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Digital Footprint

This lesson plan helps B1/B2 ESL students explore the concept of online privacy and its implications. Through engaging group discussions, vocabulary-building exercises, and reading activities, learners analyze a news article about managing their digital footprint. The lesson plan targets skills such as identifying key points in texts and expressing abstract ideas, while fostering critical thinking about balancing privacy and professional online presence.

Skills

  • Can recognise significant points in straightforward news articles on familiar subjects.
  • Can express their thoughts about abstract topics.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm-up

In groups, brainstorm different ways you use the internet in daily life and share your list with the class.
2

Let's discuss:

3

Skim the article from Reader's Digest.

4

Match the words from the article with their definitions.

5

Mark the statements about the article as True or False.

6

Fill in the gaps in these short conversations.

7

Let's talk!

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