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ESL Grammar Lesson Plans

Enhance your students' vocabulary skills with our ESL vocabulary lesson plans. These lessons offer structured activities to help students learn and retain new words, boosting their ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken English. Fun and engaging, they focus on practical vocabulary usage for real-world contexts.

A2
Good at, Bad at with The Big Bang Theory

This fun and engaging ESL lesson plan for teens and adults helps students practice grammar, build vocabulary, and improve their speaking skills using characters from The Big Bang Theory. Through group discussions, character analysis, and real-life examples, students explore how to use the expressions "be good at" and "be bad at" in context. The 45-minute lesson plan includes reading, comprehension, and interactive group activities designed to boost fluency and confidence. Perfect for A2 learners looking to combine pop culture with everyday English use.

B1-B2
If You Were One of the Friends

This engaging lesson plan designed for adults and teens (B1/B2 level) targets speaking skills and second conditional grammar through discussions, character matching, opinion analysis, and creative role-play scenarios. Students practice describing hypothetical situations, unscramble sentences to reinforce grammar rules, and debate which Friends character they relate to most. Perfect for fans of the show, this lesson plan combines pop culture fun with practical language development, encouraging fluency and confidence in imaginative communication.

B2
News & The Passive Voice

This ESL lesson plan helps students master grammar, reading, and writing through real-world news report analysis. Learners explore the passive voice, identify its usage in articles, and complete structured exercises. Activities include rewriting sentences, forming correct passive constructions, and crafting their own news reports. Ideal for B2-level teens and adults.

A2
Adventure Story: The Time Machine

This ESL lesson plan engages students in an exciting adventure story about a time machine while improving grammar, writing, and reading skills. Through discussions, brainstorming, reading activities, and past simple exercises, learners practice storytelling. The lesson concludes with a creative writing task where students craft their own time-travel adventure. Perfect for A2-level kids and teens!

B2
Crime Investigation

This ESL lesson plan focuses on past perfect and past simple tenses through crime investigation scenarios. In this one-hour lesson, students will practice describing events using these tenses with reading, grammar exercises, and a creative writing task. The lesson includes analyzing a crime scene story and identifying tense usage. Learners will also connect words into sentences and create their own narratives based on the lesson's context.

A1-A2
Breaking News: Mastering the Present Continuous

This ESL lesson plan helps students master the present continuous through engaging, real-world scenarios. Learners will discuss dramatic news headlines, analyze grammar structures, and complete a gap-fill activity. The lesson builds fluency through an exciting role-play, where students create and present their own breaking news reports. This interactive approach strengthens speaking, listening, and grammar skills in a fun and dynamic way!

A2
Past Simple Time Expressions with Forrest Gump

This lesson plan focuses on improving reading and grammar skills through engaging exercises. Students will read a short text about Forrest Gump, complete sentence gap-fills, match sentence halves, and unscramble words to practice past time expressions. The lesson also includes a writing task where learners use target vocabulary to describe past events.

A2
At the Supermarket: Prepositions of Place

This lesson plan is designed for adults and teens at the A2 level. The 60-minute group session focuses on developing grammar, reading, and speaking skills. Students will engage in partner discussions, read a blog post about a supermarket, and complete exercises that reinforce their understanding of prepositions of place: describing the supermarket layout. Activities include true/false statements, sentence matching, and fill-in-the-blank exercises to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.

A2
The Day Everything Went Wrong

This ESL lesson plan focuses on teaching the past simple tense through the relatable topic of a bad day. Designed for adults and teens, this one-hour session includes warm-up discussions, a gap-fill reading activity, and engaging group tasks to practice grammar and storytelling skills. Students will match phrases, write short stories, and share experiences, building confidence in using the past simple to describe past events.

B1-B2
Before the Test: Mastering the Past Perfect

This ESL lesson plan focuses on teaching the past perfect tense in a fun and interactive 45-minute session for teens in a group setting. The lesson includes a warm-up discussion about test preparation strategies, a dialogue activity with true/false statements, and grammar-focused exercises to practice sentence formation. Students will also improve their speaking and writing grammar skills through engaging pair work and group discussions.

B1
Prepositions of Time in Sports

This ESL lesson plan helps students understand and practice grammar using prepositions of time: for, during, while. Through engaging tasks like speaking activities and writing exercises, students will learn to describe the duration of activities in sports contexts. The lesson includes group discussions, grammar exercises, and sentence construction tasks to reinforce the concepts. This lesson targets the development of both speaking and writing skills, helping students to master these prepositions through talking about sports.

A1-A2
On a School Trip: Practicing the Present Continuous

This ESL lesson plan focuses on grammar and reading, helping students practice the present continuous tense in a group setting. The lesson includes engaging discussions, a short text about a school trip, comprehension exercises, and sentence-building activities. Students will identify Present Continuous verbs, understand their usage, and create their own sentences to reinforce learning. Perfect for A1-A2 learners in a group environment!

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B1
Weather Phenomena

This ESL lesson plan introduces students to fascinating weather phenomena through engaging speaking, reading, and grammar activities. Designed for teens and adults at the B1 level, the 45-minute group lesson explores natural events like the Northern Lights and fire whirls. Students will enhance their grammar skills with articles, analyze descriptive texts, and participate in discussions to share personal insights and preferences about unique weather occurrences.

A2
When Working from Home
Goes Wrong

This ESL lesson plan focuses on exploring the challenges of remote work through speaking, reading and grammar activities as well as group discussions. Designed for A2-level learners, this group mode lesson helps students practice differentiating between Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses. The structured exercises include sorting statements, completing dialogues, and describing scenarios, improving their ability to express habits, routines, and ongoing actions.

B1-B2
Expect the Unexpected

This ESL lesson plan focuses on reading and speaking skills, helping B1/B2 learners summarize and discuss events with surprising twists. Through engaging storytelling, students read short narratives, predict alternate endings, and explore creative "what if" scenarios using the third conditional. Group discussions and written exercises encourage students to express opinions and connect the material to their personal experiences.