This topic is suitable for beginner level English language students. A lesson based on daily routines provides an excellent opportunity for students to practice using the present simple tense with sentences such as, "I get up early in the morning and brush my teeth." Daily routines are easy for students to relate to and hence they are able to produce meaningful sentences about themselves. There is also a wealth of useful common vocabulary related to this topic, including words and phrases such as "wake up," "stairs," "go downstairs," "eat breakfast," "catch the bus," "get off the bus" and "sleep." These lessons are also an opportunity to introduce and practice adverbs of frequency such as "always," "often" and "sometimes."
This topic is suitable for elementary and lower intermediate level English language students. It provides useful practice of numbers and prices as well as common phrases such as, "May I have.." "Could I have.." "How much is.." This topic can also be used to teach vocabulary relating to shops such as clothes or food.
This topic is suitable for lower intermediate and higher level English language students. Lessons focusing on experiences and the past can give students extended practice with different tenses and structures such as the past, "I lived in the country," the present perfect continuous, "I have been swimming with sharks" and structures using "used to" such as, "I used to visit my grandmother every week." Incorporating the students' personal experiences into the lesson encourages and motivates them to produce language about themselves.
This topic is suitable for lower intermediate and higher level English language students. A lesson focusing on this topic can give students practice in using common conditional clauses such as the second conditional, "If I were rich, I would buy a house on an island," and the first conditional, "I'll learn English really quickly when I move to Canada." It is also an opportunity to practice using vocabulary such as "wish" and "hope."
This topic is suitable for lower intermediate and higher level students. It is an opportunity to introduce and practice a variety of future tenses and structures such as "will" and "going to." Lessons focusing on the differences between current and future life give you the opportunity to introduce a wide variety of vocabulary relating to transportation, society and work life.