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Intermediate Lesson Plans for Grammar Teaching of ESL / EFL Classes

Free English grammar lesson plans forintermediate level English learning in ESL EFL classes as well as business English classes. Each lesson provides an introduction, step by step teaching guidelines and printable student worksheets.
Lesson Plans Focusing on Tenses and Verb Conjugation
These lesson plans help students learn to use English tenses and conjugate with confidence. Many of the lessons focus on using related verb tenses during conversation, rather than focusing simply on correct verb conjugation. Each lesson includes lesson objectives, step by step instructions and copyable handout materials for in-class use.
Match-up!
Match-Up! is a game that helps students review basic sentence structure and match these structures to grammar concepts / structures / forms they have studied throughout the year.
Lesson Plan - Future with Going to and Will
Lesson plan and exercises for ESL classes focusing on the future with will and going to.
Sentence Auctions 2 - Lower Levels
Holding 'Sentence Auctions' is a fun way to help students review key points in grammar and sentence construction while having some good fun.
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.
Countable and Uncountable Nouns - Quantifiers
Intermediate lesson focusing on solidifying countable and uncountable nouns with appropriate noun quantifiers.
Reported Speech: Developing Production Skills
Upper-intermediate part grammar, part speaking lesson focusing on helping students to actively use reported speech.
Lesson: Time Expressions
Intermediate to upper intermediate lesson focusing on identification and written production of sentences based on the correct usage of time expressions.
Intermediate Learning Maze
Use this maze as a review test of students' knowledge of English while having fun.
A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous Lesson Plan
This lesson uses an imaginary biography to get students asking questions and speaking about completed accomplishments (present perfect) and duration of activity (present perfect continuous) in contrast to the simple past.
Intermediate English Grammar Review 3 Answers
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study
Intermediate English Grammar Review 2 Answers
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study
Intermediate English Grammar Review 2
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study
Intermediate English Grammar Review 1 - Answers
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study
Intermediate English Grammar Review 1
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study
Conditional Statements
Making conditional statements are an important part of fluency. This lesson focuses on helping students improve their recognition of the structure and use it in conversation.
English Tense Review
English Tense Review to help advanced level English ESL EFL TESL or TOEFL classes and students review all major tenses through first reading, then naming and finally conjugating the same challenging text.
Question Tags
Intermediate level lesson focusing on the use of question tags. Question tags not only help students confirm information, but they also help them hone their auxiliary verb recognition and usage skills.
Comparatives and Superlatives
Pre-intermediate to intermediate level lesson. The correct use of the comparative and superlative forms is a key ingredient when students are learning how to express their opinion or make comparative judgments.
Subject and Object Questions
Intermediate level lesson focusing on the differences between the standard object question and the sometimes confusing subject question.
Daily Routines: Have to and Must
Many students often confuse the usage of the modals 'must' and 'have to'. While meaning is generally maintained in incorrect usage in the positive forms, a mix-up in the negative forms can cause confusion. This lesson uses daily routines and an interviewing game to help students master these important modal forms.
Question Forms
Students who are often very familiar with standard object questions can have problems with subject questions, indirect questions, and question tags. This exercise uses a quiz to help students identify and improve their understanding of the differences i0 structure among the various question forms.
Intermediate English Grammar Review 3 Answers
Grammar Review for Intermediate level English ESL EFL and TEFL courses focusing on the most common grammar objectives and functions, each question focuses on one important and specific aspect of English learning and study

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