Expressing Confusion

This ESL lesson plan focuses on teaching students how to express confusion in everyday situations, targeting vocabulary and speaking skills for B1-level learners. Through engaging activities like sentence reordering, gap-fill exercises, and pair work, students will practice useful expressions and improve their conversational abilities. The lesson is designed to enhance comprehension and clarity in communication, with a focus on handling unclear directions and asking for clarification. Perfect for teens and adults in group settings.

Skills

Can follow clearly articulated speech/sign directed at them in everyday conversation, though will sometimes have to ask for repetition of particular words/signs and phrases.

45 min B1 (Intermediate)Teens Adults Group Audio Speaking Vocabulary

Online Interactive

Based on CEFR

Fully Customizable

Warm-up: Confusing instructions

Read the text and discuss the questions below.

To get to the café, take a left at the big tree, then go straight until you see the yellow house. But don’t go past it! Instead, turn right before the house, and after a while, you'll see a narrow road that splits into two. Take the road that looks less used, but make sure it’s not the one with the fence. After that, just follow the road until you reach a bridge, but don’t cross it, turn left just before it. The café should be nearby.

Would you be able to follow these directions?

Do you often ask for or give directions to get to a place? Are they always clear?

Require students to provide an answer