Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Students put cards together to make actions with prepositions of location that their partners should do, including fun combinations like "Put your sock in front of your nose"

Two fun students miming actions with particular positions games, including racing to do the right thing in the right place, and guessing what and where the other person's action is.

Students make silly and sensible sentences from cards with prepositions of location

Students make and follow instructions for how to stack things for fun active sit-down prepositions of location practice.

Four fun prepositions that collocate with verbs to report speech practice games, including pairs/ the memory game/ pelmanism, a faster card game of snap, and two storytelling tasks.

Can, could, was able to and managed to speaking practice through five different dice games.

Different past forms of can practice through a fun lying game.

Three fun games to practise different past forms of can, including typical sentences to complete and a lying game, finding abilities students share, and guessing people's abilities.

Fun Present Progressive and prepositions of location practice by rolling a dice and drawing what comes up in the table, including funny combinations like "I'm walking under a red house".

Have + PP and Past Simple in everyday conversation review, including presentation of the meaning, uses and typical time expressions of those two tenses, and typical small talk questions with classmates and people outside the classroom.

Realistic practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple by choosing good small talk questions and avoiding ones which are unsuitable, with optional freer speaking and grammar presentation.

Realistic oral practice of Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple with common everyday conversational questions, including conversations with people who you know and with new contacts.

Funny and sensible prepositions of position and Present Continuous matching activities.

Present Continuous in normal everyday chat review for practice of realistic situations like talking to classmates and meeting foreign visitors, including contrasting present and future meanings, and Present Simple and Continuous.

Present Simple with adverbs of frequency guessing game

Suggested vocabulary/ topics with which to discuss and write present tense opinions - good for intermediate students who still need Present Simple and Progressive practice.

A fun creative Present Simple speaking activity based on Consequences in which students take turns continuing a story of a typical day by completing the suggested sentences then folding the page, then compare how sensible or silly their stories are.

Students ask Present Simple questions to find out which of three jobs or countries most match their partner, possible with yes/ no and/ or wh- questions.

Students use Present Simple to try to find similarities between the routines of the people described on their worksheets, with optional Present Simple suggested questions and clues to help.

Students complete typical Present Simple sentences with a mix of true and made-up information, then try to guess which of their partner's sentences are true, including typical key words with Present Simple.

Students classify, ask, answer and write Present Simple questions which are and aren't suitable for everyday conversation, then discuss what topics are generally good and bad.

A fun Present Simple personal questions coin game based on truth or dare in which students might have to answer their own questions, with useful language for talking about routines and Present Simple question stems.

Guessing which of six people your partner chose by asking easy Present Simple questions about their family, appearance, habits, etc.

Speaking game in which students move around a board without a dice by making as many true Present Simple statements about their partner as they can about the word/ topic of the square they are on.

Present Simple with final -s speaking games, first guessing the person and then brainstorming descriptions, with useful vocabulary for describing people with Present Simple.

Making up false meanings of proverbs bluffing game

Yes/ No questions with can speaking game

Working out which opinions phrases are stronger, including strong and weak agreeing and disagreeing.

Places for foreign visitors to go to speaking.

Adjectives with most and -est and the language of recommendations oral practice, including how to form superlatives and how to respond to recommendations.

Using irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns to tell stories.

Two fun reported questions speaking games, starting with small talk and with a grammar presentation in between.

Conversation questions for free speaking practice of indirect speech, including both personal questions and opinion questions.

Students try to remember and report back a conversation that their partner really had - good for controlled communicative practice, personalisation, and students getting to know each other.

A lying game for fun oral practice of indirect speech, with an optional grammar presentation, with suggested typical conversations to report.

Mini-presentations for indirect speech free speaking practice, with suggested presentation topics and suggested follow-up questions for the people listening.

Typical confusions with reported speech review through labelling diffences in meaning and synonyms, including backshift and no backshift, and different reporting verbs.

Verbs for reporting speech with the same and different meaning, including common mistakes with reporting verbs.

A fun dealing with requests and questions controlled practice speaking game in which students move around the board by making phrases more and more polite/ formal.

How to respond to requests practice activities

Positive and negative answers to requests practice, including more polite responses

Sc with pronounced C and silent C practice, starting with a quick reactions game, with contrasts to words with SK and S, homophones, and silent letters.

Discussing films with if + past simple, would

Talking about precautions with "in case" speaking practice, including suggested topics and sentence stems.