Exploring Your True Self
ESL Lesson PlansExploring Your True Self

Exploring Your True Self

This ESL lesson plan focuses on speaking and writing skills for adult and teen learners at the A2+ level. Over 60 minutes, students will engage in individual exercises that encourage them to describe their zodiac signs and personal traits using simple phrases and connectors like "and," "but," and "because." The lesson includes tasks such as filling in gaps with vocabulary, constructing sentences about zodiac characteristics, and writing a social media post or email that reflects their true selves.

Skills

  • Students can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors like ‘and,’ ‘but’ and ‘because’.
  • Students can describe everyday aspects of his/her environment (e.g. people, places, a job or study experience) in speech and writing.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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What is "Sagittarius"? What do you think this lesson is going to be about? What do you know about this topic?

I'm a Sagittarius, which means I'm blindly optimistic, incredibly impatient, and I say exactly what's on my mind.
- Taylor Swift
I'm a Sagittarius, which means I'm always looking for the next adventure.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
Your answer:
2

Match the words with their definitions.

3

Do you know your zodiac sign? There are twelve signs for different times of the year. Here is some information about each of them. Fill in the gaps in the text with the following words.

4

Make sentences from these words.

5

Imagine that you asked 5 people of different Zodiac signs, "How was your day?". Read their replies and guess who said each sentence. Explain why, use the words from the previous exercise.

6

Choose the task that you like the most and write 5-7 sentences about it. Use at least four target vocabulary words from the lesson.

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