This ESL lesson plan introduces learners to the concept of whataboutism through engaging listening, vocabulary, and conversation activities. Students analyze examples, match terms to definitions, and discuss how whataboutism impacts debates. With a focus on critical thinking and clear communication, learners create constructive dialogues to replace deflective arguments. This lesson fosters discussion skills and rhetorical awareness in a dynamic group setting.
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This ESL lesson plan focuses on culinary inventions while reinforcing grammar skills with the present continuous passive. Through engaging listening and speaking exercises, learners explore recent food industry innovations like 3D food printing and lab-grown meat. The lesson includes a structured warm-up discussion, a video-based listening activity, and interactive grammar matching and sentence unscrambling tasks. This comprehensive approach helps students practice passive voice in a real-world context, enhancing both grammar control and speaking confidence.
This ESL lesson plan immerses upper-intermediate learners in the eerie tales of Pluckley, Kent, known as the most haunted village in England. Through engaging listening activities, students practice understanding detail and identifying key information. The lesson includes speaking exercises for expressing personal views on supernatural phenomena.
This lesson plan engages ESL students in a 60-minute group session focused on using the Present Perfect tense to discuss experiences with blogging and social media. The lesson plan includes vocabulary exercises, reading comprehension, role-play interviews with fictional bloggers, and a writing activity to create a blog post. Ideal for B1 learners, it promotes speaking and writing skills through interactive and practical tasks.
This ESL lesson plan introduces A2 learners to home-related vocabulary in a group format, focusing on speaking and listening skills. Students will explore common furniture and rooms, sort vocabulary into categories, and watch a video tour of a house to answer comprehension questions. The lesson concludes with interactive activities where students describe and guess rooms, enhancing their communication skills in a fun and engaging way.
This engaging ESL lesson plan focuses on ways to react to news in a conversation, designed for adult and teen learners at a B2 level, lasting 45 minutes in a group setting. Targeting speaking skills, the lesson features interactive tasks, including discussions in pairs, audio comprehension, and reacting to various statements. Activities encourage students to practice appropriate responses in unexpected scenarios, enhancing their conversational fluency and confidence.
This ESL lesson plan is designed for B2-level teens and explores the role of sports mascots in engaging fans and building team spirit. In this 60-minute group lesson, students will practice listening skills by watching and discussing a video about Toro, the Houston Texans mascot, and the experiences of mascot performer Andrew Johnson. The lesson encourages critical thinking about the purpose of mascots and concludes with a creative group activity where students design their own classroom mascot.
This ESL lesson plan guides adults through the process of receiving deliveries with a focus on listening and speaking skills. In this 45-minute individual session for A2-B1 learners, students will learn essential vocabulary for package pickups, practice common phrases for receiving deliveries, and engage in a video-based listening activity to reinforce comprehension.
This engaging lesson plan introduces ESL students to various pet types while enhancing their listening and speaking skills. In this 60-minute session, students will brainstorm different pets, discuss the joys and responsibilities of pet ownership, and fill in vocabulary gaps after watching a video. The lesson wraps up with a writing task where students express their opinions about having unusual or traditional pets.
