Are you a city slicker or do you prefer living in the suburbs? A2 beginner students will absolutely love this lesson as it gives them many opportunities to speak, read and practice grammar.
Lesson Overview
This ESL lesson plan on city life is jam packed with tasks which cover all bases from vocabulary, to reading to speaking. Students begin by learning new vocabulary related to cities. Then, they have to use the words in a sentence before answering questions.
Next, there is another vocabulary game, accompanied by a dialogue and questions. The grammar point of conjunctions is discussed in the fifth task which stimulates an excellent debate. The sixth task is a reading which is presented in the form of an interesting article, along with true or false questions.
Students get to bring all their new words and phrases together as they answer a series of discussion questions. Last but not least, there is an awesome listening and writing activity to finish the lesson in style. You won’t be disappointed with this ESL lesson plan on city life!
Activity layout:
- Warm up.
- City places: vocabulary.
- City life: vocabulary.
- Grammar: Conjunctions.
- Reading: Advantages of city living.
- Reading activities.
- Discussion questions.
- Listening and writing.
Homework
As with every ESL adult lesson plan, students get to practice at home with our innovative homework activities. They are presented with an excellent article before being asked to write a series of answers to our thought-provoking questions.
Activity layout:
- Reading: Disadvantages of city living.
- Writing task.
