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This ESL lesson plan explores the evolution and impact of Facebook, designed for B2-level adults in a 60-minute group session focusing on speaking and reading skills. Students will analyze Facebook's history, role in society, and its challenges like misinformation and hate speech through engaging discussions and text-based exercises. Activities emphasize vocabulary building, critical thinking, and real-world applications of language skills in discussing technology and social media.

Skills

  • Can scan quickly through texts, locating relevant details.
  • Can account for and sustain his/her opinions in discussion by providing relevant explanations, arguments, and comments.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Discuss in pairs.

1
Do you use Facebook? If so, how often and what for? If not, why?
2
Which social media platform do you use the most and why?
3
What do you think about the impact of social networks on how people interact with each other?
2

Read the text about Facebook.

3

Based on the text, guess the meanings of the following words.

4

Look at this list of facts about Facebook - all the facts contain false information. Correct these facts to make them accurate according to the text.

5

Fill in the gaps with these words.

6

Brainstorm ideas about the role of social media platforms.

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