ESL Lesson Plans Focusing on Friends and Family

Guest Lesson Plan by John Baker: The lesson focuses on a story about a medical student who was badly injured in a car accident when a drunken driver hit her. During the lesson, students work collaboratively in the pre and while reading stages focusing on comprehension activities surrounding the text.

Lesson aimed at helping intermediate to upper intermediate level students improve their question asking skills when using some of the more complicated tenses.

Lesson aimed at helping lower-intermediate level students improve their question asking skills.

Zodiac signs are sure to cause discussion in class. This upper level ESL / EFL lesson uses zodiac signs to get students talking regarding whether they agree or disagree with their own zodiac signs.

A difficult problem is presented and students talk about the problem and offer suggestions for a possible solution to the problem. While the focus is on the past forms of modal verbs of probability and advice (i.e., must have been, should have done, etc.), it also serves as a great starting point for a discussion of issues that are sure to be hotly debated.

Telling true stories is a basic English usage task that we use on a daily basis. Unfortunately, students sometimes get caught up in trying too hard to speak English 'correctly' and can get lost. This at the cost of the story becoming difficult to understand or even incoherent. This lesson plan is aimed at helping students give structure to their relating of true stories.

The following conversation exercise serves the double purpose of introducing students to each other and getting them to converse from the get-go, as well as reviewing the a number of more advanced structures that they will be working on during your course. This spoken exercise can also work well as a means of review. For advanced learners.

The following conversation exercise serves the double purpose of introducing students to each other and getting them to converse from the get-go, as well as reviewing the basic tense structures that they will be working on during your course. This spoken exercise can also work well as a means of review. For lower-intermediate or false beginners.

Lesson aimed at giving students practice in expressing opinions and using character adjectives.

An introductory exercise for a lesson at the very beginning of a new advanced ESL EFL TESL TEFL English course or as a review

An introductory exercise for a lesson at the very beginning of a new advanced ESL EFL TESL TEFL English course or as a review

Lesson Plan focusing on giving advice on various teenage problems - great for highschool level ESL EFL classes