A list of all previous ESL Lesson Plans of the Week:
SUMMER 2024
- Getting to Know You: Simple present and "be" verb
- Healthy Habits: Simple present and frequency adverbs
- Summer Vacation: Simple future using "will" and "be going to"
- Summer Weather: Present progressive tense
- Summer Activities: Modal verbs of ability and gerunds
- Summer Fashion: Modals of advice and necessity
- Giving Directions and Instructions: Prepositions of place and time, imperatives
- Childhood: Simple past tense and "be" verb
SPRING 2024
- Introductions: Simple present and "be" verb
- Daily Routine: Simple present and "do" verb
- Winter Weather: Present progressive
- Emotions and Sensations: Present progressive cont.
- Family and Friendships: Possessive adjectives
- Winter Activities: Modals of ability "can" and "could"
- Calendar and Time: Simple past and "be" verb
- Childhood: Simple past and "do" verb
- The Human Body: Modals of advice and modals of necessity and obligation
- Seasons and Weather: Simple future
- Spring Activities: Prepositions of time and place
- Spring Clothes: Comparatives and superlatives
- Food and Measurements: Count and noncount nouns
- Travel and Geography: Present perfect tense
- Accomplishments: Present perfect tense cont.
- Celebrations: Review of the entire spring semester
FALL 2023
- Making New Friends: 'Be' verb and simple present
- Fall Weather: Frequency adverbs and simple present
- Fall Activities: Modals of ability
- Fall Clothing: Present progressive
- Driving and Transportation: Prepositions of place and time
- Life and Work Goals: Simple future using "will"
- Household Chores and Responsibilities: Future using "be going to" and present progressive for future
- Road and Home Safety: Modals of advice and necessity
- Childhood: Simple past and "be"
- Travel Experiences: Simple past and irregular and regular verbs
- Food Flavors: Comparatives and superlatives
- Holidays and Celebrations: Session review
SUMMER 2023
- Greetings! / Welcome!: Wh-question words and polite questions
- Summer Weather and Safety: Frequency adverbs
- Summer Vacation: Present progressive to express future time, future time clauses
- Locations and Directions: Prepositions of place and vehicles, reported speech
- US Culture and Stereotypes: Positive and negative comparatives, superlatives
- Fashion and Style: Possessive adjectives and possessive nouns, subject and object pronouns
- Healthy Habits: The first conditional and the present perfect tense
- Job Preparation: Past tense and present perfect
- Back-to-School: Mixed tense review (present, past, present perfect, and future)
- Foods Around the World: Present progressives and gerunds
- Music and Culture: "But", equal comparisons
SPRING 2023
- Let's Catch Up!: Simple past tense review
- Facts and Opinions: Comparatives and superlatives
- Health and Sickness: Expressing obligation with modals "must" and "have to"
- Advice and Problem-Solving: Making suggestions using modals "could," "should," "would," and "had better"
- Friendships and Relationships: Defining non-relative clauses
- Food and Service Industry: Using subject and reflexive pronouns
- Travel Experiences: Present perfect tense
- Chores and Responsibilities: Present perfect tense
- Work and the Workplace: Using "someone," "anyone," and "everyone"
- Money and Banking: Subject and object questions, count/noncount nouns
- Urban and Rural: Prefixes and suffixes, comparatives and superlatives review
- Feelings and Emotions: Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed, state verbs vs action verbs
- Social Media: Using “about”, expressing opinions, review on opinions adjectives
- Spring Weather: Expressing the future using "will" and "be + going to"
- Spring Activities: Expressing possibility using "might" and "might not"
- Sports and Fitness: Spring semester tense review (present progressive, simple future, present perfect)
- Accomplishments and Celebrations: Spring semester tense review (mixed tenses, simple present, simple past, present perfect, and simple future)