ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 10)

Collocations with "work" for speaking about yourself in IELTS

Students answer IELTS Speaking questions in good and bad ways, then discuss how useful or not those ways of speaking are.

Guessing or remembering the details of the IELTS Speaking test

How to answer questions which aren't relevant to you in IELTS

What you will hear and what you should say in IELTS Speaking

Useful phrases for checking the meaning of IELTS questions presentation and practice

Students make and ask each other typical IELTS Speaking Part One, Part Two and Part Three questions based on a fun dice game, including typical questions stems to use.

Typical mistakes with functional language in IELTS Speaking correction and brainstorming, with a big list of useful phrases

Brainstorming useful language for the IELTS Speaking exam

Three sets of complete IELTS Speaking exams on free time topics

IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three on sport

Filling IELTS tips with language you can use in IELTS Speaking and Writing

Speaking practice of language for IELTS Writing Task 1 flowchart tasks

Phrases for describing flowcharts brainstorming

Brainstorming useful language for IELTS changing trends tasks

Brainstorming useful language for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1

Comparing different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 1 tasks.

Good IELTS Writing Task 1 tactics and language

Useful language for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1

Closely examining IELTS Writing Task 2 tasks

Students analyse how IELTS Writing Task 2 questions vary with speaking activities, match those tasks to different plans and introductions, then brainstorm useful phrases for starting and ending Task Two essays.

Advice and phrases for IELTS Writing Task 2 groupwork tasks

How to write IELTS Writing Task 2 essays and what to put in them

Grammar words in typical IELTS Writing Task 1 phrases pairwork guessing game, including meanings of prepositions and determiners presentation and brainstorming phrases for the introduction and body of Task 1 essays.

Different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 2 questions on the environment, including "to what extent", "look at both sides", causes and solutions, and rarer question types.

Linking IELTS Writing and IELTS Reading through essay tasks on exam tactics, difficulties, etc, with typical Writing Task 2 types like "to what extent", "causes and solutions" and "look at both sides"

Grammar words in typical IELTS Writing Task Two pairwork guessing game, with a prepositions and determiners grammar presentation and brainstorming useful language for Writing Task 2 introductions, bodies and final summaries/ conclusions.

Different kinds of IELTS Writing Task Two tasks on housing and cities, including "to what extent", "look at both sides", "causes and solutions", and other less common task types.

Different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 2 questions on STEM subjects, including "look at both sides", "to what extent", "causes and solutions" and other question types, with four suggested activities.

A variety of media and current affairs IELTS Writing Task 2 questions, including both common questions like "to what extent" and less common kinds of task.

An answer sheet for IELTS Writing Task 1 and IELTS Writing Task 2 that guides students through the stages of preparing for, writing, editing and doing extra work.

Prepositions in typical IELTS Academic Writing phrases pairwork

Synonyms and common confusions in IELTS Writing Task 1 and Task 2

Making IELTS Writing language more formal/ academic practice

IELTS questions for practising the language of similarities and differences

TPR presentation and practice of the language of trends

Personalised practice of the language of trends

Language of trends phrases which are similar and different

Simplest responses game for vocab to talk about your job and studies

A fun Unreal Past lying game, using a dice to decide the topic and regrets sentence starter, with regrets about the present and past grammar presentation.

How to make the Olympic Games better discussion.

A fun dice game and grammar presentation to show the different meanings and uses of different embedded questions, including suggested topics for indirect questions speaking practice

Three fun reporting verbs activities with students guessing, spotting lies and finding things they share with the help of suggested sentence starters, including verb patterns after reporting verbs presentation.

Extra sounds in natural speech in IELTS Listening gapfill task

Invitations and responding to invitations phrases oral practice

Speaking practice for difficult plural forms

Rhyming irregular plurals activities

A fun card game based on Othello to memorise plurals which don't follow regular rules, also good for nouns with difficult to remember singular forms.

Memorising difficult plural nouns card game, based on Othello

Oral storytelling practice of plurals which do and don't take regular forms, with cards at five levels from A1 to C1, and testing students on how well they remember the plurals that they just used.