Rainforest Adventure
ESL Lesson PlansRainforest Adventure

Rainforest Adventure

This lesson plan engages ESL students with rich vocabulary and reading comprehension about the rainforest. Through interactive activities and discussion questions, students will practice using new words in context and reflect on the importance of environmental conservation in an enjoyable way.

Skills

  • Can understand descriptions of places, events, explicitly expressed feelings and perspectives in narratives, guides and magazine articles that employ high frequency everyday language.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Do you know anything about rainforests? In pairs, participate in the quiz and learn some information.

1
Where are rainforests mostly found?
2
What is the climate like in the rainforests?
3
How often does it rain in rainforests?
4
What are the most important plants in the rainforest?
5
Which of these animals lives in a rainforest?
2

You're going to read an article about a group of young explorers, who recently went on an exciting expedition. Before you start, learn the vocabulary. Match the definitions below.

3

Read the newspaper article. What promise did the explorers make?

4

Based on the text, mark sentences as true/false.

5

Work with the vocabulary from the article and use it to complete the gaps in the sentences.

6

Work with your partner. Discuss the questions below.

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