Lesson Plans: Vocabulary

Guess the colour games.

Personal yes no questions about colours speaking games, with one point for positive answers, including questions with do and have.

Different kinds of customer and kinds of insurance speaking

Yes no questions with names of countries and nationality adjective + noun games, followed by students drilling nationality adjectives word formation.

Guessing nationalities by people and things from that place

True and false statements with country and nationality words speaking.

Lying game to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives, with suggested yes no questions about countries and things from particular places.

Students draw and guess countries and famous things from those countries to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives,

A fun memory card game based on Othello to memorise names of countries and nationality adjectives, including versions in full sentences with Present Simple of be, with third person and with contractions.

Personal conversation questions for speaking practice of country names and nationality adjectives, including discussing favourites and experiences.

Students play games by completing typical sentences for country and nationality words, including finding things in common, bluffing, and guessing.

Students tell stories based on useful crime and law vocabulary, using their imaginations if they like, classify that vocabulary, then test each other on it in different ways.

Crime vocabulary discussion questions

Speaking on news vocabulary

Memory game to memorise days of the week along with other useful vocabulary.

Describing physical appearance with nouns and adjectives plus verbs speaking.

Practising music vocabulary with personalised speaking practice.

Practising architecture vocabulary and numbers together

Funny and sensible colours of objects sentences card games and storybook.

Lots of useful English for engineers vocabulary

Onomatopoeia in English review and speaking activities

Making descriptions of sports guessing game and cultural exchange practice

Practising colour words through sensible or silly fairytales.

Fun family member vocabulary practice through a general knowledge quiz, with students making up wrong answers to trick each other with, then brainstorming words for male and female family members.

Flipping a coin to practise family vocabulary

Memorising possessive S with singular and plural family words through a fun card game based on Othello, including both basic and more advanced family vocabulary.

Putting nouns and feelings together to make funny pictures.

Making pictures to representing emotions, with food and drink, animals, classroom vocabulary, clothes, household vocabulary, toys,

Students use pictures and gestures in an emotions vocabulary guessing game, then analyse the vocabulary for gradable adjectives and ungradable adjectives.

Language of advice/ suggestions/ recommendations practice on the topic of seasonal festivals and celebrations, good for functional language speaking at particular times of the year.

Competing to think of food vocabulary

Talking about leisure lying game

Designing and discussing green spaces vocabulary and speaking

Vocabulary that tends to be used with specific genders review and discussion

Brands which have become English words review, starting with four fun speaking activities, then with a vocabulary presentation.

Students ask for and give recommendations related to character flaws, then try to remember personality words with the same and different meanings in the list they just used.

Simple and more complicated directions practice through a fun coin game, including checking the instructions and giving directions by email.

International issues vocabulary mind map brainstorming, collocations, speaking and homework tasks, good for a first social issues class.

A fun clothes vocabulary guessing game with suggested hints about what clothes are on the card you have, including other useful language like seasons, activities and weather.

A fun guessing game to practise weather vocabulary, including suggested countries and Present Simple hints to use, with simple and more complex language for describing the weather.

Practising country words through personal questions and a guessing game, including further hints about where it is like "Much further East".

A fun speaking game where students make questions about healthiness, diseases, exercise, etc then flip a coin to see who should answer, with suggested questions about health and useful medical vocabulary, good for both ESP and General English students.

Students share what they think about health topics, for health and fitness vocabulary and the language of opinions practice.