First English Lesson for Advanced Level
ESL Lesson PlansFirst English Lesson for Advanced Level

First English Lesson for Advanced Level

This ESL lesson plan for advanced learners focuses on speaking practice, ice-breakers, and setting learning goals. The structured 60-minute lesson includes interactive exercises, such as the “Find Someone Who…” activity, where students discover interesting facts with classmates while building conversational skills. Learners then explore the complexities of English through a reading task, followed by personal goal-setting, using targeted sentence frames to articulate individual challenges and ambitions in English. This engaging lesson plan is ideal for group settings, offering a blend of communicative tasks and reflective discussions to foster a comfortable, productive classroom environment.

Skills

  • Can understand in detail a wide range of lengthy, complex texts likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life, identifying finer points of detail including attitudes and implied as well as stated opinions.
  • Can give clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Find someone who

Walk around and interview your new classmates using the prompts and follow-up questions below. Share the most unexpected or surprising facts you have learned with the whole group.
1. Find someone who has tried a unique cuisine that most people haven't. (Ask what it was and how they felt about it.) 2. Find someone who has completed a challenging physical activity or sport, like a marathon or mountain climbing. (Ask them to describe the experience.) 3. Find someone who has lived in a country other than their birthplace for more than a year. (Ask what was most surprising about living there.) 4. Find someone who has learned a new skill in the past year. (Ask what the skill was and how they learned it.) 5. Find someone who speaks three or more languages fluently. (Ask which languages they speak and how they learned them.) 6. Find someone who has seen a live performance (concert, theater, dance) in the past month. (Ask what the performance was and their favorite part.) 7. Find someone who has read a book in a language that isn't their first. (Ask about the book and why they chose to read it.) 8. Find someone who has met a famous person. (Ask who it was and how the experience was for them.) 9. Find someone who has tried a creative hobby, like painting, pottery, or playing an instrument. (Ask about their hobby and what they enjoy most about it.) 10. Find someone who prefers listening to podcasts instead of watching TV. (Ask which podcasts they recommend and why.) 11. Find someone who can recommend a book that changed their perspective on life. (Ask them what the book was and why it had an impact.) 12. Find someone who has done volunteer work or a project to help others in the last year. (Ask what they did and why it was meaningful to them.)
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Why is English hard to learn?

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My English learning goals

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