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Lesson Plan - Future with Going to and Will
Lesson plan and exercises for ESL classes focusing on the future with will and going to.

Basic English Lessons for Beginning English Learners
20 essential basic English lessons for beginning English learners. Use this gallery as a great way to study the basics in one easy to use area of the site. Each English lesson provides basic information and is followed by a short quiz to test your understanding.

Asking Questions
Lower level lesson aimed at improving students' question asking ability in a variety of basic tenses.

Basic English Conversations
Basic English conversations help beginning learners build basic English skills. Each conversation group includes a few short conversations introducing basic English phrases.

Beginner Grammar Review - 1
I call this lesson "grammar banging" as it is a review for beginner level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year.

Beginner Grammar Review - 2
More review for beginner level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year.

Beginner Grammar Review - 3
More review for beginner level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year.

Beginner Learning Maze
Use this maze as a review test of students' knowledge of English while having fun.

Beginning Writing - Short Writing Assignments
Ready to go short writing assignments for beginning level English learners. Toics include studies, hobbies, travel, likes and dislikes, application forms, brief job descriptions, recipes, etc.

ESL Children's Lessons - Find the Nouns, Adjectives or Verbs
ESL children's lesson worksheet focusing on recognizing adjectives, nouns, or verbs from among other nouns, verbs and adjectives. Great for beginner level classes as well.

Grammar Chants
Grammar chants can be a lot of fun to use in classes. They are especially effective to help students learn problematic forms, words, etc. through repetition the right side of the brain engages its 'musical' intelligence.

Lesson: Guilty!
"Guilty" is a fun classroom game which encourages students to communicate using past tenses. The game can be played by all levels and can be monitored for varying degrees of accuracy.

Ordering Food in a Restaurant
Beginners' lesson focusing on one of the most important functions for beginners - ordering food in a restaurant. Incorporates two sections from "Beginner's Basics" - a dialogue and listening comprehension.

Recommended Books for Beginning English Learners
Recommendations for every beginning level American English or British English learner including course book, grammar books, exercise book, dictionary and vocabulary building resources.

Syllabus - Part 1: From 'To Be' to 'Have Got'
These eight lessons with follow up review lesson takes students from basic introductions with the verb 'to be' through the present simple for describing work routines, adverbs of frequency, 'a' and 'an', 'any' and 'some', determiners and appropritate vocabulary.

Syllabus - Part 2: From Simple Past to Modals
This second section takes students from the simple past through basic modal forms, comparatives and superlatives, expressing quantities, the various usages of 'like', and appropritate vocabulary.

Syllabus - Part 3: From Present Continuous to Formal Letters
The final section of this syllabus takes students from present continuous through the future forms as well as introducing them to phrasal verbs. Other topics include formal written communication and a beginning look at the present perfect.

Teaching ESL - Vocabulary
Top choices of books for teaching English vocabulary to English as a Second or Foreign Language classes. These books can be used to develop activities, complement class exercises or give students extra vocabulary practice at home.

The Final Scene
Lesson which can be used by all levels. This lesson uses an image of a final scene in a western as the basis to orally review grammar studied throughout the year.