Grammar Curriculum

ESL Lounge Premium has been online since 2005. We have never tried to impose any idea of "curriculum" onto our teachers, preferring to leave it to their experience and judgement as to when each lesson plan should be taught to a class. Beyond a very generic division by language level (Elementary, Pre-Intermediate), etc, we believe our teachers are best placed to make those decisions.

What we have done below, however, is to provide a list of lesson plans based on the grammar areas covered. The list of lesson plans below does not include most of the non-grammar lessons: reading, speaking, vocabulary lessons, etc. Using the lesson plan codes (e.g. 2G4) that you can find next to each lesson plan, you can see which areas of grammar are touched upon by each lesson.

Remember this is NOT an exhaustive list of the lesson plans on the Premium site: there are many lesson plans that have no direct grammar focus and are therefore not included here.

Lesson Plan Key

Example: 2G4

The first number refers to the level (1 - elementary, 2 - pre-intermediate, 3 - intermediate, 4 - advanced, B - business, YL - young learner).

The letter refers to the lesson plan type (G - grammar, L - listening, R - reading, S - speaking, RP - role play, V - vocabulary, T - topic)

So 2G4 will be found on the pre-intermediate Grammar page of lesson plans.

We have also color-coded the lesson plan numbers in the table below to make finding different levels easier:

Young Learners
Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced
Business

Grammar Coverage

To Be	YL1, YL2, B1W1
Present Simple	YL4, YL5, YL6, YL9, 1G1, 1G9, 1L1, 1L3, 1L5, 1L11, 1R3, 1R5, 1W4, B1G2
Questions	YL11, 1G1, 1G6, 1G9, 1L1, 1L3, 1L5, 1L11, 1R3, 1S2, 1T1, 3G2, 3L7, B1W1
Past Simple	1G2, 1G7, 1L6, 1S1, 1T1, 1V3, 2G13 (US), 2L5, B1G3
Present Continuous	YL7, YL8, YL10, 1G6, 2G6
Superlatives	1G3, 3G1
Adjectives	YL7, 1G3, 1G4, 1V2, 1V5, 2R3, 2V1, 2V4, 3G8, 3R2, 3V9, 4W2
Collocation	1V4, 1V5, 1V6
Comparatives	1G4, 2V2, B1G1
Conditionals	1G5, 2G9, 3G4, 3G7, 3G10, 3R3, 3T3, 4G4, 4G7, B3G1
Wish	4R3
Imperative	1G8, 2L11
Nouns	1G10, 3V8
Pronunciation	1G7, 1G10, 1S1, 2L4
Reported Speech	B2G2
Adverbs	YL9, 1L2, 2L7, B1G4
Word Order / Sentence structure	1L2, 1W3, 2V1, 3R6, 4G5, 4R5
Quantifiers	1L4, 2L2
Future Constructions	1L7, 2G6, 2S2, 3G1, 3G6, 4G3
There is/are	YL2, 1R2, 1S2, 2S3
Conjunctions	1W2, 2G11, 3G9
Modal verbs	YL3, 1T2, 2G1, 2G7, 2G8, 2L1, 2RP2, 3G12, 3G13, 3L9, 4G1, 4G6, 4R6, B2G3, B2G4, B3G1
Present perfect	2G2, 2G3, 2G4, 2G5, 2G13 (UK), 2L3, 2R1, 3G5, 3L1, 3L8
Passive	2G10, 2G12, 3G3, 3R4, B2G1
Punctuation	2W1
Used to	3G11, 3R5
Question tags	3L5
Prepositions	YL3, YL5, 3W1, 3R6
Causative	4G2