Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Looking at what IELTS Speaking Part One questions are always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely and never.

How to write academic bios tips with conjunctions/ linking practice.

Positive feedback and negative feedback listening and speaking activities.

How academic discussions change from culture to culture, including useful language for doing so.

Grammar word in typical academic speaking phrases guessing game.

Academic vocabulary that shows the writer is sure and unsure.

Useful clarifying phrases for academic speaking and writing, with academic vocabulary

Classifying and ranking strong and weak academic language

Fixing common mistakes with emails to professors, etc, including language, politeness and formatting.

Count and non-count nouns in EAP.

Deriving both count nouns and non-count nouns from the same academic words

Guide to writing to professors etc

Softer making quotations phrases practice, including hedging language review.

More complicated phrases for leading academic discussions card games.

Helping seminar participants participate fully phrases review.

More complex academic English functional language card games

Academic vocabulary antonyms memory game

Passive voice in academic writing and discussions review, including verbs which are never or rarely passive.

Attractive personal statements and other academic applications review.

Grammar words in typical academic English phrases pairwork guessing game

Synonyms of academic vocabulary memory game

Explaining academic words with two or more meanings, including defining your terms practice

Vocabulary for talking about changes over time in the AWL for EAP classes

Looking at both sides practice with academic vocabulary.

Similarities and differences academic vocabulary practice.

Sure and unsure expressions practice with AWL vocabulary

Expressions for explaining why you do things practice with AWL vocabulary

Giving examples phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

Positive words and negative words in the AWL practice

Cause and effect phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

Negative prefixes before AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

Using Academic Word List vocabulary to give advice on good academic writing.

Academic writing needs analysis, brainstorming, discussion and initial writing task

The different stages of planning, writing and editing academic writing like dissertations.

Good academic writing and the language to do it classroom activities.

ESL lesson plan on good academic writing, including brainstorming, vocabulary, and tips, starting with a mind map and ending with a related essay.

Differences in academic writing conventions and language, including lots of useful phrases for writing essays and published papers in English.

Typical mistakes in academic emails, essays, dissertations and papers speaking task.

Guided giving each other feedback on their academic writing practice.

Using personal info in academic bios, applications, etc, discussion and vocabulary.

A big review of different punctuation in academic writing such as essays and published papers, with defining your terms in academic writing practice.

Good academic writing suggestions and language

Practising reacting to what people say by communicating about what you have achieved

Using adverbs of frequency to describe how companies, industries, countries, etc are different from one another.

Using adverbs of frequency to describe what people do games.

Discussing language learning problems with adverbs describing how you do things.

Differences between UK and US English in EAP

Needs analysis for BULATS classes, focusing on functional language and kinds of writing