ESL Lesson PlansDivided Realities: Exploring 'Severance'

Divided Realities: Exploring 'Severance'

This ESL lesson plan focuses on the TV show Severance, inviting C1 students to critically discuss the concept of separating work and personal memories. Through Speaking, Listening, and Writing tasks, learners explore ethical dilemmas, corporate control, and personal autonomy. The lesson includes group discussions, trailer comprehension exercises, text analysis, and a structured debate. To conclude, students complete a formal writing task as homework, composing a letter advocating for or against the legalization of severance technology, reinforcing vocabulary use and argumentative writing skills.

Skills

Can follow extended discourse even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly.
Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on complex subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.
Can produce clear, detailed, well-structured and developed descriptions and imaginative texts in an assured, personal, natural style appropriate to the reader in mind.