Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 2)

Memory game to memorise days of the week along with other useful vocabulary.

Students practice the names of days by surveying the class about different actions on different days, making posters, then vote on the best projects in the class.

Students get points for positive answers from personal Present Simple questions with days of the week like "Does your family cook on Sundays?", with more challenging variations for later and better classes.

Students make a draw sensible or silly Present Simple sentences with typical actions and days of the week like "Santa plays soccer on Mondays"

A lesson plan on describing things with prepositions

Describing Christmas objects and characters with simple language brainstorming and guessing games.

Possession and requests language with have practice games, including cards with suitable numbers, objects and situations, plus personalised speaking.

Using a coin for more fun practice of likes and dislikes language with and without third person S, with a coin choosing topics, answers and who to ask about.

Personal preferences likes and dislikes speaking game with names of animals vocabulary, based on pairs/ the memory game.

Funny and sensible colours of objects sentences card games and storybook.

Making yes no questions with want more fun with use of a coin and getting points for getting particular answers with well designed questions, also good for times, feelings and weather vocabulary.

Homophones and consonant clusters with consonant blends like bl- and -nd

Minimal pairs and homophones with consonant clusters for low-level learners

A fun board game to revise Elementary textbook grammar, vocabulary, etc.

Students fill gaps in a typical model pen friend email as part of a guessing game, also good for countries and nationalities vocabulary practice, and describing cultural differences.

Practising colour words through sensible or silly fairytales.

Memorising possessive S with singular and plural family words through a fun card game based on Othello, including both basic and more advanced family vocabulary.

Students draw themselves and their classmates with sensible and silly favourites based on three rolls of the dice, then make up similar dice games for more rounds of the game, for practice of "My/ Your/ The...'s favourite... is..."

Putting nouns and feelings together to make funny pictures.

Making pictures to representing emotions, with food and drink, animals, classroom vocabulary, clothes, household vocabulary, toys,

Students use pictures and gestures in an emotions vocabulary guessing game, then analyse the vocabulary for gradable adjectives and ungradable adjectives.

Words beginning with the same letter TPR game for beginners and (very) young learners, including easy words to learn the pronunciation of first letters from.

Students play a fun Present Continuous questions coin game, answering suitable Present Progressive questions for small talk and rejecting strange questions, including useful phrases for politely declining to answer.

A fun clothes vocabulary guessing game with suggested hints about what clothes are on the card you have, including other useful language like seasons, activities and weather.

A fun guessing game to practise weather vocabulary, including suggested countries and Present Simple hints to use, with simple and more complex language for describing the weather.

Practising country words through personal questions and a guessing game, including further hints about where it is like "Much further East".

Guessing what date someone is thinking of from hints, including useful vocabulary related to weather, clothes, activities, months and days, ending with language presentations.

A fun guessing what date the other person is thinking of game, with hints about how wrong they are until they get exactly the right date, including special dates like Valentine's Day, so also good for cultural training.

Possessions in particular places personalised guessing games, including basic and more advanced prepositions of location.

Have possessions practice with a drawing game, flipping a coin to make it more fun and add negative statements practice.

Students guess other students' real possessions and desires in a fun card game, with useful vocabulary for describing objects.

Have and have got and English numbers funny and sensible matches activities.

Eight fun third person singular of have card games, useful for talking about possessions and third person -s, including questions and short answers.

Six fun card games for practising likes, also useful for third person S practice, including third person yes/ no questions and short answers,

Elementary homophones and minimal pairs

Easy general knowledge questions with fun ways of reacting quickly like slapping number cards, also good practice of quickly reading number words.

Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.

Fun competitive personalised speaking board game, moving around by getting high numbers in replies from your partners.

Very simple general knowledge questions with have that students react quickly to in fun ways like slapping cards, also good for developing number word recognition.

Student A and Student B worksheets with different how often questions for pairwork guessing games, for practice and presentation of both simple and more complex frequency expressions.

Adjectives ending in ed and ing practice through a fun story.

Four fun games to practise verb and don't plus verb for orders/ commands/ instructions on the topic of ball games, including competing to come up with ideas and guessing games.

a vs an before names of jobs, kinds of companies and nationality adjectives, with two fun speaking activities, and country and nationality words presentation and practice

Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.