Lesson Plans: Functional Language
ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Functional Language' grammar topic.
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Negotiations- Responding
Choosing between suitable, unsuitable and comically bad negotiating responses, trying to remember the good ones, then analysing them for the best language and tactics.
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Opening and Closing Formal and Informal Emails and Letters
Starting and ending polite and friendly emails and letters review
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Opinions on Xmas and New Year liberal and conservative views discussion
Giving, agreeing with and disagreeing with opinions on end of year and New Year festivities speaking, including seeing if those opinions match your political outlook
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Personalised Instant Roleplays
Students explain and then roleplay typical realistic situations for them to use English for business and ESP communication, including face to face, on the phone and by email - great for first classes and as a lead-in to needs analysis.
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Personalised instant roleplays for logistics
English for logistics students describe typical realistic English situations for them then roleplay communicating face to face, on the phone or by email, and reflect on how the interaction went - good for first classes as a kind of needs analysis.
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Phrases for explaining festivals and celebrations challenge
Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.
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Positive and Negative Responses- Restaurant Language Games
Students practise restaurant vocabulary and phrases with yes/ no questions and a coin, analyse the language by who says it and the function, then practise more with a dice game and finally freer practice.
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Presentations- Aims
Deciding and stating the purpose of your presentation review, including bad examples to improve
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Presentations- Formality
How to start formal and informal presentations review, including a jigsaw task.
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Presentations- Introducing Yourself
Good and bad ways to do personal introductions in presentations.
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Quoting Practice Game
Lying game to practise phrases for quoting sources, especially useful for EAP classes
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Ranking Weak and Strong Opinion Phrases
Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.
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Recommendations with Movie Vocabulary
Words and phrases to describe films speaking and vocabulary brainstorming, also good for the language of recommendations practice.
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Requests & Enquiries Board Game
A fun dealing with requests and questions controlled practice speaking game in which students move around the board by making phrases more and more polite/ formal.
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Requests and Enquiries- Line-by-line Brainstorming
Presentation or practice of how to respond to requests and asking for information through predicting the next line of typical dialogues and then brainstorming useful phrases.
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Requests- Guessing Games
Guessing things, places and people by requests associated with them, and brainstorming useful requests for each
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Responding to Requests- Politeness Completion Game
Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses
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Sharing Personal Experiences- Phrases Practice
Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking
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Shopping Dialogue- Jigsaw Text
Mixed conversations in shops to cut up and put in order, followed by students testing each other on the shop assistant and customer phrases.
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Shopping Language Mimes
TPR practice of phrases for shoppers and shop assistants, starting with a guessing game and then students testing each other on the language.
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Shopping Responses
Students put cards together to match three typical shopper responses to things that shop assistants often say to them, then are tested on the language in other ways.
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Social English problems and solutions
Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases
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Speaker or Listener- Simplest Responses Game
Turn taking phrases and active listening phrases presentation and practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and continuing with brainstorming and classifying useful language.
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Starting and ending conversations simplest responses game
An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions
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Starting and Ending Conversations- Disappearing Text Memory Game
Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.
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Starting and Ending Conversations- Simplest Responses
Beginning and closing conversations phrases review starting with a fun quick reactions game, with students then trying to remember and classifying the start and end of conversations language.
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Strong & Weak Opinions
Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.
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Strong and Weak Medical Advice
Strong recommendations and weak recommendations with medical vocabulary speaking, with suggested medical problems to discuss and a functional language presentation.
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Strong and Weak Opinions
Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.
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Strong and weak opinions on the news and media
Current affairs vocabulary and strong opinion and weak opinion phrases presentation and speaking practice, with model opinions to discuss then freer speaking.
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Stronger and Weaker Hedging Language
Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.
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Telecommuting Policies- Roleplay Meeting
Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.
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Telephone Phrases- Brainstorming and Roleplays
Completing telephoning phrases through brainstorming and roleplays. Students practice different phrases for telephoning situations. They test each other in pairs and roleplay conversations.
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Test each other on insurance vocabulary checking/ clarifying practice
Useful checking/ clarifying questions on financial and business vocabulary, particularly for the insurance industry
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Thanking in English
How to thank and respond to thanks review, starting with matching situations and thanking phrases
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Thanking People- Game
Thanking and vocabulary for describing people practice through a fun guessing game, with names of people's roles which tend to get confused presentation.
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The Language of Interrupting
Turn taking language games practicing the language of interrupting presentation and practice
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Things to do when you interrupt
Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.
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Travel and Tourism Recommendations- Numbers Practice
Pronouncing numbers, giving advice and travel and tourism vocabulary speaking practice, including students discussing their own real travel suggestions based on typical situations for using numbers.
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Travel English- Imperatives and Requests Practice
Contrasting commands and offers from travel staff with please + verb with requests from travellers with can/ could, including the most common phrases to say and hear while travelling.
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Travel English- Simplest Responses and Key Words Games
Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.
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Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion
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.
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Valentine’s Day in different places comparing practice
Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.
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