Unbound Souls
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Unbound Souls

This ESL lesson plan engages B2-level learners in animated discussions about the benefits and drawbacks of taking a gap year. Through thought-provoking questions, vocabulary-building exercises, and informal debates, students will practice expressing their opinions, using idiomatic expressions, and supporting their viewpoints with real-life examples. The lesson plan also includes storytelling and comprehension tasks to deepen language skills.

Skills

  • Students can keep up with an animated discussion, identifying accurately arguments supporting and opposing points of view.
  • Students can understand slang, idiomatic expressions and jokes in private correspondence.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Look at the pictures. What do all these people have in common? What brought them there? Choose one picture and come up with a short story about this person.

2

Discuss the following questions in pairs.

3

Read the email. How does the author feel about their decision to take a gap year? How would you describe the author's personality based on the email? What is the tone and register of the text?

4

Match the following words from the text to their definitions.

5

You are hanging out with your friends and suddenly a new topic pops up. You start talking about taking a gap year later in life and there are two opposite opinions:

6

Speaking: Informal Discussion

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