Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Time expressions and tenses to describe past, present and future data in IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 line graphs, tables, bar graphs, etc.

Listening for what times are being talked about, including a tense review and time expressions review, great for TOEIC Listening preparation.

Students practise my, your, his, her and maybe to say what they add to pictures, then use the pictures to describe routines with I, you, he, she and maybe it.

Students memorise useful model texts with I/ my, you/ your, he/ his, she/ her, we/ our and they/ their with a disappearing text game, then test each other in other fun ways.

Students roll a dice twice to decide what verb and particle (adverb or preposition) to use to make an example sentence or continue a story, with three versions so over 100 possible combinations.

A fun card game based on Othello to practise multiword verbs with opposite meanings, with different game variations - also good practice or presentation of verbs and particles which are antonyms.

Card game to memorise phrasal verbs

Multiword verbs speaking practice through a storytelling game, with verb cards and preposition and adverb cards to combine in any way that students can/ want to in order to continue their tale.

Phrases for giving examples speaking game

Fun TPR verb and don't + verb practice for giving instructions/ commands/ orders, with students following instructions their classmates make from cards about what to do or not do around the class.

-ys and -ies ending review, including a simplest responses listening game, mazes,

Positive connotations and negative connotations in reviews of restaurants, etc, review.

Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.

Students pick and draw objects with your, my, his and her to go with pictures of themselves and their classmates, including the option of silly things for other people.

Three different coming up with many sentences with my, your, his and her sentences games, including personalised speaking and drawing.

Two fun drawing and guessing games for possessive S and my/ your/ his/ her, suitable also for young and/ or low level learners.

Antonyms with different prefixes to discuss and then remember - good for academic writing and opinions practice in advanced classes.

Nouns that take two prefixes with opposite meanings jigsaw task, good for academic vocabulary and C2 level classes.

Lots of fun dice games to practise prepositions of location, with versions that are also good for number word recognition, and an extension where students make up their own similar games.

Practising above, along, around, etc with oral storytelling activities

Students put cards together to make actions with prepositions of location that their partners should do, including fun combinations like "Put your sock in front of your nose"

Two fun students miming actions with particular positions games, including racing to do the right thing in the right place, and guessing what and where the other person's action is.

Students make silly and sensible sentences from cards with prepositions of location

Students make and follow instructions for how to stack things for fun active sit-down prepositions of location practice.

Four fun prepositions that collocate with verbs to report speech practice games, including pairs/ the memory game/ pelmanism, a faster card game of snap, and two storytelling tasks.

Different past forms of can practice through a fun lying game.

Three fun games to practise different past forms of can, including typical sentences to complete and a lying game, finding abilities students share, and guessing people's abilities.

Fun Present Progressive and prepositions of location practice by rolling a dice and drawing what comes up in the table, including funny combinations like "I'm walking under a red house".

Have + PP and Past Simple in everyday conversation review, including presentation of the meaning, uses and typical time expressions of those two tenses, and typical small talk questions with classmates and people outside the classroom.

Realistic practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple by choosing good small talk questions and avoiding ones which are unsuitable, with optional freer speaking and grammar presentation.

Realistic oral practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple with common everyday conversational questions, including conversations with people who you know and with new contacts.

Funny and sensible prepositions of position and Present Continuous matching activities.

Present Continuous in normal everyday chat review for practice of realistic situations like talking to classmates and meeting foreign visitors, including contrasting present and future meanings, and Present Simple and Continuous.

Present Simple with adverbs of frequency guessing game

Suggested vocabulary/ topics with which to discuss and write present tense opinions - good for intermediate students who still need Present Simple and Progressive practice.

A fun creative Present Simple speaking activity based on Consequences in which students take turns continuing a story of a typical day by completing the suggested sentences then folding the page, then compare how sensible or silly their stories are.

Students ask Present Simple questions to find out which of three jobs or countries most match their partner, possible with yes/ no and/ or wh- questions.

Students use Present Simple to try to find similarities between the routines of the people described on their worksheets, with optional Present Simple suggested questions and clues to help.

Students complete typical Present Simple sentences with a mix of true and made-up information, then try to guess which of their partner's sentences are true, including typical key words with Present Simple.

Students classify, ask, answer and write Present Simple questions which are and aren't suitable for everyday conversation, then discuss what topics are generally good and bad.

A fun Present Simple personal questions coin game based on truth or dare in which students might have to answer their own questions, with useful language for talking about routines and Present Simple question stems.