This lesson is based on the communicative approach, you will encounter lead in topics to discuss, followed by a free kahoot to engage them, then pre listening tasks and listening tasks about this celebration. It is targeted to ESL or EFL students.

St. Patrick's Day (A2 to C1 levels)

This presentations includes some useful words to help students describe food.
 
 
Each slide includes a little description of when we usually use said adjectives.
 
 
Better suited for intermediate students.

Food Adjectives Vocabulary


This is a very basic conversation-starter activity that's designed to deal with students who say "My hobby is listen to music" and then go "huh!?" when you ask them what genre they like.


It was designed to work as a taster lesson at an Open Campus, but can be expanded to a full lesson or used as a warm-up or revision exercise. The handouts and lesson plan have been uploaded as separate documents.


Slide 2: Overview of lesson aims


Slide 3: Students are paired up, set volunteer to work with student if there is an odd one out. Students introduce themselves to each other. Short call and response activities to lower affective filter and make students more comfortable.


Slide 4: Ask whole class: “Do you like music?” and have a show of hands. Show class simplistic conversation (get volunteer to demonstrate) and showcase awkward silence.


Slide 5: Explain to class that they need to say what kind of music they like in English.


Slide 6: Pass out handouts. Make sure students Students only look at the side with genres. Class practice saying what genres of music they like.


Slide 7: Explain the difference between artist and singer.


Slide 8: Class practice saying what artists they are fans of, use the description on the screen.


Slide 9: Brief explanation of what a song is and what an album is.


Slide 10: Have class turn over their handouts. Tell them that they’re going to put everything they’ve learned today together. Remind them that this is a conversation class, so they need to talk to each other.


Slide 11: Provide an example of your own really quick. Volunteers should go around the class and make sure students are talking to each other.


Slide 12: Show the variation of the last slide. Elicit volunteers to share their answer to the question Do you like music? Give students chocolate for volunteering answers.


Slide 13: Thank students for coming! Tell them to enjoy the rest of the Open Campus event.

"Music I Love!" Talking about genres, bands and songs (3/3 POWERPOINT SLIDES)

The game provides a range of vocabulary and expressions to help students pass the test and comprehend the questions and how to solve them, including real audios and questions. 

Re-Tell lecture with audio

This presentation includes the questions of spelling name and last name as well as the alphabet pronunciation and some examples.
It also has a slide with personal information questions to review basic communication.

Alphabet, spelling and personal info questions

This presentation includes random images, the students must link them together to create different stories.

 
The images are random and don't have a clear relation between them, I would recommend this for intermediate or advanced students.

 
You can add aditional rules such as create a story in past tense or present continous etc.

 
I made it thinking of using it in 3 classes, 10 pictures per day, but you can make them use more or less according to your needs and the level of your students.

Let's create a story - Creative speaking practice

The game will provide huge amount of questions and answers to the real test of Versant, which is quite difficult, it comes with answers and audios to make the experience a bit better and more effective.

Versant Short question

Students learn job vocabulary, match words with  translation make phraese, sentences with them. Students tell about their future jobs. Ask and answer the questions.

Dream job Vocabulary, discussion, do test, write jobs to the phrases

A little practice exercise for younger learners who are practicing food vocab or present simple sentences.
The second slide serves as an example of the kind of answer they should give, the rest of the slides don't have answers.

Food vocab and present simple practice

These slides can be used as flashcards to walk students throug vocabulary of twelve food items. There is also a slide that allows you to link the text with the image for each piece of vocabulary.

Food Vocabulary Flashcard Slides

To comprehend the Reflexive Pronouns the student might also follow some steps, which are going to be important to formulate a clear idea and sequence of the facts. 

Reflexive Pronouns rules


This is a very basic activity that's designed to give Japanese students more specific adjectives to describe food. It has a secondary goal of teaching students to be more aware of spelling in English. It was designed to work as a taster lesson at an Open Campus, but can be expanded to a full lesson or used as a warm-up or revision exercise. The lesson plan and handouts have been uploaded as separate documents.


Slide 2: Overview of lesson aims.


Slide 3: Students are paired up, set volunteer to work with student if there is an odd one out. Students introduce themselves to each other. Short call and response activities to lower affective filter and make students more comfortable.


Slide 3: Class ask their partner “What’s your favourite food?”. Teachers monitor and observe, help with pronunciation. This gets prior knowledge about food in English to the front of student’s heads.


Slide 4: Class work in pairs. Give the handouts out (one per each pair of students). Tell the students that they are going to write a list of food on the right-hand side of the sheet. The class have 90 seconds to complete their lists. Teachers monitor and observe, help with spelling, make sure students write in English and stay on the right-hand column.


Slide 5: Briefly go over what adjectives are (形容詞/ けいようし) and ask class to share any adjectives they know that describe food, write them on the board.  Have the class pass their sheets to another pair. Give the class roughly 90 seconds to write an adjective next to each food in the adjective column on the left of the handout.  Some students might not know any food adjectives, this is fine. There is a list of common food adjectives on the back that they can use. Emphasise that there is no wrong answer, you are focused on grammar rather than logical meaning. Give the class 90 seconds or so to add in some adjectives.


Slide 6: Ask for some volunteers to give the foods on their list, make sure they include the adjective and the food. 


Slide 7: Describe the concept of the “Word Kitchen” to the class. That customers want food with the same letters as their name.


Slide 8: Show class the picture of Cait, the first customer and write “CAIT” on the whiteboard. Ask the class to volunteer something from their list of food for Cait to eat. When class suggest something, write it on the board, cross out any letters in “Cait” that are also in that food’s name. For example, if a student suggests “Sweet Cake” then you cross out “C”, “a” and “t”. Keep asking for volunteers until all the letters have been crossed out.


Slide 9: Repeat with Reggie if you have time. I would recommend doing this to reinforce to the students how the activity works.


Slide 10: Repeat with Stephen if you have time. I would only recommend doing this if the majority of the student’s still don’t understand how 


Slide 11: Hand out the sheets of paper for students to write on. The students will write a name, and their partner will have to suggest a food (with an adjective) for them to eat. They’re following the same rules as the previous activities and need to cross out letters that appear in both words. Once they complete they swap partners. Encourage class to count up the letters they match and these are their points.


Slide 12: Check how many points everyone has. The person with the most points gets some chocolate!


Slide 13: Thank students for coming! Tell them to enjoy the rest of the Open Campus event.

"Word Kitchen" - Adjectives for describing food (1/3 PRESENTATION SLIDES)

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Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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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)

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

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

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