Timeless Wisdom from The Little Prince
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Timeless Wisdom from The Little Prince

This engaging 45-minute ESL lesson for teens and kids (A2–B1) uses The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to build vocabulary, reading comprehension, and speaking confidence. Students read and discuss meaningful quotes from the book, fill in vocabulary gaps, and explore key themes like friendship, love, and life lessons through guided reading and interactive questions. The lesson also includes a matching activity to reinforce understanding and a short writing task to help learners summarize the prince's adventures.

Skills

  • Can understand the main points of short texts dealing with everyday topics.
  • Can summarise in writing the main points of a text.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read these quotes. Do you know where they are from? Choose one that you like the most. Explain what it means and why you like it.

to tame - to make someone or something less wild and more controlled, and to create a feeling of connection with it.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Your answer:
2

Read some facts about a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Fill in the gaps in them based on what you know about the book.

3

Read a text about the book.

4

Pick the right answer!

5

Match the halves to form sentences about the book.

6

Time to Write!

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