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ESL Reading Lesson Plans

Our ESL reading lesson plans are crafted to improve key CEFR skills, helping students enhance reading comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary. These lessons engage students with a variety of texts and exercises, ensuring a deep understanding of reading strategies and building confidence in tackling diverse materials.

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A1-A2
An Easter Basket Full of Joy

This fun and engaging 30-minute Easter-themed ESL lesson is designed for young learners and focuses on developing reading, speaking, and vocabulary skills. Children read a simple, colorful dialogue between two characters, Alice and Tom, as they explore what’s inside an Easter basket. The lesson includes matching vocabulary to definitions, sentence half-matching, and open-ended speaking questions to encourage conversation. Perfect for beginner-level kids!

B2
Black Mirror: Stories of Tomorrow

This ESL lesson plan invites B2 level group learners to explore the futuristic and ethical dilemmas presented in the Netflix series Black Mirror. Through listening, reading, and writing tasks, students reflect on the impact of AI, social media, and future technologies on human relationships and identity. The class includes a matching activity, reading comprehension, video-based discussion, and a creative writing task where students script a future episode. This lesson encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and real-world application of language skills in a tech-themed context.

B2
Why Do We Still Have Kings and Queens Today?

This ESL lesson plan explores the role of monarchies today through reading comprehension, discussion, and group activities. Students start with a warm-up quiz, read an informative text about monarchies, and answer multiple-choice questions. Vocabulary matching and critical thinking exercises help learners analyze the advantages and disadvantages of monarchy. The lesson concludes with a group debate, encouraging students to practice speaking and argumentation skills. Perfect for developing reading, vocabulary, and discussion skills in an engaging way!

B2
News & The Passive Voice

This ESL lesson plan helps students master grammar, reading, and writing through real-world news report analysis. Learners explore the passive voice, identify its usage in articles, and complete structured exercises. Activities include rewriting sentences, forming correct passive constructions, and crafting their own news reports. Ideal for B2-level teens and adults.

A2
Adventure Story: The Time Machine

This ESL lesson plan engages students in an exciting adventure story about a time machine while improving grammar, writing, and reading skills. Through discussions, brainstorming, reading activities, and past simple exercises, learners practice storytelling. The lesson concludes with a creative writing task where students craft their own time-travel adventure. Perfect for A2-level kids and teens!

B2
Crime Investigation

This ESL lesson plan focuses on past perfect and past simple tenses through crime investigation scenarios. In this one-hour lesson, students will practice describing events using these tenses with reading, grammar exercises, and a creative writing task. The lesson includes analyzing a crime scene story and identifying tense usage. Learners will also connect words into sentences and create their own narratives based on the lesson's context.

A2
Past Simple Time Expressions with Forrest Gump

This lesson plan focuses on improving reading and grammar skills through engaging exercises. Students will read a short text about Forrest Gump, complete sentence gap-fills, match sentence halves, and unscramble words to practice past time expressions. The lesson also includes a writing task where learners use target vocabulary to describe past events.

A2
At the Supermarket: Prepositions of Place

This lesson plan is designed for adults and teens at the A2 level. The 60-minute group session focuses on developing grammar, reading, and speaking skills. Students will engage in partner discussions, read a blog post about a supermarket, and complete exercises that reinforce their understanding of prepositions of place: describing the supermarket layout. Activities include true/false statements, sentence matching, and fill-in-the-blank exercises to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.

B1-B2
Before the Test: Mastering the Past Perfect

This ESL lesson plan focuses on teaching the past perfect tense in a fun and interactive 45-minute session for teens in a group setting. The lesson includes a warm-up discussion about test preparation strategies, a dialogue activity with true/false statements, and grammar-focused exercises to practice sentence formation. Students will also improve their speaking and writing grammar skills through engaging pair work and group discussions.

A2-B1
Describing Movie and TV Show Characters

This 60-minute lesson plan for adults and teens (A2/B1 level) helps learners build vocabulary, speaking, and reading skills by describing movie and TV show characters. Students analyze texts, answer comprehension questions, and complete matching activities and fill-in-the-blank exercises. The lesson includes interactive speaking practice where learners describe characters. Perfect for individual study.

B1-B2
Social Media Marketing

This ESL lesson plan explores how brands use platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook to promote products and connect with audiences. Targeting B1–B2 learners, the lesson includes listening, reading, writing, and speaking activities that focus on influencer strategies, brand visibility, and viral trends. Students analyze Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Skin campaign, discuss the impact of social media, and collaborate to create their own fictional influencer stories. A perfect mix of vocabulary, real-world input, and critical thinking wrapped into a dynamic 60-minute group lesson.

B1-B2
What is Your Attachment Style?

This ESL lesson plan explores attachment styles in relationships through reading, vocabulary, and speaking activities. Designed for B1-B2 learners, the 60-minute group lesson includes a self-discovery quiz, relatable diary entries, and discussion exercises to help students analyze different relationship dynamics. The lesson concludes with a role-play activity, where students practice giving and receiving advice based on what they’ve learned. This engaging lesson builds emotional intelligence, improves speaking fluency, and expands vocabulary related to relationships.

B1-B2
The Chinese Zodiac

This ESL lesson plan introduces students to the Chinese zodiac through engaging reading, vocabulary, writing, and listening activities. Students will watch a video about the Year of the Snake (2025), discuss zodiac beliefs, and complete a fill-in-the-blank reading exercise on the legendary zodiac race. They will also match words to definitions, test their comprehension with true/false questions, and finish the lesson with a creative writing task where they invent their own zodiac animal story. This lesson builds critical thinking, storytelling skills, and cultural awareness while improving reading and writing fluency.

B1-B2
Gender Equality in the Workplace

This ESL lesson plan on gender equality in the workplace is designed for B1/B2 level learners and focuses on developing vocabulary, reading, and discussion skills. The lesson includes reading activities, a glossary for key terms, gap-fill exercises, and group discussions to explore diverse opinions. Students practice expressing viewpoints, justifying ideas, and understanding factual texts in an engaging and structured format.

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A2
Famous Women in History and Modern Society

This ESL lesson plan is designed for A2-level teens in a group. Students will explore famous women in history and modern society, learning about their professions and achievements. The lesson includes vocabulary matching, reading comprehension, true/false exercises, and discussion activities. By the end, students will expand their knowledge of inspiring women while developing key language skills.