Turn an English-as-a-Second-Language Warm-Up into a Lesson Plan

So you didn't prepare an English-as-a-Second-Language lesson plan today, but you need a good ESL classroom idea that does not require any preparation? You have come to the right article. Simply extend my ESL classroom warm-up into a full ESL lesson plan that is a fun game for you and your ESL students. You can thank me later. Below I outline the ESL lesson plan to extend the ESL classroom warm-up into a full class lesson for both large and small classes. (If you are unfamiliar with the ESL warm-up of which I speak, please see my Associated Content ESL Classroom Warm-up article). As always I encourage you to be creative and brainstorm ways to make this easy ESL lesson plan your own.

Ages: teens to adults. Proficiency Level: Advanced Beginner and up. Class size: Small or large, Purposes: Practice sentence building, vocabulary. Materials: Students need paper and pencil. Preparation: NONE !!

Procedure: Begin class with the ESL Classroom Warm-up; creating the lists of words. Rather than erase the entire list, save 10 words, you can figure you will need at most 1 word for every 5 minutes of ESL classroom time, and use these words for the following easy ESL classroom game. As your ESL students have generated the word list, they should be familiar with all of the words. This is especially helpful for teachers, like me, who only see their students once a week (and your fabulous Korean co-teachers feel no need to inform you of what they are teaching your ESL students during the week).

After your ESL students have generated the word list and you have choosen 10 words for this instant ESL lesson (you will need approximately 1 word for every 5 minutes of ESL classroom time). Divide your ESL students into teams of 1-6 students. Below are the ESL lesson plans for these words.