Speaking, Roleplays, Conversation

• Have You Ever, Would You Ever A simple lesson plan that asks students what they have done, what they would do, what they can do. Good icebreaker or even use part of it as a filler.
• At the Restaurant Discuss going out to eat, learn some vocab and then do some fun roleplays complete with rude customers and useless waiters.
• Questions about Food to get students thinking and talking
• Halloween Go over Halloween vocab, read some scary stories and then do a scary chain story of your own.
• Beauty Inc a fun roleplay about a business with serious problems!
• School Talk about school traditions in the US and in the students' country. Teach some school slang and terminology and then let students be creative and act out their own slang-filled dialogues.
• Corruption A lesson plan that looks at a variety of forms of corruption to get students talking.
• Culture Shock A discussion lesson plan that asks students to discuss what behavior is normal and what is rude in their culture.
• Survive! Students chose which items are most useful to survive.
• Settlements. Students discuss what makes some places better to live in than others and choose an ideal place to live.
• Find your perfect career through a Myers-Brigg type personality test then discuss what is important for a perfect job.
• Interview a star Students act as a famous person and then are interviewed. Very popular and fun lesson! Thanks to EnglishBaby! for reminding me of this great idea.
• Odd Jobs A fun filler game where students have to guess what job their partner has by asking questions. The twist is that all the jobs are unusual, like Trapeze Artist or Voice on Bus Announcements!
• What's Your Alibi? A horrible crime has been committed and students have to come up with an alibi AND repeat it accurately!
• The Expert Game Students talk about their favorite subject: themselves.

Games, Fillers, Fun

• Hangman A great game to teach spelling and reinforce vocabulary
• English Names Give your students English names to help with pronunciation and get them used to strange sounding names. A few tips on how and why.
• Desert Island Discs The old party game where students pick what they want on a desert island
• Have You Ever, Would You Ever A simple lesson plan that asks students what they have done, what they would do, what they can do. Good icebreaker or even use part of it as a filler.
• Quiz on Champions with a little bit for everyone including sports, Guiness World Records and even video games. Here are the Answers
• Odd Jobs A fun filler game where students have to guess what job their partner has by asking questions. The twist is that all the jobs are unusual, like Trapeze Artist or Voice on Bus Announcements!
• What's Your Alibi? A horrible crime has been committed and students have to come up with an alibi AND repeat it accurately!

Writing

• Precision Writing An exercise where students are forced to write out a process completely and accurately. Improves writing skills, logic, and vocabulary.
• Planning an Essay Some notes I wrote for a student preparing for the SAT. Good for tips on how to write a short topical essay for American teachers. Covers some basic forms of essays, common errors, and advice on how to be clear and to the point.
• Errors Exercise A great way for students to learn their most common errors in writing and correct them.

Vocabulary Building

• Machines, Tools, and Inventions Teach the vocabulary of tools and machines, then students come up with their own inventions. Good for all levels from beginner to advanced.
• School Talk about school traditions in the US and in the students' country. Teach some school slang and terminology and then let students be creative and act out their own slang-filled dialogues.
• Halloween Go over Halloween vocab, read some scary stories and then do a scary chain story of your own.
• Parts of the Car, an online exercise which can also be printed out and used in class to teach the names for the parts of a car.
• Living Room floor plan Go shopping to furnish your living room. Then try the Living Room Furniture online exercise, also printable, to test things found in a living room

Grammar

• Giving and Understanding Directions Work with a map to help students understand directions. Then let them test their understanding with an online quiz
• Tom's Diner the song by Suzanne Vega is a perfect way to study Present Continuous verb tense, why we use it and where we don't use it.

Reading

Listening

• Tom's Diner the song by Suzanne Vega is a perfect way to study Present Continuous verb tense, why we use it and where we don't use it.
• ESL Podcast An awesome website by the Center for Educational Development with mini-dialogues and explanations. Great listening resource. Free!