Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Four fun games to practise verb and don't plus verb for orders/ commands/ instructions on the topic of ball games, including competing to come up with ideas and guessing games.

A fun dice game and grammar presentation to show the different meanings and uses of different embedded questions, including suggested topics for indirect questions speaking practice

Three fun reporting verbs activities with students guessing, spotting lies and finding things they share with the help of suggested sentence starters, including verb patterns after reporting verbs presentation.

Key words for interrupting card games

Students analyse examples of inversion for which key words mean that inversion is needed and what they have in common, then do an inversion error correction task with the same sentences, especially useful for C2 Proficiency-level classes.

Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.

Invitations and responding to invitations phrases oral practice

Speaking practice for difficult plural forms

Rhyming irregular plurals activities

A fun card game based on Othello to memorise plurals which don't follow regular rules, also good for nouns with difficult to remember singular forms.

Memorising difficult plural nouns card game, based on Othello

Irregular Past Simple verbs with the same vowel sound pron and speaking

Students practise spelling and there is/ there are yes/ no questions at the same time, first as a pairwork spelling test and then as a guessing game like hangman, including there is/ are questions and answers grammar presentation.

A fun game for there is/ are practice in which students test the general knowledge of their classmates, starting with a quick reactions folding paper game

Vocabulary related to different feelings

Like and don't like + nouns and gerunds practice with a fun miming game, starting with suggested things to act out their positive and negative feelings about.

Ten fun flipping a coin games to practise like and don't like, including trying to get particular answers, finding preferences that people share, lying games, and guessing games.

Students find tastes that they share with their partners in order to practise the language of preferences, using the suggested topics and phrases if they like, then find differences in likes and dislikes and/ or play coin games.

Students share their preferences to complete sentences covering both of them like "We both adore....", then try to recall and analyse the strong and weak likes and dislikes language that they just used,

Like + verb personalised speaking practice with a fun dice game in which students try to make true statements about their partner(s) and people they know.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking coin game

Students try to get positive responses to preferences and desires yes/ no questions with like, including trying to work out which grammar is needed for each suggested question by meaning and guessing about your partner.

Adverbs with like and unlike games

Two fun personalised speaking coin games to practise first letter phonics and like/ don't like, including with third person -s.

Intensive personalised using strong and weak language of preferences game

Likes, dislikes and favourites speaking practice through guessing objects from hints and brainstorming how people and things feel about one thing, with suggested objects cards and third person -s practice.

More complex giving recommendations and suggestions card games

More complex giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases card games

Fun presentation or practice of phrases for looking at both pros and cons through a matching card game based on dominoes, particularly good for speaking in EAP classes and speaking exams such as IELTS Speaking Part Three.

Lying game to practise words with and without magic E after short vowels and single consonants

Gestures and sketches to illustrate the meaning of words with and without E at the end

Fun collocations with make and do practice through pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game and/ or the fast reactions game Snap, including cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 learners.

Fun practice of counting and making words with the right number of syllables through a game based on Scrabble, putting words of different lengths together to make example sentences to get right of cards.

Students use suggested question stems and topics to make first conditional, second conditional, 3rd conditional and mixed conditional conversation questions for each other, with a suggested link to a Business Partner B2 video.

Changing medium-strength opinions phrases into ones with more specific meanings

Quantifiers to use with uncountable nouns review

Questions when you meet people review

Matching answers to meeting people phrases jigsaw

Modals with probability and other meanings review

Students try to make and explain phrasal verbs with a fun card game based on pelmanism/ pairs/ the memory game, but with any combination okay as long as they can justify it.

First lesson pairwork needs analysis form and link to tense review

Phrases for group brainstorming presentation starting with needs analysis.

Needs analysis topics and questions to present countable and uncountable nouns.

Using a range of tenses to describe language learning needs and experiences

Affixes to make opposites jigsaw activities, with academic vocabulary and Cambridge Proficiency Use of English versions.