Category Archives: English Lessons

Asking Yes/No Questions and Explanation Questions in English

23 Mar ’25

Yesterday Morning I Fed My Cat

4 Nov ’24

Pronouncing the -ed Endings of Regular Verbs in English

20 Oct ’24

Thinking about the future in English with a lesson plan

5 Feb ’24

Every Morning I Feed My Cat

3 Feb ’23

Two Lesson Plans with Picture Prompts for Writing

28 Jun ’20

… One of the tasks for an English teacher is to get students writing. I have found that putting students into groups to work on one paragraph together prepares them for writing on their own. Here are two lesson plans … Continue reading →

The Rabbit and the Turtle: The First Four Lessons

3 Jun ’20

… The first four lessons of the Rabbit and the Turtle get students creating language, writing sentences with that language, discovering parts of speech from their sentences, and then writing a story with the vocabulary the whole class has generated. … Continue reading →

Who Is Standing Where?

22 May ’20

…… To the teacher: This is a very good activity for a new class on the first day, an Icebreaker. In groups of seven, students will get to know each other as they talk and select roles. Who will be … Continue reading →

Writing in the Present, Past, and Future: The Dog and Its Bone: Intermediate ESL

17 Jan ’20

… Objective: In groups of three, students will write a story. First, by looking at three sequential pictures, they will name the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that they see. Then, they will write the words they’ve discovered on separate … Continue reading →

Thinking about the Future on the Day the Clocks Fall Back, November 3, 2019

3 Nov ’19

… In English we deal with the future by using nine helping verbs called the modals: will, shall, can, could, would, should, may, might and must. Only will will ever happen; all the others are possibilities, the wouldas, couldas, and … Continue reading →

ESL Lesson: Parts of Speech

22 Sep ’19

… Objective: This lesson is for beginner ESL students to understand how English works. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are discussed by the teacher with enough information for the learners to recognize them in the sentences. The main objective … Continue reading →

ESL Lesson: Reading a Short Story: Daydream

20 Sep ’19

… Daydream by Roberta Allen Introduction: This activity is for students with high beginner to low intermediate skills; they are beginning to know enough English to work with others reading, speaking and writing it. Communication has begun. The first activities … Continue reading →