ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 16)

Learning adjectives with too and enough with a version of Othello

Too, too much, too many, enough and not enough practice through sentences to complete together with your opinions, the freer discussion topics.

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.

Minimal pairs practice for travel vocabulary

Rolling a dice to decide which typical exchange related to travel to roleplay, including practice of typical functional language for travellers like requesting.

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.

Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.

Distance communications related to travel speaking, with useful travel collocations and functional language phrases brainstorming.

Typical travel situations to roleplay, with useful transport and travel collocations in the roleplay situations and then in a joining words together task to test students' memory of the vocabulary.

Tricky future forms review lesson plan with time clauses, verbs, and phrases. Students practice identifying meanings and expressing them in different ways. Homework includes writing about possible future scenarios.

Common ways of mispronouncing numbers review, including L1 interference and sounds which are difficult to say and put together.

Fun pairwork activities in which their partners guess which version is British from language and general knowledge clues, followed by a more basic matching UK and US English activity.

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.

Past tenses for theoretical situations practice through three fun games, all based on typical Unreal Past sentences to complete.

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.

Talking about unpolitically correct language in the past to practise used to

Past and present habits verb forms speaking through a fun personalised guessing game.

Vital verbs and phrases for writing reports through a speaking game

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.

Completing typical writing reviews phrases games

Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.

How to say numbers and use active and passive voice speaking through a warmer cooler numbers guessing game, including different pronunciations of numbers and love and relationships vocabulary.

Discussing if one or more is better for Valentine's Day, trying to remember the plural forms, then generalising about how to make regular and irregular plurals from singular nouns

Fun practice of forming and using superlative adjectives through competing to draw the most extreme Valentine's Day goods and experiences, including a grammar presentation of the five different kinds of superlative.

Using defining relative clauses to explain Valentine's Day gifts, places, and other love and relationships vocabulary, including a relative pronouns grammar presentation, and moving onto other festivals and celebrations.

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".

Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.

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.

Extended speaking and suggested follow-up questions to prompt the use of verbs describing senses, including like as a preposition.

Verbs for appearance, smell, texture, taste and sound practice with sentence stems to talk about together, write down, and compare with other students.

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

Verb + direct object + indirect object oral practice through discussing what to do with unwanted possessions when moving house, with thirteen suggested verbs with more than one object.

Verb plus direct object and indirect object speaking practice through discussing the best rules for a conversation school, with suggested topics and verbs with two objects, then trying to remember the verbs which they could use.

Phrasal verbs and other multiword verbs including the particle "back" situations to discuss, followed by checking their memory of which verbs have each meaning and the language of advice.

Typical sentences with verb + back to use, a test of their memory of the verbs they were just using, then situations to roleplay for freer practice of multiword verbs.

Fun step by step practice of teleconferences and video conferences

Using as many useful words and expressions for talking about special events as you can activities, with different forms of words to talk about festivals and celebrations made with different prefixes and suffixes.

Suggestions phrases and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested questions and weather words to ask for advice with.

Weather vocabulary word formation and weather vocabulary collocations practice starting with personalised speaking practice where students find experiences and opinions that they share.

How to spell and pronounce words with W+H review, starting with a fun game, and including silent letters, homophones, and comparisons to words spelled with just W.

Open question formation and meeting people presentation and practice first lesson through needs analysis pairwork interviews, suggested questions, more controlled practice, then roleplays.

Open questions and question formation practice through everyday conversation questions in a TTT lesson format, also good for Social English classes and learning meeting people.

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

General knowledge quiz on changes in place names for fun, interesting and educational practice of used to for talking about the past, also useful for learning place names in English and their pronunciation.

Will for making up your mind, offers, etc answer me speaking game, with points for getting that response with words on your card from your partner.

Words which take the same affixes listening game.

How to pronounce and spelling words with schwa sounds

Silent letters speaking tasks.