Lesson Plans: Functions & Text

How to respond to typica teleconference and video conference phrases

How and what to email after business emails

Roleplaying teleconferences and video conferences, and brainstorming suitable language

Memory game based on a typical business report, helping students to memorise useful phrases for the beginning, body, ending and headings of reports.

Negotiating practice for the winter season, with a winner!

Mixed final lines of the famous Xmas carol

Mixed up Xmas song

ESL lesson plan on typical errors with cohesive devices. Students label mistakes and correct them using a list of expressions.

Polite and over-polite phrases for dealing with complaints

How to ask for and give information, including enquiries roleplays

Key word sentence transformations on email and letter language for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two.

How to divide up the information in an email into clear paragraphs

Formal and informal emails review

Giving advice on good emailing, with useful emailing phrases

Dealing with emailing situations roleplays and useful language.

Talking about and then seeing typical kinds of emails, including different levels of formality.

Similar and different starting and ending emails phrases

Useful language for answering questions brainstorming

How to use body language to communicate, and how to continue those conversations

The language of advice and reports practice

IELTS questions for practising the language of similarities and differences

How to make the Olympic Games better discussion.

Key words for interrupting card games

Learner training and the language of opinions practice

Talking about preferences and desires with useful movie vocabulary

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Changing medium-strength opinions phrases into ones with more specific meanings

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

Opinions language review for first classes

Checking/ clarifying phrases and pronouncing numbers review

Typical errors with opinions phrases review

Strong and weak giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases

Differences between opinions phrases

Students practise restaurant vocabulary and phrases with yes/ no questions and a coin, analyse the language by who says it and the function, then practise more with a dice game and finally freer practice.

Analysing and using the language of advice to give recommendations on how to solve environmental problems

Formal and informal phrases for starting and ending business and academic presentations

How to respond to requests practice activities

Guessing things, places and people by requests associated with them, and brainstorming useful requests for each

Typical shorter phrases for asking for and giving opinions, and their longer forms

How to start, continue and end conversations at trade shows