ESL Lesson Plans for All Levels (Page 8)

The language of advice and reports practice

Students ask for and give recommendations related to character flaws, then try to remember personality words with the same and different meanings in the list they just used.

Easy and then more difficult practice of different directions language in the UK and US, including different names for places.

Simple and more complicated directions practice through a fun coin game, including checking the instructions and giving directions by email.

Checking students understand and helping them memorise directions vocabulary and functional language phrases through fun drawing games, including similar and different but easily confused directions language.

Fun creating a town, office, etc through giving directions game, with useful vocabulary for describing places.

Giving more specific directions practice.

Directions made more memorable, easy to understand and fun through doing actions games, including directions language with similar and different meanings.

International issues vocabulary mind map brainstorming, collocations, speaking and homework tasks, good for a first social issues class.

How to respond and not to respond in the airport, hotels, taxis, etc.

Avoiding common weak answers in Part Three of the IELTS Speaking exam

Students decide how much and how many of which things would make a great Valentine's Day, with nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings and quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentations.

A fun choosing suitable subject questions for small talk and avoiding too personal subject questions speaking activity, including a subject questions grammar presentation.

Fun can/ can't practice with real small talk questions using that language, and a little cultural training

Small talk questions with have got for possession and have for actions coin game, with some bad questions to avoid

Small talk on your work practice, including taboo questions and topics to avoid

Students choose, ask, answer, refuse to answer, analyse and make small talk questions with difficult English plurals, with suitable nouns for five different levels of students.

Students rank, ask, answer and make good, so-so and unsuitable count and non-count personal questions, for grammar and cultural awareness practice, with suitable countable and uncountable noun questions for real-life speaking.

Fun and realistic oral practice of passive questions, with students choosing good real-life personal passive voice questions and trying to avoid passive questions which are too personal, strange, etc, with a passive grammar presentation.

Good and bad everyday questions with the Past Simple tense.

TPR practice of gradable and ungradable adjectives, including adverbs with gradable and extreme adjectives, great for young learners and other active classes.

Students memorise gradable and ungradable adjectives with a fun card game based on Othello, with versions with gradable/ extreme pairs, antonyms, and adjectives with the same grammar and meaning.

Making personal stories more interesting with extreme adjectives speaking, with gradable and ungradable adjectives grammar presentation.

Matching gradable and non-gradable adjectives jigsaw activities.

Students ask, answer and make conversation questions with gradable and ungradable adjectives, plus a gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives grammar presentation.

Students use cards with gradable and ungradable adjective pairs to make conversation questions, match the pairs, add collocations, and test each other on the language - including adverbs with gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives.

Students practise gradable and extreme adjectives with the card game pairs/ the memory game, first matching by grammar and then matching gradable and ungradable pairs, before trying to remember the words they just used.

Opinions with gradable and extreme adjectives pairs.

Fun time expressions practice through trying to guess what time someone is imagining the future of, including suggested future time expressions and a presentation stage.

Fun functional language for giving advice and medical vocabulary practice through a guessing game, useful for both medical staff and people who could be patients.

Practising past time expressions speaking game

Fun presentaton and practice of vital social English phrases for entertaining guests and being invited to bars and restaurants, including key words to make the phrases memorable and for speaking practice,

Six fun speaking dice games for the passive for have something + past participle, including guessing games, lying games and sharing personal information, and suggested common have something done sentences.

Household chores vocabulary and have something done/ get something done

A fun speaking game where students make questions about healthiness, diseases, exercise, etc then flip a coin to see who should answer, with suggested questions about health and useful medical vocabulary, good for both ESP and General English students.

Students share what they think about health topics, for health and fitness vocabulary and the language of opinions practice.

UK and US English for engineers and scientists review, also good for defining things and talking around unknown vocabulary practice.

Students make up false answers to trivia questions with Past Perfect to fool each other with, test each other on their general knowledge, give hints, and analyse the grammar that they just used.

Students try to get their partners to choose wrong answers to how many questions, then try to remember the irregular plural nouns that they were just using in their questions, with irregular nouns from Elementary to Advanced.

Synonyms and common confusions with small talk questions with how, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and ending with brainstorming.

Good and bad small talk questions with how review.

Small talk questions with how review with card games.

Three fun small talk questions with how dice games, including the most typical question starters, question endings, and answers, including ranking strong and weak positive and negative adjectives in answers.

Common words in small talk how questions and answers guessing game, including key words and tricky points like prepositions and determiners.

Realistic small questions with how situations to roleplay, followed by a different how questions presentation.

The two different kinds of how questions review, including a simple presentation game.

Human resources vocabulary and language of advice practice

As... as idioms bluffing game

Discussing and then remembering as... as idioms like "busy as a bee"