Elementary-level EFL - ESL lesson plans | A2
A collection of ESL lesson plans and resources for teaching elementary-level students. All of the activity and game ideas that we include can be used in low-resource classrooms and require little to no preparation time. Each lesson contains a warm-up activity with board work, several classroom activities and a game.
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LESSON 1 | Functional language
Question words
This ESL lesson plan gives students a chance to practise all of the common question structures.
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LESSON 2 | Grammar
Countable and uncountable nouns
In this elementary-level lesson plan, students will expand on their food-related vocabulary while deepening their knowledge of countable and uncountable nouns.
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LESSON 3 | Functional language
Expressing quantities
This ESL lesson plan covers some of the more common quantifiers used to express large and small quantities.
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LESSON 4 | Grammar
Using the present simple
An ESL lesson plan that focuses on the functional uses of the present simple.
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LESSON 5 | Grammar
Using the present continuous
A collection of teaching resources that can be used to deepen a student's understanding of the present continuous.
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LESSON 6 | Grammar
Relative pronouns
This ESL lesson plan contains activities and games that will help elementary level students familiarise themselves with relative pronouns and their function in the English language.
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LESSON 7 | Grammar
Personal pronouns
Students learn to work with personal pronouns in this elementary-level ESL lesson plan.
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LESSON 8 | Grammar
Comparatives and superlatives
This elementary-level lesson plan focuses on the correct use of comparative and superlative adjectives.
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LESSON 11 | Grammar
Talking about the future
An elementary-level lesson plan that teaches students how to express the future using 'going to + Infinitive' and 'will'.
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LESSON 12 | Grammar
The present perfect
In this ESL lesson plan, students will learn the grammar and function of the present perfect tense.
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LESSON 13 | Grammar
The present perfect: Since and for
This ESL lesson plan builds on the previous lesson's material and teaches students how to use 'since' and 'for' with the present perfect.
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LESSON 14 | Grammar
The present perfect: Just, yet and already
For this lesson, students will learn how to use the present perfect with the time modifiers 'just', 'yet' and 'already'.
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LESSON 15 | Grammar
Obligation, prohibition and advice
This ESL lesson plan contains activities and games that teach elementary-level students how to express obligation, prohibition and advice.
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LESSON 16 | Grammar
Expressing possibility: May and might
An ESL lesson plan that teaches elementary level students how to express possibility using 'may' and 'might'.
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LESSON 17 | Grammar
Necessity
Students learn how to express necessity through these engaging ESL activities and games.
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LESSON 18 | Grammar
Verb patterns
In this grammar lesson plan, students learn how to use some common verb patterns.
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