Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Different meanings of get and collocations with get review through giving and responding to advice on issues with get expressions, followed by a gapfill task to check their memory of the phrases.

Students draw themselves and their classmates with sensible and silly favourites based on three rolls of the dice, then make up similar dice games for more rounds of the game, for practice of "My/ Your/ The...'s favourite... is..."

Making sounds to represent extreme and gradable feelings adjectives game.

Verbs with similar and opposite meanings that share both taking gerund, both taking infinitive, efc

Words beginning with the same letter TPR game for beginners and (very) young learners, including easy words to learn the pronunciation of first letters from.

Useful phrases for polite and casual communication matching card game, followed by students trying to remember the most useful language for business and general speaking and writing situations.

Students roll a dice to decide what to communicate about, how to communicate and what to do during the communication, then take part in speaking and writing communicative roleplays, including the most common functions.

Making and changing arrangements roleplays.

Present Continuous and other future tenses review

Different future tenses extended speaking game

Verbs followed by to + infinitive and verb followed by verb with -ing cards to make stories out of, plus some more basic practice of those two common verb patterns

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.

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.

Six fun card games for practising likes, also useful for third person S practice, including third person yes/ no questions and short answers,

Elementary homophones and minimal pairs

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.

Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.

Students play a warmer cooler guessing game or try to fool each other with wrong answers for different general knowledge questions about the past and present, with a Present Perfect vs Past Simple presentation stage.

Students play a pairwork warmer cooler guessing game with general knowledge questions about the past, then test each other on the irregular verbs they were just using.

Using frequency expressions during realistic everyday chat practice.

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.

Adjectives ending in ed and ing practice through a fun story.

Unreal Past for regrets and complaints practice game

Idioms with the preposition 'like' speaking activity

As... as idioms bluffing game

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

Card game to memorise as... as... fixed expressions

Idioms with the preposition like presentation and practice

A fun Unreal Past lying game, using a dice to decide the topic and regrets sentence starter, with regrets about the present and past grammar presentation.