Summary
This downloadable PDF lesson plan for A1-level English students provides essential class material for teaching how to make and cancel appointments. A practical ESL lesson for beginner learners focusing on everyday communication skills.
This comprehensive A1 English lesson guides students through the process of scheduling appointments. Activities include a vocabulary gap-fill, a listening comprehension exercise, a grammar focus on 'can/can't', a reading task about a clinic app, and a guided role-play to practice making a phone call. The material is designed to build practical communication skills and confidence in beginner students, covering both making and changing arrangements.
Activities
- Students begin with a warm-up matching professionals to their workplaces and then learn key vocabulary like 'book,' 'cancel,' and 'change' through a practical gap-fill exercise, setting the foundation for the lesson.
- A listening exercise has students fill in missing words from typical phone conversations about appointments. This is followed by a clear grammar focus on using 'can' and 'can't' for requests and possibility.
- The lesson culminates in a reading comprehension task about a clinic app and a structured role-play activity where students practice making and negotiating appointment times over the phone, applying all the learned language.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson introduces essential vocabulary for managing schedules. Students will learn and practice key terms such as 'appointment,' 'book,' 'cancel,' 'change,' 'day,' and 'time.' These words are reinforced through gap-fill, reading, and speaking activities to ensure comprehension and active use.
Grammar focus
The grammar section concentrates on the modal verbs 'can' and 'can't.' Students learn how to use these to ask for appointments ("Can I book...?"), state possibilities ("You can come at 2 PM"), and express inability ("I'm sorry, I can't make it"), practicing with sentence-building exercises.
