Intermediate level EFL - ESL lesson plans | B1
Welcome to our collection of intermediate level ESL lesson plans and resources. 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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If you find the free materials useful and want complete access to all of our teaching resources, you should consider becoming a member. Also, if you have an Android or iOS device, check out the TEFL Handbook app. We have designed it for use in the classroom, and it gives teachers offline access to all of our lesson plans.
LESSON 1 | Grammar
Prepositions of time
An ESL lesson plan that teaches intermediate level students how to form time expressions using the prepositions 'at', 'on' and 'in'.
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LESSON 2 | Grammar
Frequency adverbs
This ESL lesson plan gives students a chance to review and practise intermediate-level constructions using frequency adverbs.
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LESSON 3 | Grammar
Present simple and present continuous
In this intermediate level lesson plan, students work on writing and role-play activities that improve their functional awareness of the present simple and continuous tenses.
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LESSON 4 | Grammar
Stative verbs
ESL activities, games and resources that will help intermediate students to identify and work with stative verbs.
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LESSON 5 | Grammar
Phrasal verbs
This intermediate-level ESL lesson plan introduces some common phrasal verb constructions.
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LESSON 6 | Grammar
Verb patterns
A collection of teaching resources that can be used to deepen a student's understanding of the common verb patterns.
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LESSON 7 | Grammar
Comparative and superlative adjectives
This ESL lesson plan revises comparative and superlative adjectives while introducing some of the more complicated constructions seen at the intermediate level.
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LESSON 8 | Grammar
Not as __ as
A collection of fun and creative ESL resources that review comparisons of equality and inequality.
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LESSON 11 | Grammar
Obligation prohibition and advice
ESL activities, games and resources for revising expressions of obligation, prohibition and advice with intermediate level students.
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LESSON 12 | Grammar
The present perfect and past simple
An ESL lesson plan that compares and contrasts the functional uses of the present perfect and simple tenses.
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LESSON 13 | Grammar
Using just, yet and already
In this ESL lesson plan, students practise using the present perfect with different time modifiers.
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LESSON 14 | Grammar
Used to
In this grammar lesson plan, students learn how to use 'used to' to talk about their past routines and activities.
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LESSON 15 | Functional language
Talking about the future
This intermediate-level ESL lesson plan focuses on the grammar and function of the different future tenses.
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LESSON 16 | Grammar
The zero, first and second conditional
Students learn how to form different kinds of conditional statements through the engaging ESL activities and games in this lesson plan.
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LESSON 17 | Grammar
Relative clauses
An ESL lesson plan that focuses on the functional uses and difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses.
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