Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

The most common STEP Eiken Level 1 Speaking subjects and question stems practice with a fun choosing random numbers game.

Formal and informal making and responding to requests and enquiries model emails memorisation game, ending with brainstorming useful phrases for the beginning, middle and end.

Lots of formal and casual language for the body of different kinds of emails, starting with a coin game, then continuing with brainstorming and matching useful phrases.

More and more polite emailing phrases game, with an optional brainstorming stage and key words for making emails more formal.

A fun matching starting and finishing emails phrases by meaning/ use and formality jigsaw activity, followed by students trying to remember key phrases.

Common problems with splitting emails into paragraphs reviews, including making rules of good email paragraphing and covering email openings, closings and body paragraphs.

Stimulating work on avoiding typical confusions in emails by classifying common emailing phrases by shared meaning and different formality or different meaning, then trying to remember the similarities and differences.

How to end different kinds of emails review, including typical closing lines for the most common kinds of emails and levels of formality.

Students make casual or rude emailing phrases more and more polite in a speaking game, then rank suitable phrases for the start, body and ending of emails dealing with difficult situations such as unhappy customers.

Typical email sentence starters and the most common ways of ending them review, including the most important phrases for starting, ending and the body of emails.

Planning emails review covering how to split common email types into paragraphs, including email enquiries, applications, requests, fixing arrangements and self-introductions.

Students fill gaps in a typical model pen friend email as part of a guessing game, also good for countries and nationalities vocabulary practice, and describing cultural differences.

Imperative in emails review, including the typical mistake of using please + verb when requests language like "Could...?" would be more suitable.

Confusing academic language and synonyms

Working out what you can realisitically guess before Cambridge First Listening tasks game, including aspects of what should go in the gap like part of speech and kind of noun.

A review of everything in Cambridge First Listening, including descriptions of what students have to do in each part, starting with students analysing the paper themselves.

Tying together Cambridge First Speaking and Writing with Writing tasks on typical Speaking Part One subjects that students first discuss then plan.

Good and bad Cambridge First essays tips to choose from, then trying to remember useful phrases to go with the good tips, including important topics like starting and ending Writing Part One tasks.

Students try to think of the most useful phrases for Cambridge First essays, then use key words to help and to make the language memorable, including typical language for important things like supporting opinions and opening.

Language for formal and informal Cambridge First letters and emails review, starting with a fun jigsaw task and including the most useful phrases for opening and closing correspondence.

Use of English key word sentence transformations-style practice of the most useful phrases for formal letters and informal emails in Cambridge First Writing Part Two.

Discussing good tactics for doing and preparing for the IELTS Listening test.

Phrases that help students work out if what is said is or isn't the right answer in Cambridge First Listening, with language taken from official exams, starting with a listening game.

Practice of vital comparing and guessing language for Cambridge First Speaking (especially B2 First Speaking Part Two) along with students getting to know each other, perfect for first lessons.

This lesson plan focuses on the differences between similar words in FCE Use of English Part One. Students practice creating questions and answering multiple-choice questions to test their understanding.

Cambridge B2 First Use of English gap-fill task games. Students compete to create grammatically correct sentences with missing words. They also contrast the uses of easily confused words.

Practising past, present and future tense with Cambridge B2 First Use of English Part Two open cloze tasks.

Discussing good ways to do and prepare for Cambridge B2 First Writing.

Vocabulary and phrases to write formal job application letters in B2 First Writing Part 2.

Have something done for passive-style sentences speaking practice, including finding things in common, monologues on good topics for have something done, and pairwork discussion - good for Cambridge First Use of English prep.

Cambridge First Use of English Part Two gapfill tasks practice through classification and making tasks for each other card games.

First contact by email, telephone and face to face review, starting with line by line brainstorming.

Different things you do when you make first contact card game.

Formal business communications and casual business communications review.

Useful language for answering questions brainstorming

Comparing IELTS Academic parts and to other exams.

Things that make IELTS Reading tricky and aspects that make it more manageable, with how to tackle the issues and how to fully exploit the help that is available.

Using vital phrases for IELTS Writing Task 1 process tasks then trying to remember them, with a word puzzle to help recall the phrases and discussion of typical confusions in phrases to talk about steps in a process.

Students discuss how to use official IELTS Writing Task One practice tests, put suggested stages in order, read a model process task essay with suggested steps, then try to remember useful language for describing flowcharts.

Students choose good advice for completing IELTS Writing Task 1 essays, then try to remember the language for doing the good things to do, including useful phrases for introductions and the body.

More complex and higher level phrases for IELTS Writing Task 2 essays.

Avoiding repeating language in IELTS Writing Task 1 by paraphrasing words and phrases practice, with stimulating practice activities and language from real tasks to think of other ways of saying.

What to do and not to do in IELTS Writing Task 2 review, starting with crossing off bad tips and ending with brainstorming useful language for doing the good things.

What you should do in IELTS Writing Task 1 and/ or IELTS Writing Task 2 review, starting with a fun fast reactions game, good for learning the similarities and differences between the two kinds of essay.

Avoiding common spelling mistakes in IELTS Writing Tasks 1 and 2 by learning spelling rules such as Magic E, homophones and silent letters, starting with an error correction stage then working out what the patterns are.

Students use and try to remember suitable verbs for describing flowcharts, including multiword verbs, antonyms, and verbs with the same meaning, ending with brainstorming stages.

Discussing how to do and prepare for the IELTS Listening test.

Students discuss what to expect and what to do in IELTS Listening tests, then try to remember the example words and phrases from official tests that are given.