ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 11)

Irregular Past Simple verbs with the same vowel sound pron and speaking

Thinking of what to say or write next in job applications step by step speaking activities.

Verb + verb practice through job interview questions

Jobs made of two words pairwork speaking

Students discuss how often to do things outside class to improve their English skills, for frequency expressions practice and learner training, with other suggested advice topics as an optional extension.

Writing reviews practice and learner training, including lots of useful language for writing reviews and possible language learning recommendations, especially good for Cambridge exam preparation.

Students make language learning recommendations based on their partner's likes, dislikes and future desires, useful as like and would like practice and learner training, with strong and weak language of preferences, and freer practice.

Language for talking about changes synonyms and common confusions, especially useful for Financial English students, Business English classes, and IELTS Academic Writing preparation.

Making phrases for controlling group discussions more formal speaking game, including rude language for starting and ending seminar sessions and group discussions to improve.

Students use active listening phrases as their partners talk about learning English, then try to remember the two kinds of phrases for not listening in silence - also useful for learner training.

Students ask questions after hearing their partner's monologues on language learning, then analyse those questions for the form and meaning of subject questions - also good for learner training.

Using language you can rank to discuss language learning.

Students try to explain similar but different legal English words and expressions, including common confusions between legal terms, with two homework writing tasks.

Pronouncing numbers and legal vocabulary practice through a fun pairwork guessing game, including warmer cooler hints using comparative adjectives, then more controlled practice of how to say numbers in different ways.

Extended speaking on patents topics, parts of speech error correction with patents collocations, then patents conversations for freer practice of patents vocabulary, good for Legal English and maybe Technical English ESP courses.

Students ask questions to get more support for arguments they are listening to such as examples and personal experiences, brainstorm useful phrases for supporting arguments with other sources etc, then can use that language in freer speaking about law.

Stages of life vocabulary practice through two guessing games and a lying game for personalised speaking.

Oral tasks to learn vocabulary of major life events like birth and marriage.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking coin game

Preferences and desired with like lying game, with food vocabulary and movies vocabulary.

Animals trivia quiz on smells like, looks like, tastes like, etc.

Adverbs with like and unlike games

Linking in connected speech in IELTS Listening gapfill answers

More complex giving recommendations and suggestions card games

More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games

Fun presentation or practice of phrases for looking at both pros and cons through a matching card game based on dominoes, particularly good for speaking in EAP classes and speaking exams such as IELTS Speaking Part Three.

If + past simple, would + infinitive questions on romance and other relationships, including useful vocabulary for discussing love and Valentine's Day. and second conditional grammar presentation.

Practising love and relationships vocabulary through a fun Q&A truth or dare coin game, with a personal relationships vocabulary phrasal verbs, other idioms and other collocations presentation.

Lying game to practise words with and without magic E after short vowels and single consonants

Gestures and sketches to illustrate the meaning of words with and without E at the end

Fun collocations with make and do practice through pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game and/ or the fast reactions game Snap, including cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 learners.

Fun practice of counting and making words with the right number of syllables through a game based on Scrabble, putting words of different lengths together to make example sentences to get right of cards.

Students use suggested question stems and topics to make first conditional, second conditional, 3rd conditional and mixed conditional conversation questions for each other, with a suggested link to a Business Partner B2 video.

Students use modal verbs and similar forms like "have to" to discuss cultural norms in making arrangements, brainstorm language for doing those things, then use modal verbs to suggest arrangements, say no politely, etc.

Fun competitive practice of phone calls and making arrangements, with students trying to make the most new things to their schedules, with future time expressions practice and presentation.

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

Learner training and practice of conjunctions and other linking phrases through discussion of good advice on studying English outside class, including contrasting similar linking words and expressions.

Students act out and guess actions related to health and medicine, with medical English vocabulary synonyms presentation and practice.

Students interview each other with typical small talk questions for new or old contacts - great as a first class, especially in Social English preparation courses.

Fun presentation and practice of phrases for meeting people for the very first time and people you already know with a quick reactions game, followed by trying to remember those phrases and thinking of similar language for smoothly ending those chats.

Practising closed question formation through typical questions for social situations such as yes/ no questions for starting conversations, ending with students trying to remember the questions they just used, plus an optional coin game.

Students roleplay first and later meetings at conferences, classify phrases for meeting for the first time and again, put them in order, then test each other on the phrases and situations.

A comprensive review of language and tactics for effective meeting for the first time and again, including memorising the most useful phrases, looking at typical confusions, and discussing what topics are good and not in particular situations.

Students use and try to memorise typical responses in social situations with people you know and don't know such as how to answer common small talk questions, in four stages.

Students use strong and weak modals of probability to make guesses as their partners give hints on which places they are thinking of, first with countries and then with cities, with a modal verbs grammar presentation in between.

Students use strong and weak modals of probability to guess which sport their partner is describing, with useful names of sports and descriptions of sports phrases, and a modal verbs grammar presentation.

Students practise "have to" etc as they make rules for things that students should be forced to do, be encouraged to do, be banned from doing etc, then compare with real class rules.

Students practise modals of obligation, advice, etc as they discuss good and bad ideas for language learning, also good for learner training.

Students learn movie vocabulary while they discuss how to use English-language films to learn English, good for learner training with a very popular topic of conversation.

Student learn a lot of useful words and phrases for talking about films while practising the language of opinions, ending with trying to remember and classify the movie vocabulary that they have used.