ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 7)

Comparing the most useful emailing language with correct but rarer forms to help students write typical emails, starting with a fun quick reactions game.

Students make casual or rude emailing phrases more and more polite in a speaking game, then rank suitable phrases for the start, body and ending of emails dealing with difficult situations such as unhappy customers.

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

Grammar words in typical emailing phrases guessing game, with articles and particles grammar presentation, and trying to remember the most useful emailing language.

Typical email sentence starters and the most common ways of ending them review, including the most important phrases for starting, ending and the body of emails.

Planning emails review covering how to split common email types into paragraphs, including email enquiries, applications, requests, fixing arrangements and self-introductions.

English for the insurance industry emailing practice

Imperative in emails review, including the typical mistake of using please + verb when requests language like "Could...?" would be more suitable.

Students practise vocabulary and pronunciation by joining collocations of a certain number of syllables, including not putting extra syllables into consonant clusters practice.

First lesson for students in logistics companies and departments, starting with pairwork needs analysis and continuing to roleplays of the most realistic situations for their own jobs.

Describing and comparing technologies games

Longer and better answers in APTIS Speaking Part One activities.

Making descriptions of sports guessing game and cultural exchange practice

Fun family member vocabulary practice through a general knowledge quiz, with students making up wrong answers to trick each other with, then brainstorming words for male and female family members.

Flipping a coin to practise family vocabulary

Students practise reacting while they listen to each other talk about family members, then brainstorm suitable active listening language and relationships vocabulary for that speaking.

Discussing good tactics for doing and preparing for the IELTS Listening test.

Fun Cambridge B2 First dice game to practise personal questions

Making sounds to represent extreme and gradable feelings adjectives game.

Festivals and celebrations vocabulary spelling and pronunciation mistakes related to initial consonant clusters and final consonant clusters.

Countable and uncountable nouns with a lot of, some, not much, not many, a and not any pairwork speaking, including guessing the festival or celebration and comparing experiecnes with their partner

Words which sound similar to festivals vocabulary, with useful phrases for describing traditional and modern celebrations and practice of typical confusions

Letters which are not pronounced in words related to festivals and celebrations in different countries like Xmas, traditional summer festivals, and weddings.

Students discuss what rules they want for Xmas and then for other seasonal events for practice of modals and similar language like have to and allowed to, good for business grammar classes.

Telephoning practice on Xmas topics and then about other life events and celebrations, good for adding a lighter touch and some seasonality to Business English classes.

Language of advice/ suggestions/ recommendations practice on the topic of seasonal festivals and celebrations, good for functional language speaking at particular times of the year.

Verbs with similar and opposite meanings that share both taking gerund, both taking infinitive, efc

30 email, telephone and face to face roleplays

Different things you do when you make first contact card game.

Experiences with food and drink speaking, with useful words for talking about eating and drinking, and a Present Perfect Simple for experiences grammar presentation.

Teaching count and non-count with food which can be both with different meanings

Formal business communications and casual business communications review.

Useful phrases for polite and casual communication matching card game, followed by students trying to remember the most useful language for business and general speaking and writing situations.

Talking about leisure lying game

Guessing people's statements about their leisure game, with common phrases for talking about free time

More often and less often time expressions presentation and practice card games, including asking questions to get particular adverbs of frequency and similar expressions with numbers.

Students roll a dice to decide what to communicate about, how to communicate and what to do during the communication, then take part in speaking and writing communicative roleplays, including the most common functions.

Useful socialising in restaurants phrases simplest responses game.

The most common future verb forms in IELTS Speaking, Writing Task One and Writing Task Two review, starting with matching the examples to different parts of the test and then trying to remember them.

A fun will for future predictions practice guessing game, with future technologies vocabulary to make predictions about, especially good for English for engineers/ Technical English classes.

Personalised speaking practice of a wide range of future verb forms and future time expressions, with students then recalling and analysing the forms they used.

Students ask for and give advice on the future to practise a wide range of future time expressions, including prepositions of time presentation and practice, and useful language of advice.

Using hedging language to make soft and strong statements about traditional events, including asking and answering how + adjectives questions

Brands which have become English words review, starting with four fun speaking activities, then with a vocabulary presentation.

Verbs followed by to + infinitive and verb followed by verb with -ing cards to make stories out of, plus some more basic practice of those two common verb patterns

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

The language of advice and reports practice

Students ask for and give recommendations related to character flaws, then try to remember personality words with the same and different meanings in the list they just used.

Easy and then more difficult practice of different directions language in the UK and US, including different names for places.

Simple and more complicated directions practice through a fun coin game, including checking the instructions and giving directions by email.