Intermediate: Grammar Lesson Plans

Description: Revision of superlatives, reading a travel ad, travel vocabulary, use of Present Simple for future events.

Description: A quick tense review followed by a reading based activity which focuses on reported questions and the tense changes involved. Extra worksheet included for speaking activity at the end.

Description: Some useful crime vocabulary is also taught while teaching the passive voice using the past simple and other tenses. General knowledge quiz and a "Guess The Movie" speaking activity included.

Description: Review of past simple structure. Reading about a girl's dream date followed by focus on the second conditional. Use of second conditional in a "You're The Mayor!" group activity.

Description: This is a lesson centered around an article about somebody's life changing decision. After speaking about him, students then talk about their own life experiences.

Description: After an exercise on time markers, we read about a company manager's plans for the coming month. A review of most of the future tenses in English is then followed by a Predictions speaking activity.

Description: Students read about Tamara's disastrous evening and then do some grammar work on the third conditional. Lesson finishes with a writing chain game.

Description: Some useful work on word families starts off this lesson about adjectives such as bored/boring, interesting/interesting. Students use them in a speaking activity before participating in a grammar auction where the error-strewn sentences must be found.

Description: Talking about personal likes and dislikes to help with the tricky both/neither area of grammar.

Description: Lesson plan which looks at words and expressions often used in conditional-type sentences: unless, in case, etc. Students read these expressions in context in contract excerpts. Finishes with an in case/in the event of game.

Description: How has Teresa's life changed since she won the famous reality TV show? Grammar focus on used to for past habits.

Description: Doug returns his broken laptop computer to the store and finds out there are some things he should and shouldn't have done. Good computer related vocabulary.

Description: The first part of the lesson is an exercise on some more advanced weather vocabulary. Students then read a newspaper article giving some advice dealing with hurricanes. The second half of the lesson focuses on the modal verb usage in the newspaper article and the lesson finishes with a fun "Hurricane Facts" game.

Description: The warmer gets students to rank modes of transport according to speed. The reading text focuses on a Dutch cyclist and uses many comparative and superlative forms. After some grammar focus on these structures, the lesson ends with a grammar auction game.

Description: The lesson begins by asking students what they would do if they found themselves in a variety of difficult circumstances. A short reading introduces the theme of illegal immigration and employment. The grammar focus is on the time shifts of reported speech. The lesson closes with a card-based game to practice reported/direct speech differences.