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Using Pictures in the Classroom
Students review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.
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Multiple Choice Board Game
Students are read a list of statements or questions that illustrate a target grammatical structure. They discuss the statements and questions in groups and decide on an answer or response that they then present to the class.
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Christmas Board Game
Pupils play a Christmas themed board game to review holiday vocabulary. They practice their fluency by talking in small groups about whatever the board game square topic brings up for no less than two minutes (or they must move back 3...
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A Recipe for Success
Students discuss favorite recipes from their home countries and help each other to generate the correct sequencing and grammar for the recipe. They write out the recipe using imperative and passive structures.
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FCE or CAE Cloze Practice Games
Students play a "Disappearing Sentence" memory game with a sentence from an exam paper. They write cloze tasks for each other to practice for the exam.
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IELTS - Academic Module - Reading
Learners are given an obscure topic and told to generate six related questions they think a reader might be interested in knowing. They switch papers and answer each other's questions as 'fraud' experts in their best technical writing...
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Describing How Something Works/ Describing a Process
Pupils browse through and take notes from the "How Stuff Works" website and choose a topic to describe in writing. They draft a summary of the text and present their writing for feedback. They revise their writing based on feedback given.
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Article Writing for the CAE and CPE Exams
Students review notes and exercises to prepare to write articles for the CAE and CPE exams.
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FCE Exam Speaking Practice
Students arrange their chairs into two circles - a smaller inner circle and a larger outer circle. They interview each other using a set of questions commonly found on speaking exams.
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Discover the World of Machines
Students participate in a project which incorporates science with reading, writing, social studies, and technology. Through several activities over a 15 day period, they explore the computer, digital camera, computer software programs...
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ESL- Use of Something, Somebody, Somewhere, Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere
For this ESL use of something, somebody, somewhere, nowhere, anywhere, and everywhere worksheet, students complete and correct sentences. They fill in 14 blanks with the correct words.
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Yes / No Questions Review
In this questions worksheet, students read 10 answers. Students write the appropriate questions could correspond with these answers.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson plan focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns - Noun Quantifiers
Pupils solidify their knowledge of countable and uncountable nouns and their quantifiers. The instructional activity includes a number of overlooked or idiomatic expressions to help higher level students expand their knowledge.
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Then and Now
Students explain the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses when speaking about the past and present. They use a graphic organizer before speaking.
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Creating a New Society
Young scholars must decide which laws be followed and how many freedoms be allowed in a new society they create. This lesson plan works well for students of most levels - except beginners - as the subject brings out many opinions.
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Talking About Pop Music and Musicians
Students focus on using a True or False game as a means of motivation to discuss their favorite types of music and musicians.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.
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Lesson Plan - ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Advanced Level Learners
Students in small groups work on opposites worksheet.
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Let it Snow!
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Tiki, Tiki Rainforest
Learners explore fascinating world of rainforest, and participate in activities such as adopt-an-acre-of-the- rainforest, adopt-a-rainforest-animal, sequencing, comparing and contrasting, word processing and searching the Internet.
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Error Correction
Learners are given an example of a biography and they are to find the mistakes. They are to use proofreading marks to mark the errors.
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What's Wrong - Intensive Reading
Students discuss the different types of reading and when to use each type. They read passages and try to find the mistake in each sentence.
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ESL Writing Questions Using Present Perfect Verb Tense Followed by the Past Simple Form
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students use 20 nouns that are given on the sheet to write questions that include the present perfect tense of a verb, and follow that up with a question using the past simple verb form.