Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Inversion grammar practice through Cambridge C2 Proficiency Use of English Parts 2, 3 and 4.

Fun practice of abilities modals with a coin for finding things in common, getting particular answers, bluffing, guessing and finding differences.

Speaking practice of the past of can/ can't through discussion questions, with a grammar presentation and freer practice through question stems.

Making funny and sensible "Can you...?" questions activities.

Prepositions of position and abilities dice game.

ESL lesson plan on typical errors with cohesive devices. Students label mistakes and correct them using a list of expressions.

Verb plus noun collocations practise by discussing what to do in situations with make and do, including a missing verbs version, with advice phrases presentation and practice.

Making compound nouns and similar collocations by meaning and number of syllables activity, for vocabulary and pronunciation practice, with extra counting syllables practice.

Drawing to practise comparatives.

Students make funny and then sensible yes no questions comparing people, animals and things with adjectives with -er, -ier and more.

Memorising comparative adjective forms card games based on Othello, with synonyms and antonyms versions.

Giving opinions with comparing forms speaking, with adverbs with comparatives presentation and freer speaking practice.

Acting out adjectives with -er, -ier and more activities, with Elementary-level and Intermediate-level versions.

Students make crazy or sensible sentences with comparatives to draw like "The cockroach is taller than the boy".

Students request better treatment at work then try to remember the comparatives in the requests, good for comparative adjectives practice in Business English classes.

Comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives storytelling speaking.

Personal yes no questions with comparative adjectives game, with points for positive answers.

Count and non-count nouns practice by comparing places.

Phrases to politely disagree with "but" review.

Contrasting conjunctions and other linking expressions cards with four speaking activities.

Linking and intrusive sounds when letters are said next to each other

Changed sounds in IELTS Listening answers at natural speed

Students build up words with three consonants at the beginning and end by adding sounds to shorter words, to make pronunciation easier and make sure they don't add syllables.

Minimal pairs and homophones with consonant + consonant groups of sounds like pl and ngs

Putting words together to make tag questions personalised speaking practice

Different continuous tenses in one speaking game

Different continuous tenses review games

Different continuous tenses speaking

A fun types of words which are usually countable and uncountable speaking board game which students move around depending on the answers of their partners (without the need for a dice).

Countable nouns that have the same meaning as uncountable nouns matching game

Countable and uncountable presentation through guessing the place game

Deciding how many/ much countable and uncountable nouns discussion

A speaking game in which students try to get particular answers with how much and how many questions, including Make Me Say Yes and a card game, good for quantifiers with count and non-count nouns.

Roleplay Business English speaking activities for count and non-count nouns practice, including meetings and negotiations situations to act out.

Practising count and non-count nouns and learner training as students discuss good ways to learn English, also good practice for the language of advice.

Students make sensible or silly drawings in response to how many or how much questions and answers with there is/ are, countable and uncountable nouns, and prepositions of position.

Students compare how much and how many in their recent lives, for personalised count and non-count nouns speaking practice.

Speaking on news vocabulary

Students use relative clauses to explain useful vocabulary for the B2 First exam, also useful practice for talking around unknown vocabulary in the Cambridge First Speaking test.

Students use relative clauses to define what the listener doesn't know in informal personal chats, following on from typical small talk questions and answers.