What Is Doomscrolling and How Do You Stop?
ESL Lesson PlansWhat Is Doomscrolling and How Do You Stop?

What Is Doomscrolling and How Do You Stop?

This ESL lesson plan focuses on the concept of doomscrolling, targeting B1-B2 learners. Through engaging vocabulary, listening, and speaking exercises, students will discuss the impact of negative news and strategies to avoid overconsumption of bad news. The lesson includes a warm-up activity, a video-based listening task, and vocabulary matching, followed by a group discussion on doomscrolling and how to seek more uplifting content. This 60-minute session enhances both conversational fluency and comprehension skills.

Skills

  • Can understand most documentaries and most other recorded or broadcast material delivered in the standard form of the language and can identify mood, attitude, etc.
  • Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction, and sustained relationships with users of the target language, quite possible without imposing strain on either party.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Warm-up: Find someone who..

1. ...checks the news on their phone first thing in the morning. 2. ...spends more than an hour a day reading news on social media. 3. ...has tried to limit their screen time because of negative news. 4. ...feels anxious after reading too much bad news online. 5. ...follows specific news topics that tend to be stressful or upsetting. 6. ...prefers reading positive news stories.
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Vocabulary from the video

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Watch the video and complete the summary below with the missing phrases. What was the most surprising part of the video?

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Let's talk: Doomscrolling, and how to avoid it

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Your question

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