Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking

Mixed conversations in shops to cut up and put in order, followed by students testing each other on the shop assistant and customer phrases.

TPR practice of phrases for shoppers and shop assistants, starting with a guessing game and then students testing each other on the language.

Students put cards together to match three typical shopper responses to things that shop assistants often say to them, then are tested on the language in other ways.

Typical shorter phrases for asking for and giving opinions, and their longer forms

Quick reactions game for short answers like "Yes, I can" and "No, there aren't" with students quickly folding and showing the right answers.

Past modals with should for regrets and advice about the past lying game and thinking of the best ideas challenge.

A card game based on Othello to practise words with silent letters and words that are pronounced the same, with cards for five different levels of classes.

A poem to help learn the pronunciation of words with silent letters through which words they rhyme with, followed by other practice of silent letters and rhyming.

Telling stories with words with silent letters.

Words with silent letters things in common and differences activity, including similar silent and pronounced letters.

Card games to practise words with silent letters, including pairs/ pelmanism/ the memory game, and the faster, more exciting game of Snap, with cards for A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1/ C2 levels.

A fun silent letters puzzle in which students identify which letters are not pronounced and put those letters together to reveal hidden messages, with versions at five different levels.

Grouping and comparing linking expressions cards.

Basic adjectives speaking

Easy presentation task for irregular plural nouns and regular plural nouns.

The three pronunciations of -ed pronunciation and speaking practice

Completing sentences with the Past Simple tense games

Single letter or double letter puzzle activity

Apostrophe before and after possessive S miming, speaking and spelling TPR games for active practice around the class.

Advice on using English in social situations, with advice practice and useful social English phrases

How to respond in social situations phrases review, starting with matching three typical answers to common social phrases and continuing with brainstorming and other activities.

Fun review of all necessary language for English for social purposes, with students progressing around a board by how well they interact.

Grammar words in typical phrases for social situations like restaurants and pubs guessing game then brainstorming useful phrases.

Problems with countable nouns and problems with uncountable nouns to discuss.

Personalised oral practice of some and any by students trying to make sentences that are true for both/ all of them from typical sentence stems, with easy and more tricky uses of some and any.

How the word sorry is used and other ways of apologising review

Turn taking phrases and active listening phrases presentation and practice, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and continuing with brainstorming and classifying useful language.

An easy and fun introduction to beginning and finishing conversational interactions

Phrases for beginning and closing conversations review by memorising model conversations with a fun covering the text word by word game.

Beginning and closing conversations phrases review starting with a fun quick reactions game, with students then trying to remember and classifying the start and end of conversations language.

Judging if opinions, agreeing and disagreeing phrases are strong or weak quick reactions game.

Words that go together in strong opinions phrases and weak opinions phrases.

Stronger generalising phrases and weaker generalising phrases review.

Adding adverbs etc to Unreal Past

Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.

Trivia quiz to practise subject questions

Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

Students share opinions with adjectives with most and -est then try to remember and classify the superlative forms.

A fun superlatives card game based on Othello for memorising adjectives with most and -est by guessing the superlative with the same or opposite meaning on the other side of the card.