Lesson Plans: Functions & Text

ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Functions & Text' grammar topic.

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Editing Skills - Unnecessary Words

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Email and Letter Phrases- Sentence Transformations

Key word sentence transformations on email and letter language for Cambridge B2 First Writing Part Two.

Email Paragraphing

How to divide up the information in an email into clear paragraphs

Email- Formality

Formal and informal emails review

Emailing problems and solutions

Giving advice on good emailing, with useful emailing phrases

Emailing Roleplays

Dealing with emailing situations roleplays and useful language.

Emailing- Needs Analysis and Functional Language Review

Talking about and then seeing typical kinds of emails, including different levels of formality.

Emails- Opening & Closing

Similar and different starting and ending emails phrases

Functional Language for Dealing with Enquiries

Useful language for answering questions brainstorming

Gestures- Social Language

How to use body language to communicate, and how to continue those conversations

Give advice on the problems with reports

The language of advice and reports practice

Improving the Olympics

How to make the Olympic Games better discussion.

Interrupting Phrases

Key words for interrupting card games

Language Learning- Opinions

Learner training and the language of opinions practice

Like and would like movies speaking

Talking about preferences and desires with useful movie vocabulary

Likes & Dislikes- Snakes and Ladders Game

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Making Opinions Stronger & Weaker

Changing medium-strength opinions phrases into ones with more specific meanings

Meeting People- Response Matching

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

Need Analysis- Discussion Questions

Opinions language review for first classes

Numbers- Clarification

Checking/ clarifying phrases and pronouncing numbers review

Online meetings discussion and brainstorming

Starting and ending business communications simplest responses game

Easy review of opening and closing emails, phone calls and face to face meetings

Teleconferencing- Tips & Phrases

Advice and language for teleconferences

Telephone, email and face to face error correction pairwork

Reviewing business communications through common mistakes