Lesson Plans & Worksheets: General

Good and bad present tense questions to use and avoid

Students practice a wide range of different quantifiers by making up problems and suggesting solutions, with suggested topics and grammar presentation stage.

Future times and verb forms confusions and synonyms review, starting with a fun quick reactions game and with an optional prepositions in future time expressions presentation.

How to thank and respond to thanks review, starting with matching situations and thanking phrases

Thanking and vocabulary for describing people practice through a fun guessing game, with names of people's roles which tend to get confused presentation.

Turn taking language games practicing the language of interrupting presentation and practice

Past tenses sentence completion personalised guessing game.

Prepositions of position with there is/ are speaking game in which students try to get positive answers to personal questions with this grammar, with both basic and more difficult prepositions of location, and controlled and freer speaking.

Like as a verb and preposition speaking on strong preferences

Advice on IELTS Reading with useful language for supporting your arguments in IELTS Speaking Part Three and IELTS Writing Task 2, including lots of different reasons/ cause/ effects phrases.

Different kinds of phrases for interrupting classification and card games.

Initial phonics and third person of Present Simple practice through the fun challenge of trying to answer questions with words starting with each letter of the alphabet.

Present Simple with -s practice with a coin deciding if students should lie or tell the truth and their partner guessing if it was fact or imagination, followed by controlled practice of negative third person Present Simple.

Fun active practice of this/ that and simple word recognition through students racing to touch the right one of two cards with the same word on.

Too, too many, too much, enough and not enough in common collocations such as proverbs review, good both as models of how to use the quantifiers and as useful fixed phrases.

Learning adjectives with too and enough with a version of Othello

Too, too much, too many, enough and not enough practice through sentences to complete together with your opinions, the freer discussion topics.

Fun pairwork activities in which their partners guess which version is British from language and general knowledge clues, followed by a more basic matching UK and US English activity.

Guessing the situation from wishes

Used to for past habits and being accustomed practice through three fun games and typical used to sentences to complete, including finding experiences that students share, a guessing game, and a lying game.

Students make sentences about past habits or getting accustomed to things that are true for both of them, using the typical used to sentence stems to help.

Past and present habits verb forms speaking through a fun personalised guessing game.

Using defining relative clauses to explain Valentine's Day gifts, places, and other love and relationships vocabulary, including a relative pronouns grammar presentation, and moving onto other festivals and celebrations.

Students put cards which take the same verb pattern together, first with no help, then with tips like putting synonyms and opposites together, with verbs followed by gerund, by infinitive and by "someone".

Verb with object, infinitive, infinitive with to and -ing matching memory game, based on the card game "pairs"

Matching verb plus infinitive and verb plus gerund memory game, for low-level learners

Verb with infinitive, gerund and someone matching memory game

Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.

Three fun speaking games for verb plus gerund, verb plus infinitive, etc, with students guessing, trying to spot lies, or trying to find things they share, with typical sentences to use each pattern in.

Personalised speaking practice of verb + to + verb and verb + verb with -ing, with students making sentences from the typical sentence stems in a guessing game, a lying game, or a finding things they share activity.

What follows verbs writing and speaking

Extended speaking and suggested follow-up questions to prompt the use of verbs describing senses, including like as a preposition.

Verbs for appearance, smell, texture, taste and sound practice with sentence stems to talk about together, write down, and compare with other students.

Conversation questions using and to prompt the use of verbs describing looks, tastes, sounds, textures and smells, including like as a preposition.

Verb + direct object + indirect object oral practice through discussing what to do with unwanted possessions when moving house, with thirteen suggested verbs with more than one object.

Phrasal verbs and other multiword verbs including the particle "back" situations to discuss, followed by checking their memory of which verbs have each meaning and the language of advice.

Typical sentences with verb + back to use, a test of their memory of the verbs they were just using, then situations to roleplay for freer practice of multiword verbs.

Want and want to for future desires and prepositions of location practice with personalised speaking and sketching the answers.

How to spell and pronounce words with W+H review, starting with a fun game, and including silent letters, homophones, and comparisons to words spelled with just W.

Open question formation and meeting people presentation and practice first lesson through needs analysis pairwork interviews, suggested questions, more controlled practice, then roleplays.

Open questions and question formation practice through everyday conversation questions in a TTT lesson format, also good for Social English classes and learning meeting people.