These awesome ideas will come in handy for your ESL lessons.
1. My Routine
- Students explain in groups their daily routines, practicing, the simple present and adverbs of frequency, and then write journals on the topic.
2. Grammar Story
- Students construct the story of a fictitious person, using pictures from magazines and practice present, past, and future tenses to write about his or her life.
3. Headlines
- To practice the passive voice, model and have students write headlines from their class: e.g., “The teacher’s purse was stolen”, “the students were taught passive voice.”
4. If I were a Rich Man
- Teach the song from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” Then Students discuss and write about what they would do if they were rich, practicing the unreal conditional.
5. Controversial Issues
- Introduce some issues like Capital Punishment. Students Choose their teams, and issues, research, read, write, and debate on their issues.
6. Plans and Predictions
- Have Students discuss the future, using different tenses, for what they plan for (to be going to) and predict (will).
7. Twenty Questions
- Play the Game: one student thinks of someone/something to be, and others try to guess what or who it is, using twenty yes/no questions: e.g., “Are you a person?”
