Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Verbs that cannot take -ing and will be verb with -ing to talk about the next twelve months

will have + PP with numbers practice for classes in January

A fun puzzle game in which students work their way through a maze by following words with two syllables only, also good as a first step in teaching word stress.

Adding sounds with and without an added syllable practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, including pronunciation of schwa, long vowel sounds, consonant clusters, contractions, and verb endings.

Giving opinions on paintings, sculpture, etc, with arts vocabulary.

Gradable and ungradable adjectives and adverbs that go with them practice and presentation through sharing opinions - also useful for opinions phrases practice.

Typical errors with opinions phrases review

Strong and weak giving opinions phrases, agreeing phrases and disagreeing phrases review, starting with a fun quick reactions game.

Differences between opinions phrases and rephrasing opinions phrases review, starting with a fun quick reactions game

Students guess pairs of opposites letter by letter like a kind of double hangman, starting with very easy opposites like yes - no and hot - cold, also useful practice for spelling and pronouncing letters of the alphabet.

TPR practice of simple opposites, including very basic ones like yes and no and elementary adjective antonyms.

Free speaking practice of antonyms, including seven fun roleplays pretending to have totally different opinions, memories, and experiences.

A fun words with opposite meanings story.

A fun truth or dare-style speaking game to practise feelings adjectives with opposite meanings, including suggested personal questions about feelings.

Clauses with present and past participles and no subject practice through sentences to complete and three fun personalised speaking games

Students use their imaginations and suggested past participles and present participles to tell a story about someone's crazy day, with an optional competitive version and grammar presentation.

Students explain difficult situations with the passive voice and give advice on their partner's problems, then try to remember irregular past participles and match time expressions to different passive tenses.

Students give and discuss their opinions using suggested passive voice sentences for talking about cause and effect, predictions, etc, then try to remember the past, present and future passive voice forms that they were just using.

Students try to use passive voice as much as they can as they repeat back what their partner said about the suggested topics, with suggested extensions and a link to the topic of job applications.

Closed questions with passive voice speaking games, for easy practice of different passive tenses, including points for getting positive answers and a fun lying game.

Lying game to practise was/ were + verb+ing, based on the accusations game "Liar"

Yes/ No Simple Past questions speaking with points for getting positive answers, including typical time expressions with Simple Past sentences.

Typical everyday social English questions with Simple Past review, including typical small talk questions to ask and answer in language classes, and questions for other situations such as before business meetings.

Students practise my, your, his, her and maybe to say what they add to pictures, then use the pictures to describe routines with I, you, he, she and maybe it.

Students memorise useful model texts with I/ my, you/ your, he/ his, she/ her, we/ our and they/ their with a disappearing text game, then test each other in other fun ways.

Students roll a dice twice to decide what verb and particle (adverb or preposition) to use to make an example sentence or continue a story, with three versions so over 100 possible combinations.

A fun card game based on Othello to practise multiword verbs with opposite meanings, with different game variations - also good practice or presentation of verbs and particles which are antonyms.

Card game to memorise phrasal verbs

Multiword verbs speaking practice through a storytelling game, with verb cards and preposition and adverb cards to combine in any way that students can/ want to in order to continue their tale.

Phrases for giving examples speaking game

Fun TPR verb and don't + verb practice for giving instructions/ commands/ orders, with students following instructions their classmates make from cards about what to do or not do around the class.

-ys and -ies ending review, including a simplest responses listening game, mazes,

Positive connotations and negative connotations in reviews of restaurants, etc, review.

Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.

Students pick and draw objects with your, my, his and her to go with pictures of themselves and their classmates, including the option of silly things for other people.

Three different coming up with many sentences with my, your, his and her sentences games, including personalised speaking and drawing.

Two fun drawing and guessing games for possessive S and my/ your/ his/ her, suitable also for young and/ or low level learners.

Antonyms with different prefixes to discuss and then remember - good for academic writing and opinions practice in advanced classes.

Nouns that take two prefixes with opposite meanings jigsaw task, good for academic vocabulary and C2 level classes.

Lots of fun dice games to practise prepositions of location, with versions that are also good for number word recognition, and an extension where students make up their own similar games.

Practising above, along, around, etc with oral storytelling activities