Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Students complete sentences together with relative clauses to make sentences they both agree on, also good practice for the language of opinions.

Similar and different looking at both sides phrases

Like as a verb and preposition practice talking about places

A lesson plan on describing things with prepositions

Articles and quantifiers with count and non-count nouns to make general statements and with other meanings review

Similar but not identical conversational reaction phrases

Students review expressions that have different meanings in the UK and US and so could be confusing with a fun jigsaw exercise.

An easy and fun introduction to embedded questions through a quick reactions game and common small talk questions.

Common small talk questions, taboo small talk questions, and ones in between that need to be made indirect, with embedded questions presentation and practice.

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.

Fun double consonants before suffixes presentation/ practice

Suffixes that work like magic E practice, with simplest responses fast reactions game

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

Listening to consonant blends quick reactions game

Consonant blends in common words speaking

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

Initial and final consonant blends personalised pairwork speaking

Basic consonant blends practice

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

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

Discussion and debate topics based on world history, including discussion hypothetical situation

Longer and better answers in APTIS Speaking Part One activities.

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..."

Fun Cambridge B2 First dice game to practise personal questions

Intensive practice of the colloborative task in Cambridge B2 First Speaking Part 3 with tactics like expressing opposite points of view, speculating, and comparing.

Common errors in Cambridge B2 First speaking, in FCE Use of English style activities

Personalised speaking as a needs analysis, tying in with personal questions in Cambridge B2 First Speaking

Students quickly write as many different example sentences as they can with words from official B2 FIrst Use of English Part Two tasks, then check what other groups have written.

Useful vocabulary and phrases for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two brainstorming.

Making sounds to represent extreme and gradable feelings adjectives game.

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,

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

Cambridge B2 First Speaking on the future

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.

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.

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.

Making and changing arrangements roleplays.