then discussing issues related to animals such as animal cruelty.

Words for describing what people look like with opposite meanings review.

Using appearance vocabulary to tell fairy tales and other tales speaking.

How to describe architecture with numbers review, with useful architecture vocabulary

Useful words and phrases for describing the processes and products of architecture

Typical describing appearances of people phrases with be and have presentation and practice.

Lying game to practise lots of body vocabulary, including more advanced body words.

Vocabulary related to education

Technical English in the UK and USA review, including a TPR game, a drawing game, Othello, dominoes, and a jigsaw task.

Similar and different business and ESP vocabulary

Short forms in business review.

Making phrases out of typical words in emails

Different forms of common words in emails and other business writing, including guessing games.

Vocabulary for giving and talking about presentations speaking practice

Personal questions with business vocabulary speaking game where you have to answer your own questions if you are unlucky with the flip of a coin, with word formation practice.

Discussing the best ways to use marketing methods, then trying to remember words that go together like marketing compound nouns

Talking about how finances change over time, with finance compound nouns and other collocations

Students give hints until their partners guess exact numbers from the world of finance, then work together to pronounce numbers correcty - with useful financial English collocations.

Official and everyday HR words and phrases

HR vocabulary and recommendations practice through discussing solutions to typical HR issues.

HR vocabulary synonyms and common confusions game

Positive and negative connotations in business vocabulary storytelling speaking.

Explaining why things are good business ideas with how the world is changing - good language of trends and supporting your opinions practice, with lots of useful business vocabulary.

Business abbreviations and words which are sometimes wrongly abbreviated

Describing changes in what happens at the end of the year, with presentations of the vocabulary and grammar of talking about changes, good for seasonal academic and business English classes.

Glossary of seasonal vocabulary

Listening and speaking based on the Xmas carol

Categories of clothes list dictation

Picking cards and drawing clothes on people and animals to practise possessive S, including funny pictures like "That cat's socks".

Learning how to read and write colour words jigsaw activities, including easier and more difficult versions.

Colour word recognition word search activities.

Colour and number word recognition practice through word searches.

True and false statements about colours of objects dice games, including classroom vocab, names of clothes, names of animals,

Choosing a colour plus noun and trying to think of as many examples as they can games, including variations to make it faster and livelier.