ESL Lesson Plans

Students fix comma splices. In this ESL lesson, students recognize comma splices and find ways to fix them.  They complete a worksheet finding comma splices and correct sentences. 

Students investigate communication by participating in a class game. In this ESL lesson plan, students examine a list of different sayings which are important for getting around on your own and common in the English language. Students place these sayings on a list of cards and are recited at random in order to play a bingo style game.

Increase their knowledge of the English language through activities geared towards ESL learners. They are split into teams and play a bingo game to identify action verbs. Students draw pictures of the action verb onto a sheet of paper.

ESL students explore English by participating in an ESL grammar activity. In this dictation lesson, students discuss the purpose of transcribing English into their native language by improving their reading comprehension. Students read children's stories such as Harry Potter or Green Eggs and Ham and practice transcribing them.

Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This is as informative as it is fun! The second part to the instructional activity is linked, as well as any necessary worksheets.

If your ESL pupils love talking about movies, this lesson is ideal for helping them practice both informational reading and elements of a story. Given fictional movie posters, they decipher the information and put it into a graphic organizer. They look for plot, genre, character, setting, critics, and show times. The assignment could be expanded to include the movies they already know and love. The first lesson in this plan is linked.

Thorough and well-organized, this lesson plan helps pupils to weigh, build, and refute an argument (the latter of which is featured here; the first two parts are linked within the resource). Given a simplified argument and counter argument, they write persuasive essays about the effects industrialization and logging. The lesson is designed for ESL learners, but can be applied to any class that is working on persuasive writing.

Students explore ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, ESL students read the book Ten Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle. Students discuss a rubber duck and if they have ever seen a real duck. Students use ordinal vocabulary cards to practice counting. Students play a game where they must line up according to the number given to them.

Four different activities provide ESL pupils with opportunities to practice different skills: acquiring vocabulary, giving and following directions, and using descriptive language. Though the instructions for some activities are vague, teachers could take the ideas provided here and create their own class lesson. Follow-up activities access additional skills and can be used for homework.

Students complete many creative writing assignments in their advanced ESL class. In this creative writing lesson plan, students complete book reports, folktales, biographies, historical journal entries, and more.