ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 13)

Time expressions and tenses to describe past, present and future data in IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 line graphs, tables, bar graphs, etc.

Discussing performance and progress with verb + verb

Students explain and then roleplay typical realistic situations for them to use English for business and ESP communication, including face to face, on the phone and by email - great for first classes and as a lead-in to needs analysis.

English for logistics students describe typical realistic English situations for them then roleplay communicating face to face, on the phone or by email, and reflect on how the interaction went - good for first classes as a kind of needs analysis.

Character words TPR practice through doing actions to represent pairs of antonyms, also with personality synonyms and students testing each other on the language in other ways.

A fun personalised lying game to practise character adjectives, including personality words with the same and opposite meanings.

A fun card game based on Othello to practise multiword verbs with opposite meanings, with different game variations - also good practice or presentation of verbs and particles which are antonyms.

Multiword verbs speaking practice through a storytelling game, with verb cards and preposition and adverb cards to combine in any way that students can/ want to in order to continue their tale.

Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.

-ys and -ies ending review, including a simplest responses listening game, mazes,

Working out if nouns are singular or plural rapid guessing game

Positive connotations and negative connotations in reviews of restaurants, etc, review.

Grammar words in academic essays, papers and reports review, starting with a guessing game.

Practising through, over, around etc with a guessing game, with descriptions of places

Practising above, along, around, etc with oral storytelling activities

Prepositions in time expressions pairwork guessing game.

Four fun prepositions that collocate with verbs to report speech practice games, including pairs/ the memory game/ pelmanism, a faster card game of snap, and two storytelling tasks.

Three fun games to practise different past forms of can, including typical sentences to complete and a lying game, finding abilities students share, and guessing people's abilities.

Listening for if sentences are about the present or future, including Present Continuous for future arrangements.

Realistic practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple by choosing good small talk questions and avoiding ones which are unsuitable, with optional freer speaking and grammar presentation.

Realistic oral practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple with common everyday conversational questions, including conversations with people who you know and with new contacts.

Present Continuous for actions in progressive and for future arrangements review, starting with a fun quick reactions game. and including contrasts with other present and future tenses.

Present tenses in business emailing and telephoning practice

Present Simple and Present Continuous to describe being an architect, with useful architecture vocabulary

Asking and answering questions in presentations roleplay cards, including discussion of good and bad ways to do so.

Warmer for presentations skills classes, with useful language for talking about presentations

Deciding and stating the purpose of your presentation review, including bad examples to improve

Using the indefinite articles and definite articles a, an and the to make phrases for the start, body and ending of presentations.

Making a personal connection to the attendees when giving presentations review, to link introducing yourself and hooking the audience.

Correcting typical giving presentations phrases

Preparing to answer likely questions in your presentatio, thinking about how to answer tricky questions, then discussing how to deal with other possible sticky points in presentations.

Being polite in presentation Q&A sessions review, starting with a fun game with rude examples and a competition to make them more formal/ polite.

Collating presentation feedback from teachers and fellow students

How to start formal and informal presentations review, including a jigsaw task.

Formal, medium formality and informal presentations review, including phrases for starting, ending and the body of presentations and typical mistakes with grammar and formality to correct

Formal, informal and medium formality Q&A and closing presentations review through a jigsaw activity and brainstorming, then students testing each other on the phrases.

Classifying and using presentations phrases games

Good and bad ways to do personal introductions in presentations.

Good and bad use of imperative in presentations review, covering requests, offers and commands/ orders/ instructions, including typical mistakes with rudeness in presentations.

Discussing and arranging steps to get a presentation ready.

Students discuss good and bad preparing presentations tips, analyse them for useful language of advice, then use similar phrases to give other recommendations.

Short but tricky grammar words in typical phrases for presentations review, including language for starting, ending and the body of presentations, starting with a fun pairwork guessing game.

How to ask and deal with questions in presentations.

Using questions which clearly don't need answers to start presentations and hook audiences review, including judging hook questions which are not rhetorical or don't hook well.

Asking questions to get responses from the audience as a hook at the start of presentations review, including defining good hooks, making suitable examples, and brainstorming phrases for the process of using them.

Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.

Doing well in reading tests discussion

Words and phrases to describe films speaking and vocabulary brainstorming, also good for the language of recommendations practice.

Adjectives with most and -est and the language of recommendations oral practice, including how to form superlatives and how to respond to recommendations.

Using irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns to tell stories.