Breaking the Barriers
ESL Lesson PlansBreaking the Barriers

Breaking the Barriers

This lesson plan engages B1-level ESL students in overcoming challenges and pursuing new goals. Through interactive activities, students will discuss personal experiences, watch a motivating video, and complete vocabulary exercises. The lesson emphasizes expressing opinions and giving explanations using new vocabulary in a real-world context.

Skills

  • Can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions, plans, and actions.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Watch the video and answer the questions.

1
What was the speaker's experience on their first day at the gym?
2
What did the speaker lack when they first started going to the gym?
3
What advice does the speaker give to beginners who are just starting to go to the gym?
2

Match the words with their definitions based on the context in which they are used in the video transcript below.

3

Look at the script of the video.

4

Fill in the gaps in the dialogue.

5

Let's talk!

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