Grammar and vocabulary
A vast selection of winning grammar and vocabulary lesson shares including general lesson plans, games, songs and even yoga!
Grammar winning lessons
Grammar: 2010 World Cup
Michelle Worgan gives us a dose of World Cup fever with her winning Lesson Share entry that practises the first conditional.
Grammar: A team game
This is a vocabulary and language functions revision exercise.
Grammar: A very bad day
Lucia Walliams wins the Lesson Share competition with a fun lesson on the third conditional.
Grammar: Active listening
Gabrielle Jones wins the competition with lesson that practises using question tags and asking follow-up questions.
Grammar: An experiment with verse
Simon Mumford wins again with a lesson that uses the medium of poetry to teach verb + gerund / infinitive.
Grammar: Bargaining
To present common verb and noun collocations related to household activities. To present and provide speaking practice in using the first conditional for bargaining and negotiating. Includes a card game.
Grammar: Broken hearts and fish out of water: Practising time clauses
A reading, speaking and writing activity designed to present and practice time clauses.
Grammar: Can you do it?
Lindsay Clandfield's winning lesson practises the modal verb can (ability) using a game of questions.
Grammar: Can't you be more positive?
This is primarily a fluency-based lesson to develop students’ phrase-building skills with language chunks based on the keyword ‘can’t’.
Grammar: Card game for countables and uncountables
Developing skills relating to, asking for and giving information about quantities, degrees of quantities, speaking about containers and places where things are put.
Grammar: Card game for irregular verbs
Pupils practise irregular verbs with games, using short sentences and / or single words in English.
Grammar: Celebrity wedding planner
Jodi Hope catches Royal Wedding fever with a love-themed winning lesson that practises modal verbs.
Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns
To develop countable and uncountable nouns along with the structures: there is / there aren't / there should be. The roleplay focuses on shopping and the language needed for complaining.
Grammar: Embedded question drill
To provide learners with an opportunity to practise the word order of embedded questions.
Grammar: Figure it out!
Practise using modals of deduction.
Grammar: Glastonbury Festival
Becky Sparks wins the May 2007 Festivals Lesson Share Competition with a lesson about Glastonbury - Britain's most famous annual music festival.
Grammar: How to prepare it
Practise imperatives; learn useful vocabulary; use sequence connectors; learn how to write a recipe.
Grammar: Language metaphors
Simon Mumford delivers a brain-twisting winning lesson that uses metaphors to help students learn grammatical structures.
Grammar: Let me talk about my life
A lesson plan to give students written and oral practice of using the present perfect to talk about experiences.
Grammar: Magazine interview role-play
Practising 'used to' with an interview roleplay. Since the topic is mainly about the differences between men and women it can also be used for comparatives.
Grammar: Making instant decisions
Introduce 'will' or 'won't' for instant decisions; provide fluency practice using 'will' or 'won't'.
Grammar: 'Meet the Parents'
To practise and contrast the past simple and present perfect and give students listening practice of these structures in context. Promotes the use of video as a useful classroom tool. Includes a great warmer 'lie-detector test'.
Grammar: Meeting word partnerships
To Introduce students to collocations with the word ‘meeting’ and to practice using them.
Grammar: Memories of the past
Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with a unique way to help students remember irregular past tense forms.
Grammar: Money - just imagine!
For the introduction and practice of first and second conditionals, including oral practice.
Grammar: Murder mystery
Simon Mumford’s sinister winning lesson serves up a healthy dose of intrigue in order to revise the past tenses.
Grammar: My alibi
To practise past continuous interrupted by another action or by a specific time, in a business setting.
Grammar: Name that city: The cost of living
To practice making comparisons.
Grammar: Narrative tenses
Rachael Nobbs encourages students to invent their own tales with her winning Lesson Share entry that practises the past tenses and features a mysterious urban myth …
Grammar: On the cards
Activities to practise using the past form of irregular verbs.
Grammar: Past tense card game
A simple game designed to help with reviewing past tense questions and answers - (adaptable to other grammatical forms).
Grammar: Past tense practice with hilarity
A fun way to learn and practise new verbs in the past tense.
Grammar: Pawn shop
Maria Sándor’s winning lesson incorporates a role-play that practises both negotiation skills and the present simple vs present continuous.
Grammar: Personality assessment task
To improve vocabulary when describing character, especially when dealing with literature (most of the time students use good, bad, happy, nice).
Grammar: Personality traits
To consolidate understanding of adjectives to describe people's qualities.
Grammar: Phrasal verbs
A phrasal verb board game.
Grammar: Phrasal verbs card games
Practising phrasal verbs.
Grammar: Present continuous with PowerPoint
Teaching English in computer classes or using multimedia. Introducing the present continuous tense.
Grammar: Present perfect continuous game
Students use the present perfect continuous in a game based on jobs.
Grammar: Professions
To revise vocabulary and general knowledge in relation to professions. To reinforce speaking activities and working together. To revise the simple present tense in context.
Grammar: Pub quiz
A quiz game for present and past simple question forms (writing and speaking).
Grammar: Reporting verbs
To get students practising and using reporting verbs.
Grammar: Rock band role-play
Students work on a press release about a rock band, practising use of the present perfect.
Grammar: Should I stay or should I go?
Teaching 'should' using a song.
Grammar: Smart crackle cakes
To practise the passive form by converting imperative instructions to passive descriptions, followed by free practice of the passive.
Grammar: Tag teams
To practise making tag questions by guessing information about other students.
Grammar: Teacher trumps
To practice boasting, comparisons / superlatives.
Grammar: The accident
Mandeep Locham wins the Lesson Share competition for a second time with a lesson that uses the subject of workplace accidents as a basis to revise the past tenses.
Grammar: The adverb game
To practise adverbs.
Grammar: The future's bright
Gráine Lavin wins the Lesson Share competition with this fun lesson about making predictions for students to practise using will for the future.
Grammar: The no-go game
Practising past tense sentences.
Grammar: The past and future forms of 'be able to'
Provide students with the tools to explain reasons for absence clearly and politely.
Grammar: The sentence machine
To strengthen the students' knowledge of grammatical rules when forming and combining sentences in English. To revise verb tenses.
Grammar: The shape of English grammar
Simon Mumford wins the competition again with a very visual lesson that uses diagrams to revise grammar constructions.
Grammar: The Titanic
Emily Ballard’s historic lesson provides a unique way to practise forming sentences in the third conditional.
Grammar: Travel disasters
Phrasal verbs relating to travel are the focus in Nicholas Whitley's entertaining upper intermediate lesson that also includes some fun illustrations.
Grammar: Travel disasters: Lesson plan
Author: Nicholas Whitley Level: Upper intermediate Type: General lesson plan
Phrasal verbs relating to travel are the focus in Nicholas Whitley's entertaining upper intermediate lesson that also includes some fun illustrations.
Grammar: Using proverbs
A lesson to teach proverbs and use them to remind students of, and clarify, language rules which may cause them difficulties.
Grammar: Vocabulary (extreme adjectives)
Vocabulary development, stress and intonation practice.
Grammar: What's been changed?
This is an integrated skills activity with an emphasis on speaking practice using the present perfect simple passive (vs. active) in a very active, functional and fun way.
Grammar: Wishes and regrets
Practise expressing wishes and regrets, reading for specific information, dialogue building, fluency.
Grammar: Yoga in the classroom
An original take on teaching imperatives. This active drama lesson provides a great opportunity for bodily-kinaesthetic learners in the classroom.
Grammar: You must not!
Practice in using negative obligations, 'You must not...'
