ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 12)

Cultural differences and useful language related to names

Students practise both subject questions and a wide range of jobs people do vocabulary by setting each other easy quiz questions, then try to remember how suffixes are used to make job nouns.

Suffixes to make nationality adjectives games.

Personalised speaking practice of the language of personal preferences and country and nationality words with a fun lying game, including a coin game variation.

Two fun card games to practise how many syllables nationality words have and/ or which syllable they are stressed on, good for both words to talk about different places and as an easy introduction to syllables and word stress.

First lesson pairwork needs analysis form and link to tense review

Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.

A good first lesson for Aptis preparation, with students first answering questions to find out their language learning needs, then talking about the same typical Speaking Part One topics in more exam style, then finally linking it to real-life small talk.

Needs analysis topics and questions to present countable and uncountable nouns.

Students give mini-presentations on using English, roleplay typical situations where they need to use their English skills, then discuss how to improve their knowledge and abilities outside the classroom.

Past, present and future review

Using a range of tenses to describe language learning needs and experiences

Great practice of negotiating and English for the insurance industry and financial English more generally, with students using and trying to remember typical insurance vocabulary used in negotiating roleplays.

Choosing between suitable, unsuitable and comically bad negotiating responses, trying to remember the good ones, then analysing them for the best language and tactics.

Talking about how to be more efficient in your work and life, starting with New Year's resolutions.

Future plans for frequency expressions and learning training discussion

Verbs that cannot take -ing and will be verb with -ing to talk about the next twelve months

Talking about predictions, plans, arrangements and desires with different future forms and love and relationships vocabulary.

Nouns which are sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable, with different meanings

Kinds of words that are often uncountable listening game

Nouns which have different meanings when they are uncountable and when they are countable review, making the meanings clear and memorable through sketches.

A fun puzzle game in which students work their way through a maze by following words with two syllables only, also good as a first step in teaching word stress.

Adding sounds with and without an added syllable practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, including pronunciation of schwa, long vowel sounds, consonant clusters, contractions, and verb endings.

Describing how numbers are used in English games, including cultural differences

Different pronunciations and meanings of numbers review starting with a fun fast reactions game, including how to use small numbers, large numbers, and time expressions.

Checking/ clarifying phrases and pronouncing numbers review

Different ways of saying numbers, including British and American differences

How to understand and pronounce numbers and social science vocabulary review, starting with a fun pairwork guessing game with warmer/ cooler hints.

Changes in the world of sport language of trends practice

Guessing interesting numbers related to the Olympic games, with pronouncing numbers practice

Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review

Students share their opinions on news and news media with the connected vocabulary provided, then brainstorm those and similar news and news coverage words and expressions - also good for opinions phrases practice.

Current affairs compound nouns and other news collocations practice through giving opinions speaking and then joining together split collocations.

Practising opinions phrases and travel and transport vocabulary speaking, with travel vocabulary word formation and travel vocabulary collocations.

Giving opinions on paintings, sculpture, etc, with arts vocabulary.

Giving, agreeing with and disagreeing with opinions on end of year and New Year festivities speaking, including seeing if those opinions match your political outlook

Gradable and ungradable adjectives and adverbs that go with them practice and presentation through sharing opinions - also useful for opinions phrases practice.

Free speaking practice of antonyms, including seven fun roleplays pretending to have totally different opinions, memories, and experiences.

A fun truth or dare-style speaking game to practise feelings adjectives with opposite meanings, including suggested personal questions about feelings.

Students test each other with interesting general knowledge questions that can be answered with first, second, twenty third, etc, followed by a presentatiob of how to pronounce and write ordinal numbers.

Students use their imaginations and suggested past participles and present participles to tell a story about someone's crazy day, with an optional competitive version and grammar presentation.

Students explain difficult situations with the passive voice and give advice on their partner's problems, then try to remember irregular past participles and match time expressions to different passive tenses.

Passive voice and pronouncing numbers practice through a fun pairwork trivia quiz, followed by a presentation on different passive tenses and irregular past participles.

Students play a fun card game based on Othello to learn similar past time expressions and future time expressions like "two days ago" and "in two days" and past and future tenses.

Practising narrative tenses with a guessing numbers board game.

Lying game to practise was/ were + verb+ing, based on the accusations game "Liar"

Yes/ No Simple Past questions speaking with points for getting positive answers, including typical time expressions with Simple Past sentences.

Typical everyday social English questions with Simple Past review, including typical small talk questions to ask and answer in language classes, and questions for other situations such as before business meetings.

Typical time expressions with narrative tenses personalised speaking game in which students find experiences that they share, including matching times to Past Continuous, Past Perfect, etc.