Classroom Language
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Classroom Language

This ESL lesson plan focuses on classroom language for adult and teen learners at the A1+ level. In a 45-minute group session, students will enhance their reading, speaking, and writing skills through various engaging exercises. Activities include listing phrases a teacher might say, reading comprehension tasks, and matching words with definitions. By the end of the lesson, students will confidently use essential classroom expressions in context.

Skills

  • Students can understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
  • Students can deduce the meaning of an unknown word for a concrete action or object, provided the surrounding text is very simple, and on a familiar everyday subject.
  • Students can give a simple description of an object or picture while showing it to others using basic words, phrases and formulaic expressions.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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Work in teams. Make a list of 5 things a teacher can say in class. Compare your lists.

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For example, “Come in!”, “Sit down”...
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Read the text. What do Mary and her group do at the exam?

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Mark the statements as true or false.

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Work in pairs. Connect the halves of the phrases in the same way they are given in the text.

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Match the words with their definitions.

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Complete the short dialogues with the given phrases.

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Look at the pictures. What is happening in these situations? Describe each picture using one or several of the following phrases: write down, take notes, take an exam, give a presentation, wait for, learn by heart, pay attention, to hand in.

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