Beyond the Classroom: Remote Learning Days
ESL Lesson PlansBeyond the Classroom: Remote Learning Days

Beyond the Classroom: Remote Learning Days

This lesson plan helps ESL students develop reading and debate skills. Through engaging activities, students will explore the benefits and challenges of remote learning, scan texts for details, and articulate arguments using structured discussion prompts. The lesson plan includes vocabulary exercises, text analysis, and a debate segment to enhance critical thinking and communication.

Skills

  • Students can scan quickly through long and complex texts, locating relevant details.
  • Students can develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting their points of view at some length with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read these quotes. Which quote can you agree with? Why?

The future of education is digital. We live in an increasingly digital world, and education must adapt to that.
- Lenny Schad
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organization, and participation in a meaningful society.
- Noam Chomsky
Technology can become the 'wings' that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before - if we will allow it.
- Jenny Arledge
Your answer:
2

Read and discuss the questions with your class.

3

Look at the text below. Put the paragraphs in the correct order. Then scan the text and find 3 benefits of remote learning.

4

What other benefits can you think of? Work with your partner to look through the list of advantages and complete the sentences.

5

With your partner look through the list of disadvantages and rank them from the most significant to the least significant. Be ready to prove your point of view.

6

Read the dialogue and use it as a model for your debate.

7

Get ready for a debate! One team will argue in favor of remote days, while the other will argue against them. Each of your points should be supported by a fact, reason, or example. The following phrases will help you introduce your arguments: