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Newspaper Crazies
Children's ESL game to help associate and reinforce written and spoken words that rhyme and have been introduced during lessons.

Guide to Reported Speech
Guide to learning and teaching reported speech for students and teachers. This guide includes a brief description, links to detailed explanations, quizzes, free lesson plans, related activities and worksheets.

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

Guide to Present Tenses
Guide to learning present tenses for students and teachers. This guide includes a brief description, links to detailed explanations, quizzes, free lesson plans, related activities and worksheets.

Guide to the Comparative Form and Superlative Form
Guide to learning the comparative and superlative forms for students and teachers. This guide includes a brief description, links to detailed explanations, quizzes, free lesson plans, related activities and worksheets.

Guide to the Conditional Forms
Guide to learning the conditional forms for students and teachers. This guide includes a brief description, links to detailed explanations, quizzes, free lesson plans, related activities and worksheets.

Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Conversation Lesson Plan focusing on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice to discuss a difficult situation.

Focusing on Dictionary Use
Survey to help understand how students use their dictionaries in ESL EFL English classes

How to Choose a Dictionary
Special guest column by Erin McKean, Senior Editor, The New Oxford American Dictionary

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction - Sentence Corrections
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction - Sentence Corrections
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction - Sentence Corrections
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction
Hold a sentence auction to help your ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TOEFL English students at review their English while playing a fun game.

Comparative and Superlative Forms
Intermediate level grammar lesson plan focusing on the use of the comparative and superlative forms

Using Colored Pens
The use of colored felt tip pens to helps students reinforce verb patterns for long term memory through the use of multiple intelligence types, whole brain learning, suggestopedia and NLP

Effect and Qualitative Adjectives - Lesson Plan
ESL lesson plan helping students distinguish between effect (ed) adjectives and qualitative (ing) adjectives.

A Difficult Situation: Using Modal Verbs of Probabilty in the Past
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.

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.

Advanced Maze
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.

Asking Questions 2
Due to popular demand of the lower level 'asking questions' lesson, this 'asking questions' plan is aimed at intermediate to upper intermediate classes to help improve students' question asking ability in a variety of more advanced tenses.

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

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 Maze
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.

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.

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.

Countable and Uncountable Nouns - Quantifiers
Intermediate lesson focusing on solidifying countable and uncountable nouns with appropriate noun quantifiers.

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.

Drinking - Lesson for the College EFL Classroom
Guest Lesson Plan by John Baker: The first part of the lesson uses collaborative methods in an oral fluency and grammatical accuracy activity where students use deductive reasoning to discover the rules associated with past simple construction. The second part of the lesson is an oral fluency exercise which utilizes the past simple tense and apologies to focus on empathy and dialogical reasoning.

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

ESL Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic-Tac-Toe games are a fun way for students to practise their English while enjoying some competition and reviewing. Three versions are included: Conditional Forms, Question Forms, Time Expressions.

Getting to Know your Classmates - Advanced
The following conversation exercises 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 lower-intermediate or false beginners.

Getting to Know your Classmates - Lower-Intermediate
The following conversation exercises 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.

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.

Intermediate Grammar Review - 1
I call this lesson "grammar banging" as it is a review for intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Intermediate Grammar Review - 2
More review for intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Intermediate Grammar Review - 3
More review for intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Intermediate
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.

Learning Maze Introduction
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.

Lesson: Integrating Past Continuous
Lesson aimed at helping students begin integrating the past continous more effectively in written work.

Lesson: Passive Voice
Intermediate level lesson plan focusing on passive voice oral production skills through recycling language in stages.

Lesson: Tense Review
Intermediate level lesson aimed at inductively reviewing names and structures of basic tenses.

Lesson: Time Expressions and Simple Past or Present Perfect
Intermediate lesson focusing on the identification of a variety of time signifiers - expressions which could work in given Simple Past or Present Perfect setences.

Lesson: Time Expressions
Intermediate to upper intermediate lesson focusing on identification and written production of sentences based on the correct usage of time expressions.

Lesson: Various Uses of "Like"
Pre-intermediate to intermediate lesson focusing on better understanding those all important questions with "like".

Lower Levels Grammar Review - 1
I call this lesson "grammar banging" as it is a review for beginner to intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Lower Levels Grammar Review - 2
More review for beginner to intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Lower Levels Grammar Review - 3
More review for beginner to intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

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.

Paired Conjunctions - Not only ... but also, etc.
Paired conjunctions are often used in both spoken and written English to make a point, give an explanation, or discuss alternatives. Unfortunately, not only are they difficult to use, but their structure is also rather strict!

Pre-intermediate Maze
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.

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.

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.

Reported Speech: Developing Production Skills
Upper-intermediate part grammar, part speaking lesson focusing on helping students to actively use reported speech.

Sentence Auctions 1 - Upper Levels
Holding 'Sentence Auctions' is a fun way to help students review key points in grammar and sentence construction while having some good fun.

Sentence Auctions 2 - Lower Levels
Here is a 'Sentence Auction' for lower level classes.

Sentence Auctions 3 - Upper Levels - VERY difficult
Here is another 'Sentence Auction' for upper to advanced level classes - be warned it is very tricky and great for high level students who seem to know EVERYTHING!

Sentence Auctions
Holding 'Sentence Auctions' is a fun way to help students review key points in grammar and sentence construction while having some good fun.

Subject and Object Questions
Intermediate level lesson focusing on the differences between the standard object question and the sometimes confusing subject question.

Tense Review for Advanced Levels
Time for school to start. Before you or your students get down to studying the specifics of various grammar structures, it is a good idea to review the basic English tenses. If you are an upper level student but not yet aware of all the tenses, these exercises will make a good introduction to some of the important structures ahead.

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.

Upper-Intermediate Grammar Review - 1
I call this lesson "grammar banging" as it is a review for upper-intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Upper-Intermediate Grammar Review - 2
More review for upper-intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Upper-Intermediate Grammar Review - 3
More review for upper-intermediate level classes of many of the most important points touched on during the year. Each question focuses on a specific grammar goal - some, any, present perfect , gerunds, infinitives, prepositions, etc.

Upper-intermediate Maze
This challenging series of learning mazes takes an inductive game approach to helping students review previously studied grammar based on skill level.