Bridging Cultural Gaps
ESL Lesson PlansBridging Cultural Gaps

Bridging Cultural Gaps

This ESL lesson plan helps B1-level adults and teens explore cultural differences in a 60-minute group session, focusing on speaking skills. Through images, stories, and discussions, students learn to identify and explain unique customs while reflecting on their own cultural practices. Activities include vocabulary building, analyzing real-life scenarios, and exchanging perspectives to enhance cross-cultural understanding and communication.

Skills

  • Can discuss in simple terms the way in which things that may look “strange” to them in another sociocultural context may well be “normal” for the other people concerned.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Look at the images and explain the cultural practice you notice.

Try to guess which country it might be from. Do people do it in your country?
2

Discussion questions.

3

Match the following words with their definitions.

4

Read the stories of 3 people about their cultural experiences.

5

Answer the following questions.

6

Fill in the gaps in the conversations with the suitable words from Exercise 3.

7

In pairs or small groups, identify customs or habits unique to your country and explain them to someone unfamiliar with them.

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