Chatting on WhatsApp: Everyday Conversations
ESL Lesson PlansChatting on WhatsApp: Everyday Conversations

Chatting on WhatsApp: Everyday Conversations

This ESL lesson plan engages teens in exploring common texting phrases and conversation starters through reading and writing exercises centered on WhatsApp chats. Tailored for A1-level learners, it guides students in composing messages through individual activities, including creative scenarios like imagining conversations about meeting a celebrity.

Skills

  • Can write a short, very simple message (e.g. a text message) to friends to give them a piece of information or to ask them a question.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Discuss the following questions.

1
Do you use WhatsApp to talk to your friends?
2
What do you usually talk about?
3
Have you ever met a celebrity?
2

Let's match corresponding lines of conversations from WhatsApp.

3

Emma and Grace are chatting on WhatsApp. Fill in the gaps in their conversation with the same questions from the previous exercise.

4

Write a text message to a friend.

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