Topic: Games and Role Plays
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Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsConversations we dread
Business GeneralIn this ESL lesson about communication students talk about difficult conversations and share their experiences. They learn vocabulary, watch a video, have a discussion, role play and practise useful expressions.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsGuessing games – B2-C1
GeneralThis worksheet consists of five upper-intermediate and advanced ESL games. Each of the games can be used as a stand-alone task.
Standard Lesson 90 min
Add to saved lessonsI’ve always wanted to have a talent for…
GeneralIn this lesson, students learn some common English collocations with talent and skills and practise some functional language. They also read a text and talk about talents and talent shows.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsWhat makes a good listener?
GeneralIn this lesson students watch a video, talk about being a good communicator and practise their listening skills.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsMy dog ate my homework (Past Simple and Past Continuous)
GrammarIn this lesson, students learn the difference between Past Simple and Past Continuous. They also get the chance to practise using the two tenses in a variety of tasks.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsLiving a digital nomad lifestyle
Business LifestyleIn this lesson students watch a video about being a digital nomad and learn and practise advanced multiword verbs.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsAdvanced vocabulary activities
GeneralThis is a set of ESL vocabulary activities rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the activities can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsThe art of giving feedback
BusinessIn this lesson, students discover a formula to help them give great feedback and learn some useful phrases for giving and receiving feedback in English. They also watch a video about giving feedback and learn vocabulary related to it.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsIs there an ‘a’ in ‘weak’? (spelling games)
GeneralIn this lesson, students learn how to ask for spelling clarification and get a lot of practice through several spelling games.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsI wish I could but I don’t want to
GeneralIn this lesson students watch a video about strategies for saying ‘no’ in English and discover some useful phrases to say ‘no’ politely. They also put them into practice through a role-play.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsThe things that we do when nobody is looking – defining relative clauses
General GrammarWith this lesson plan students learn and practise using defining relative clauses. They also watch a short animated video and talk about the things that people do when they are alone.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsCan you figure it out? ESL vocabulary puzzles
BusinessThis is a set of ESL vocabulary puzzles rather than a typical ESL Brains lesson plan. Each of the puzzles can be used separately as a time filler, a warm-up, etc.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWho am I? – guessing game
GrammarIn this lesson students play an A2 guessing game which creates a lot of opportunities to practise forming yes or no questions in the present and in the past and have some fun while doing it.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsI’m afraid that’s outside the scope of this meeting
BusinessIn this lesson, students reflect on ways to make a business meeting more productive and practise some useful phrases for business meetings. They also act out typical workplace situations.
Standard Lesson 75 min
Add to saved lessonsBetter. Faster. Stronger (comparative and superlative adjectives)
Grammar TechnologyIn this lesson based on a video about technology then and now, students learn and practise comparative and superlative adjectives while discussing how their favourite gadgets have changed over time.
Standard Lesson 90 min
Add to saved lessonsEveryone has it, but no one can lose it: indefinite pronouns
GrammarWith this lesson plan students learn how to use indefinite pronouns and get the opportunity to put them into practice through a series of written and oral exercises.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Add to saved lessonsAre emojis making us dumber?
GeneralIn this lesson about emojis students not only learn words to describe some common features of nonverbal communication, but they also watch a video and reflect on the role of emojis in digital communication.
Standard Lesson 45 min
Add to saved lessonsWhen bad means good
GeneralIn this lesson students discover different meanings as well as expressions with good and bad. They also get an opportunity to put them into practice while reacting to some real-life situations.
