ESL Lesson PlansWhat is Imposter Syndrome?

What is Imposter Syndrome?

This ESL lesson plan explores the topic of imposter syndrome, targeting advanced (C1) learners. Through engaging vocabulary, listening, and speaking exercises, students will discuss feelings of self-doubt and strategies to combat them. The 60-minute session includes a warm-up discussion, a video-based listening activity, and vocabulary matching, followed by a group conversation on overcoming imposter syndrome. This lesson helps learners improve fluency, build confidence, and expand their vocabulary related to self-awareness and mental health.

Skills

Can express themselves fluently and spontaneously, almost effortlessly. Has a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions.
Uses less common vocabulary idiomatically and appropriately.

60 min C1 (Advanced)Adults Group Video Social Media Jobs Listening Speaking Vocabulary

Online Interactive

Based on CEFR

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Warm-up: Have you felt like this before?

Look at the quotes below. Have you ever felt anything similar? Do you think this feeling is common?

“I don’t know whether every author feels it, but I think quite a lot do — that I am pretending to be something I am not, because, even nowadays, I do not quite feel as though I am an author.”

- Agatha Christie

"No matter what we've done, there comes a point where you think, 'How did I get here? When are they going to discover that I am, in fact, a fraud and take everything away from me?'”

- Tom Hanks

“I still have a little imposter syndrome… It doesn’t go away, that feeling that you shouldn’t take me that seriously. What do I know? I share that with you because we all have doubts in our abilities, about our power and what that power is.”

- Michelle Obama

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