Lesson Overview

This B2 ESL lesson explores the topic “Should Private Schools Be Banned?”, helping students develop the vocabulary and language needed to discuss educational inequality, equal opportunities, school funding, and the advantages and disadvantages of private education.

Learners practise key vocabulary such as tuition fees, state-funded, privilege, social inequality, equal opportunities, and stretched budgets. They analyse arguments for and against private education, distinguish between facts, opinions and assumptions, and listen to Alice describe her experience at private school and explain why she believes private schools should remain open.

This lesson is ideal for B2 learners who want to develop their ability to express opinions, construct persuasive arguments, consider opposing viewpoints, and discuss education, social inequality, and public spending in greater depth.

1. Warm Up: Ranking
2. Education and Equality: Key Words
3. Fact, Opinion, Assumption
4. Article: Should Private Schools Be Banned?
5. Audio: Alice’s Private School
6. Key Language and Debate
7. Education Budget
8. Education Questions: “If…”
9. Education: Case Studies

Homework

Students read an article exploring the problems associated with private schools and answer detailed comprehension questions about educational inequality, social divisions, and the relationship between family income and educational opportunities.

1. Private Schools: The Problems
2. Reading Comprehension: Question