Future Tense: Will vs Going To – ESL Lesson Plan
An ESL/ELA grammar lesson plan set teaching the difference between 'will' and 'going to' for expressing future events.
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An ESL/ELA grammar lesson plan set teaching the difference between 'will' and 'going to' for expressing future events.
Students complete Civil War-themed crossword puzzles, word searches, and coloring pages, and fill in a battle-study organizer (battle name, dates, commanders, location, significance) for one or more Civil War battles.
ESL/EFL lesson plan teaching vocabulary and grammar related to leisure activities for A2 pre-intermediate learners, including a reading passage on types of leisure activities (team sports, solo activities, group activities, board games) and dialogue-based exercises
Students open a linked Google Slides deck (not contained in this PDF) and read, type, and drag answers into interactive slides covering transportation and travel scenarios and vocabulary; teachers mark responses using the answer key and rubric in this PDF.
Working in teams (and individually for some rounds), students answer pictorial questions across several themed rounds (e.g., a memory test identifying objects that briefly appear, an unscramble round identifying cut-up images, a cryptic-clue guessing round), competing for points on a built-in scoreboard for up to…
A GCSE PE lesson presentation teaching the definitions of health and fitness, the 10 components of fitness, and how lifestyle and sport relate to each.
Guide a movie-study lesson on the 2020 film Enola Holmes, building comprehension, analysis, and creative-writing skills tied to the film's themes of identity, independence, and social change.
Play a domino-matching game (80 dominoes) where each tile edge shows a chemical formula, molecule/compound description, or definition that must be matched to its equivalent on another tile; also review prior-knowledge content on atoms, elements, compounds, and chemical formula rules.
Short ESL-oriented post-reading novel study worksheet for "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, prompting students to record basic book facts, complete two fill-in lists, and write a character-perspective diary.
A dominoes-format review game for middle/high-school students on lenses, the eye, the pinhole camera, and the camera, using domino tiles printed with questions and statements instead of numbers.
review DNA and DNA replication vocabulary (e.g. nucleotide, helicase, replication fork, Okazaki fragments) through a BINGO-style game
Respond to summary and analysis questions on content, language, and structure; define and discuss the literary device 'adage' and identify examples; answer stanza-by-stanza language-device and interpretation questions (e.g. identifying similes/imagery, discussing tone of jealousy/envy, summarizing each stanza's idea) referencing…
Students solve 20 literal-equation/formula-rearrangement problems (e.g., solve P=2a+2b for a; solve E=mc^2 for m), using either the digital pixel-art version or the printable task cards.
Lesson 11 of a Tempest unit: a guided essay-writing/revision lesson exploring the theme of power across the play, scene by scene, to prepare students for an analytical essay.
GCSE PE Anatomy & Physiology lesson teaching the cardiac cycle, route of blood flow through the heart, and how blood flow relates to cardiac output and stroke volume.
Play a dominoes-style matching game: draw tiles, match refraction/reflection terms, diagrams and definitions edge-to-edge, and challenge incorrect matches, following printed how-to-play instructions.
Teaches high school students about investing, asset classes, diversification, and retirement growth strategies, including a hands-on investing simulation.
Working in teams (and individually for some rounds), students answer pictorial questions across several themed rounds (e.g., a memory test identifying objects that briefly appear, an unscramble round identifying cut-up images, a cryptic-clue guessing round), competing for points on a built-in scoreboard for up to…
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Knitting as a hobby, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Students research an assigned topic (China's communist revolution, Korean War, or Vietnam War), fill in a who/what/where/when/why chart and short-answer questions on a skeleton outline handout, then teach their topic to classmates with different assignments and build a 7-event timeline.
Students work in teams to answer pictorial and multiple-choice quiz questions across several round formats (light knowledge, lightning round, cryptic clues, memory test, unscramble, bonus round) to score points on a built-in scoreboard.
Get assigned a U.S. state to represent as Senator, review a scoring spreadsheet showing point gains/losses for that state on each of 8 bills, negotiate and make deals with classmates before voting, vote on all 8 bills as a class, and tally final scores to see who achieves a positive score ('gets re-elected')…
Play a chain-matching dominoes game, matching a term or statement (e.g. 'the symbol for helium', 'the Latin name for sodium', 'molecule of a compound') to its correct answer tile (e.g. 'He', 'Natrium') around the domino chain.
A literary-terms vocabulary lesson package teaching 10 terms related to Sound Devices through a slide presentation, guided notes, a creative-writing application task, and multiple assessment options.