Burnout Prevention Strategies
ESL Lesson PlansBurnout Prevention Strategies

Burnout Prevention Strategies

This engaging ESL lesson plan targets adult learners at the B2 level, focusing on reading, writing, and speaking skills through the important topic of burnout prevention. Students will explore symptoms of burnout, read practical prevention tips, and participate in discussions to share their thoughts. The lesson structure includes matching exercises, vocabulary activities, and a creative writing task, providing a comprehensive approach to understanding and mitigating burnout in everyday life.

Skills

  • Can recognize significant points in straightforward news articles on familiar subjects.
  • Can produce straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within their field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Look at the symptoms of burnout and match them to the explanations. Have you felt like that before?

2

Burnout prevention tips

3

Share your thoughts

4

Use the words to rewrite the sentences below.

5

Choose one of the topics below to write a social media post.

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