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Dive into the vast collection at UsingEnglish.com, where over 1,447 meticulously crafted PDF lesson plans await you. Where necessary, these plans come with answers and teachers' notes, ensuring that you're well-equipped for all levels, including exam lessons. Whether you're teaching beginners or advanced students, this resource promises high-quality content that can make your lesson planning seamless and effective. We provide you with rich and diverse topics, all tailored for the ESL/EFL teaching community.

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Academic English- Clarification

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Useful clarifying phrases for academic speaking and writing, with academic vocabulary

Academic English- Adverbs of Certainty and Uncertainty

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Academic vocabulary that shows the writer is sure and unsure.

Academic English Discussions- Prepositions and Determiners Pairwork

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Grammar word in typical academic speaking phrases guessing game.

Academic English Discussions- Cultural Differences and Useful Phrases

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | How academic discussions change from culture to culture, including useful language for doing so.

Academic Discussions- Giving Positive and Negative Feedback

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Positive feedback and negative feedback listening and speaking activities.

Academic Bios- Tips and Connecting Expressions Practice

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | How to write academic bios tips with conjunctions/ linking practice.

101 IELTS Speaking Part Two topic cards that tie in with IELTS Speaking Part One

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Linking smoothly from personal questions in Speaking Part Two to the same topics in Speaking Part Two

101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about the Past, Present and Future

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Practising a range of tenses for and by IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations

101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about sports and hobbies

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Over 100 IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations on free time activities

101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about people, places, actions, things and times

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Analysing and doing the most common kinds of IELTS Speaking Part Two presentation tasks

100 IELTS Speaking Part One Typical Questions Analysis

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Looking at what IELTS Speaking Part One questions are always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely and never.

"Like" and "Be Like" Games

Updated: 4th Jul. 2024 | Like as a verb or preposition games

IELTS Speaking- Candidate & Examiner Game

Updated: 2nd Jul. 2024 | This lesson plan focuses on preparing students for the IELTS Speaking section, teaching them what to expect and how to respond.

If only & I wish Regrets Dice Bluffing Game

Updated: 2nd Jul. 2024 | A fun Unreal Past lying game, using a dice to decide the topic and regrets sentence starter, with regrets about the present and past grammar presentation.

IELTS Speaking Part One- Dice Game

Updated: 2nd Jul. 2024 | An IELTS Speaking Part One game where students roll dice to determine the topic of personal questions they ask each other. Topics include arts, studies, hobbies, work, hometown, and accommodation.

Financial vocabulary pronunciation the same or different

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Confusions with money and finance vocabulary related to homophones and minimal pairs review, starting with a quick reactions simplest responses game and ending with error correction.

University Applications- Tips and Useful Phrases

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | How to apply for courses and what phrases to use to do so, presented by students choosing good tips and then trying to remember the language related to that advice.

Unreal Past Sentence Completion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Past tenses for theoretical situations practice through three fun games, all based on typical Unreal Past sentences to complete.

Used to, be used to and get used to- discuss and agree

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students make sentences about past habits or getting accustomed to things that are true for both of them, using the typical used to sentence stems to help.

Used to, be used to and get used to sentence completion games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Used to for past habits and being accustomed practice through three fun games and typical used to sentences to complete, including finding experiences that students share, a guessing game, and a lying game.

Used to- Trivia Quiz

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students make up wrong options with used to, test each other's general knowledge, then answer grammar presentation questions about the past tense that they have just been using.

Used to/Would Speaking Game

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Past and present habits verb forms speaking through a fun personalised guessing game.

Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.

Verb Patterns

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students put cards which take the same verb pattern together, first with no help, then with tips like putting synonyms and opposites together, with verbs followed by gerund, by infinitive and by "someone".

Verb Patterns- Sentence Completion Guessing Games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Three fun speaking games for verb plus gerund, verb plus infinitive, etc, with students guessing, trying to spot lies, or trying to find things they share, with typical sentences to use each pattern in.

Verb Patterns with Reporting Verbs Activities

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.

Verb Plus Gerund and Infinitive Sentence Completion Games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Personalised speaking practice of verb + to + verb and verb + verb with -ing, with students making sentences from the typical sentence stems in a guessing game, a lying game, or a finding things they share activity.

Verbs of Sensation- Discuss and Agree

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Verbs for appearance, smell, texture, taste and sound practice with sentence stems to talk about together, write down, and compare with other students.

Verbs of Sensation- Discussion Questions

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Conversation questions using and to prompt the use of verbs describing looks, tastes, sounds, textures and smells, including like as a preposition.

Verbs of Sensation Mini-Presentations

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Extended speaking and suggested follow-up questions to prompt the use of verbs describing senses, including like as a preposition.

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