ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 15)

An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions

Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.

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.

Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.

Strong recommendations and weak recommendations with medical vocabulary speaking, with suggested medical problems to discuss and a functional language presentation.

Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.

Current affairs vocabulary and strong opinion and weak opinion phrases presentation and speaking practice, with model opinions to discuss then freer speaking.

Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.

Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Trivia quiz to practise subject questions

Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

People's roles nouns endings and subject questions practice.

Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

Superlative adjectives and numbers to describe extreme animals

Adjective plus +est and most drawing game

Good and bad present tense questions to use and avoid

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

Present Perfect and Past Simple oral practice on the topic of what people do during festivals and celebrations like eating special food and staying up all night.

Students practice a wide range of different quantifiers by making up problems and suggesting solutions, with suggested topics and grammar presentation stage.

Future times and verb forms confusions and synonyms review, starting with a fun quick reactions game and with an optional prepositions in future time expressions presentation.

Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.

Advice and language for teleconferences

Answering questions on the phone review

Reviewing business communications through common mistakes

Suitable telephoning and teleconferencing practice for each student in the class through needs analysis and roleplaying the realistic situations that they describe, good for the beginning and end of courses.

Realistic practice of business telephoning for each member of the class through a needs analysis conversation and situations based on their own needs.

Tricky telephoning situations roleplays, for more challenging and therefore interesting telephone phrases practice and useful vocabulary for talking about and during phone calls, including typical telephone phrases with key words.

Line by line brainstorming of a typical business phone call, including getting through to someone, taking and leaving messages, and checking/ clarifying, with two optional extra practice activities.

Grammar words in typical telephoning phrases review, starting with a pairwork guessing game and continuing with brainstorming.

Three kinds of leaving and taking messages practice in a kind of TTT format, focussing on checking understanding phrases, ending with tricky telephoning situations to roleplay.

Correcting typical mistakes with telephoning phrases communicative practice, with optional more basic error correction and brainstorming stages to help remember the correct phrases, including starting calls, the body of calls, and ending conversations.

A fun whole class speaking activity for telephoning and making future arrangements practice in which students race to make as many new arrangements as possible while roleplaying phone calls - good for Present Continuous and future time expressions.

Easy and then trickier and therefore more interesting telephone language practice roleplays, good for mixed classes and telephone phrases review, ending with an optional brainstorming stage and useful phrases to use.

Beginning and ending telephone calls phrases presentation and practice

Students discuss, try to remember, work out the rules of and produce different kinds of adjectives before nouns, on the topic of Valentine's Day and relationships.

Choosing and arranging the best adjectives with typical Xmas vocabulary, including working out adjective word order rules/ patterns.

Narrative tenses practice through the first time I... and the last time I... mini-presentations and suggested questions in a range of past tenses.

Future forms in IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three questions and answers review.

Different future forms in IELTS Writing Tasks One and Two presentation, with predictions, speculations, and recommendations.

Students try to work out and then remember common gestures and body language in the UK, useful for visitors to the United Kingdom as an interesting introduction to cultural differences more generally.

Names of places and there is/ are practice with a fun guessing game, including vocabulary of things in places such as furniture.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking on strong preferences

Advice on IELTS Reading with useful language for supporting your arguments in IELTS Speaking Part Three and IELTS Writing Task 2, including lots of different reasons/ cause/ effects phrases.

Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.

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

Too, too many, too much, enough and not enough in common collocations such as proverbs review, good both as models of how to use the quantifiers and as useful fixed phrases.