ESL Lesson Plan Template – Printable, Stage by Stage

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Presentation, practice, production 3

ESL lesson plan table, minutes by stage A table with the rows named Warm-up, Presentation, Practice, Production and Wrap-up, and columns for Minutes, Teacher and Learners. A Language goal line sits above it and a Homework line below.
ESL lesson plan table, your own stages The same columns with 7 unnamed rows, for a lesson that follows another order: write each stage in the first column.
ESL lesson plan, presentation, practice, production Lines for Class or level, Date and Length, then ruled lines under seven headings: Language goal, Target words and phrases, Warm-up, Presentation, Practice (controlled), Production (free practice), and Wrap-up and homework.

Reading, listening and speaking 2

ESL conversation class plan A Topic line, then a Warm-up question, Useful words and phrases, Discussion questions, a Pair or group task, and Errors to go over at the end.
ESL reading or listening lesson plan For a lesson built on a text or a recording: a Text or recording line, then Before, a first task for the gist, a second task for detail, After, and Language to notice.

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A subject lesson, one learner, a week 3

ESL week by skill A sideways page with Monday to Friday across and five rows: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Grammar and words.
One-to-one ESL tutoring plan For one learner: Learner, Date and Lesson number lines, then the learner's goal, Review from last time, New language, Practice, Speaking task and Homework.
Subject lesson plan with a language objective For teaching a school subject to English learners: Content objective and Language objective headings, Key words, a Supports block for pictures, sentence starters and partner talk, Lesson steps and Check.

Two to a page 1

ESL lesson plans, two to a page A dashed line splits the page into an upper and a lower plan. On each: Class or level, Date, and ruled lines for Language goal, Presentation, Practice and Production.

Filled-in sample 1

Sample: a beginner lesson on there is and there are, filled in Sample. The stage table filled in for a made-up beginner lesson, to show what goes beside each stage. The minutes are one teacher's guess for one class.

How this list was compiled: Written and laid out in-house for this page on October 2, 2026. Every sheet is a plain form to fill in by hand; the headings are everyday planning words, and no school district's, publisher's or program's form is copied. The three stage names presentation, practice and production are the usual ones in English language teaching, read on October 2, 2026 in the Wikipedia articles Bilingual method and Task-based language teaching (CC BY-SA 4.0); only the names are used. The sample lesson is made up. Licence: own work

How it works

This ESL lesson plan template opens on one lesson: lines for Class or level, Date and Length, then ruled blocks for a language goal, target words and phrases, a warm-up, presentation, practice, production, and a wrap-up.

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Plan the three stages

Press Print the lesson plan. Under Language goal, write the one thing learners will be able to say or write. Presentation is where you show the new language, Practice is controlled, and Production is free practice in the learners' own words.

A stage table, skills lessons and tutoring

The stage table has a Minutes column and sets what the teacher does beside what learners do. Other sheets plan a reading or listening lesson, a conversation class, a week by skill and a lesson for one learner.

Teaching math or science to English learners? One sheet has a Content objective, a Language objective and a Supports block.
The table with your own stages has 7 unnamed rows, for a lesson that runs in another order.

Questions and answers

What does an ESL lesson plan include?

This one has a language goal, the target words and phrases, a warm-up, three stages (presentation, practice and production) and a wrap-up with homework. The sample sheet shows a made-up beginner lesson on there is and there are.

What is presentation, practice, production?

It is a common three-stage order for a language lesson: the teacher presents new language, learners practice it in a controlled task, then they produce it more freely. The opening sheet gives each stage three ruled lines.

Is the ESL lesson plan template free?

Yes. Every sheet prints from this page at no cost, on Letter or A4. Apart from the one marked Sample, a sheet comes out empty and is filled in by hand.

Does it work for one-to-one lessons?

Yes. The tutoring plan has Learner and Lesson number lines and blocks for the learner's goal, a review of last time, new language, practice, a speaking task and homework.