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What are infinitives? 

When teaching infinitives it is especially important to know what they are. Infinitives are the base form of verbs. Infinitives are often formed by placing the word “to” and then following it with a verb. For example, “to buy/to work/to shop”. Keep in mind that a bare infinitive does not have the word “to” preceding it. Sometimes English speakers use infinitives as objects in sentences. Infinitives can also be used as a subject at the beginning of some sentences; they can be used as adverbs to modify verbs as well. Finally, they can be used as adjectives and/or complements to adjectives. As the lesson progresses, you will introduce the different uses of infinitives to students. Though teaching infinitives seems difficult, this lesson makes it fun and clear.

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Teaching Infinitives: A Free Introductory ESL Lesson Plan

Is your student referring to one object, person, or thing, or multiple objects, people, or things? 

This lesson on singular and plural regular nouns helps identify quantity — whether someone is referring to one or many. The lesson suits beginner-level students and can be taught to children, teenagers and adults. 

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Singular And Plural Regular Nouns – Free ESL Lesson Plan

As an ESL teacher, idioms are one of my favorite things to teach. In order to truly understand a language, we have to understand more than just basic grammar conjugations -  we have to know slang, jokes, idioms, and the many other things that make a language unique. If you're looking for something fun and dynamic for your next ESL class, have a look at our lesson plan Idioms Describing Food and Eating!

An idiom is a unique saying or phrase made up of words that, when combined, take on a whole new meaning than the individual words within the phrase. Idioms are common and students hear them every day, but they might not understand what they mean. They are tricky but important to teach to new English learners, especially as their listening and speaking skills improve.

Idioms Describing Food and Eating focuses on common idioms we use to describe people, such as “eat like a bird” and “dig in”. Students love food, and they’ll love this lesson on idioms describing food and eating.

This lesson plan is perfect for teens or adults. Use it in your next online or traditional, screen-enabled ESL class! Students love learning idioms and after this lesson, your students are guaranteed to feel more fluent than ever! 

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Idioms Describing Food and Eating - ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

Our new ESL Lesson Plan teaches about the use of two important pronouns—anybody and nobody. A robust lesson plan with clear descriptions, examples, and practice opportunities, this engaging lesson will help your students understand the use of these pronouns. The lesson is designed for Level B1 (pre-intermediate).

Our ESL lesson library also includes lessons on nouns and articles that will help prepare students for this material. We recommend lessons on “Some & Any” and “There is & There Are.”

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Anybody Nobody - Free ESL Lesson Plan

When to use this lesson on the present perfect simple tense?

Teaching the present simple tense is one of the first things that ESL teachers should aim to do. Chances are, your beginner students are already a little bit familiar with this tense or at least some phrases using the present simple. If not, don’t worry because after this lesson, your students will have the tools to start forming simple sentences on their own.

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How To Teach The Present Perfect Simple Tense - ESL Lesson Plan

Are you looking for a fun ready-to-teach lesson plan for your ESL classroom? Check out The Story of Google! This challenging lesson plan focuses on reading comprehension skills for English language learners. Students will learn new vocabulary while learning about the origins of Google. The History of Google is a teacher favorite - you can use it with business students, adults, and kids! I mean, who isn't fascinated by Google?

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Reading - The Story of Google - ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

Speaking - Working Remotely and Online is a ready-to-teach lesson plan that is designed to promote fluency and get your students speaking! Designed for upper-intermediate students, this lesson plan is definitely relevant to our world today! It features new vocabulary and reading exercises that put that vocabulary in context. Get students discussing and debating using the pictures, questions, and vocabulary provided! This lesson plan leaves some room for creativity so make sure you add your own special touch - ask thoughtful follow-up questions to really test their skills.

This practical, easy-to-use lesson plan is ready for your next online or in-person class. 

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Speaking - Working Remotely and Online - An ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

A preposition is a word that connects a noun phrase with another part of a sentence; it is usually said or written before a noun. This free ESL lesson plan covers how to use prepositions of movement and direction. Where are they going? Where are they coming from? Download this lesson to help elementary-level students grasp the usage of to, toward, from, and away from.

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Teaching Prepositions Of Movement — Free ESL Lesson Plan

Are you looking for a fun, vocabulary-rich, teacher-led lesson plan for your ESL classroom? Check out the first lesson plan of our five-part series Adjectives Opposites! In this lesson, students will learn opposite pairs of adjectives with plenty of opportunities to practice. 

Lesson 1 introduces basic adjectives by using opposites. It focuses on simple, common words like big/small, light/dark, young/old, and many others.

This lesson is perfect for in-person or online classes. Teens and adults will love them!

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Adjectives: Opposites (Lesson 1 ) - ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

This lesson introduces your students to the positive and negative forms of the verb. By the end of the class, your students will be forming simple sentences independently. Don’t forget to congratulate your students when they complete their first full sentence in English! It’s a big deal and they should feel accomplished. With your encouragement, they will be excited to learn more and will sign up for more classes with their favorite English teacher— you!

Like all Off2Class lesson plans, this lesson is ready to teach, so prep work is not required! It is suitable for teens or adult students and can be used in online and traditional classrooms.

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Teaching The Verb “be” To ESL Students

When should “Should We Ban It?” be used?

“Should We Ban It?” is a speaking lesson plan download aimed at adult and adolescent students with upper-intermediate proficiency levels and above. It is perfect for both individuals and groups, helping promote fluency in speaking and sparking healthy discussions about individual and societal value changes over time. Keep in mind that the content of this lesson is controversial—we advise you to review the entire lesson before teaching. This lesson is inappropriate for young learners.

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Should We Ban It? — A Free Speaking ESL Lesson Plan

When to teach this lesson plan on books and reading



The purpose of this lesson is to introduce vocabulary around books and reading. Students will learn about technical vocabulary and use this to answer questions and analyze text. You should use this lesson with students at the intermediate level. Specifically, you should use this lesson with students who are looking to improve their speaking skills. Ultimately you will provide students with controlled and free tasks to promote fluency in speaking. 



Before you teach, keep in mind…



For our speaking lessons aimed at Intermediate proficiency level and above, there is no reading activity section in the middle of the lesson. When dealing with speaking topics at higher levels of proficiency, we advise you to familiarize yourself with your students’ cultural background along with the lesson content, to ensure that lesson material is not offensive or inappropriate.



What does this lesson plan on books and reading include?

This lesson includes many activities that help to elicit vocabulary. So it includes several questions and discussion prompts as well as images. This lesson is for advanced students so the questions should be used as conversation starters. These questions will help you to learn more about your student and his/her/their lives and opinions. In addition, this lesson includes quotes for students to describe and analyze. Though this lesson plan on books and reading is only 15 slides it contains ample opportunities for students to learn about authors, writers, characters and genres. 



How to teach this lesson

This lesson includes lots of questions that encourage students to respond to questions. So, throughout the lesson be sure to explain the purpose of these inquiries as some students may not understand them entirely. Also, when introducing vocabulary words, you should provide examples to create context and further clarity. For example, when you introduce what a character is, ensure that you can give an example of a character that the student is familiar with. I know that the Disney characters are well known by ESL students of all ages and levels.



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An Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan On Books And Reading

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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