Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Profession, work or study

Things that make IELTS Listening more difficult and easier review, with ways to tackle the problems and take advantage of the good points.

Students correct mistakes in real IELTS Listening gapfill task answers, including common mistakes with spelling, grammar, use of numbers, and use of units.

IELTS Speaking first lesson with needs analysis interviews and exam tips

Discussing the best ways to do and prepare for the IELTS Reading test.

Count and non-count nouns in IELTS Speaking and IELTS Writing review.

Articles etc in IELTS Speaking and IELTS Writing guessing game

Students set each other IELTS Speaking Parts One, Two and Three questions on the topic of reading, including typical IELTS Speaking question stems, so good for IELTS Speaking, as an IELTS Reading warmer, and as a way into discussing IELTS Reading tactics

Past, present and future questions on common IELTS Speaking Part One topics

First lesson for IELTS classes with needs analysis

Students work their way around a board by using typical phrases for communicating in IELTS Speaking like checking phrases and filling silence phrases, then brainstorm useful phrases and vocabulary for Speaking Part One.

Typical mistakes in answer to IELTS Speaking Part One questions

How to reply to personal Yes/ No questions in IELTS Speaking Part One

Showing range of language in IELTS Speaking Part One by avoiding repeating words practice, with vocabulary from typical IELTS Speaking topics and questions to say another way.

Synonyms and common confusions in IELTS Speaking Part One questions, functional language and vocabulary, including a fun quick reactions game and useful language for making comparisons.

Useful advice and language for personal speaking in IELTS Speaking Part 1

Learner training with IELTS Speaking Part Three opinions practice

Common IELTS Speaking Part Three question stems on nature and the environment, model speaking answers to match to the questions, then exercises to help memorise useful language from those answers.

Contrasting business presentations and IELTS Speaking-style mini-presentations.

Seeing what IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks have in common and then write similar tasks.

Students work out similarities and differences between IELTS Speaking Part Two presentation tasks, then use that analysis to help make similar tasks for each other.

Advice and useful language for IELTS Speaking Part Two presentation tasks

Vocabulary for common kinds of IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks on places, people, things, etc

Comparing your ideas for useful functional language for IELTS Speaking Part Two with a list of useful phrases.

Phrases for the beginning, body and end of IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations

Collocations with "work" for speaking about yourself in IELTS

Students answer IELTS Speaking questions in good and bad ways, then discuss how useful or not those ways of speaking are.

Guessing or remembering the details of the IELTS Speaking test

Useful phrases for checking the meaning of IELTS questions presentation and practice

Students make and ask each other typical IELTS Speaking Part One, Part Two and Part Three questions based on a fun dice game, including typical questions stems to use.

Tricky words and phrases in IELTS Speaking questions and answers review

Typical mistakes with functional language in IELTS Speaking correction and brainstorming, with a big list of useful phrases

Brainstorming useful language for the IELTS Speaking exam

Useful vocabulary for talking about yourself in IELTS Speaking

Filling IELTS tips with language you can use in IELTS Speaking and Writing

Phrases for describing flowcharts brainstorming

Brainstorming useful language for IELTS changing trends tasks

Comparing different kinds of IELTS Writing Task 1 tasks.

Good IELTS Writing Task 1 tactics and language

Closely examining IELTS Writing Task 2 tasks

Students analyse how IELTS Writing Task 2 questions vary with speaking activities, match those tasks to different plans and introductions, then brainstorm useful phrases for starting and ending Task Two essays.

Advice and phrases for IELTS Writing Task 2 groupwork tasks

Grammar words in typical IELTS Writing Task 1 phrases pairwork guessing game, including meanings of prepositions and determiners presentation and brainstorming phrases for the introduction and body of Task 1 essays.

An answer sheet for IELTS Writing Task 1 and IELTS Writing Task 2 that guides students through the stages of preparing for, writing, editing and doing extra work.

Prepositions in typical IELTS Academic Writing phrases pairwork

Simplest responses game for vocab to talk about your job and studies

a vs an before names of jobs, kinds of companies and nationality adjectives, with two fun speaking activities, and country and nationality words presentation and practice

Thinking of what to say or write next in job applications step by step speaking activities.

A fun comparing jobs card game, based on the memory game/ pelmanism/ pairs, but with any possible match allowed, including suffixes in jobs words presentation.

Jobs made of two words pairwork speaking

Is and are and names of jobs practice through a drawing game, including a similar and different jobs presentation.