Lesson Plans: Verbs and Tenses

Talking about being and getting accustomed writing and speaking games, including bluffing, finding things in common and guessing.

Be and get used to doing communicative practice game.

Strong and weak language with be and get used to doing speaking.

Practising imperative and linking words for giving reasons by discussing sending Xmas cards to business contacts

Different tenses in emails and other business writing practised with key words.

Past, present and future forms and times with business topics

Miming actions connected to the festive season, then talking about them with different tenses

Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

Different continuous tenses in one speaking game

Different continuous tenses review games

Different continuous tenses speaking

Unreal Past for regrets and complaints practice game

Four fun games to practise verb and don't plus verb for orders/ commands/ instructions on the topic of ball games, including competing to come up with ideas and guessing games.

First lesson pairwork needs analysis form and link to tense review

Past, present and future review

Verbs that cannot take -ing and will be verb with -ing to talk about the next twelve months

Students play a fun card game based on Othello to learn similar past time expressions and future time expressions like "two days ago" and "in two days" and past and future tenses.

Different meanings of past tenses, including unreal past

ESL lesson plan on past, present, and future inventions. Includes vocabulary, speaking activities, and roleplays.

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.

Please + verb for offers and commands/ orders/ instructions presentation through contrasts with the language of requests, for and through the topic of the language of meetings, including error correction and sentence completion.

When to use and not to use the imperative in typical presentations phrases

Sense verbs practice on the environment

Adding adverbs etc to Unreal Past

Getting accustomed to cultural differences be used to and get used to discussion.

Past tenses sentence completion personalised guessing game.

Similar and different prepositions of time and other past, present and future time expressions.

Guessing the situation from wishes

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.

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.

Verbs of sensation personalised writing and speaking games, including bluffing, guessing games and things in common

Finding things in common with verbs of senses, including like as a preposition questions