Lesson Overview

This A2 General English lesson is all about different generations. You and your students will explore vocabulary and phrases to talk about age groups, family members, and how people of different ages live, work, and communicate.

Through engaging exercises, learners will practice describing people, comparing generations, and sharing opinions about similarities and differences between young and older generations. These activities help students build confidence in speaking while connecting English learning to everyday life and social contexts.

Fun discussions, comparison activities, and structured exercises make this lesson a fun way to develop English skills, practise adjectives and age-related vocabulary, and explore how people of all ages experience life.

Activity layout:

1. Warm up.
2. Generations: Explained. 
3. Grammar: Past continuous. 
4. Generations: Technology
5. Timeline. 
6. Case study. 
7. Listening activity. 
8. Speaking activity. 

Homework

As usual, this ESL generations lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students get to practice the grammar more with three exercises. They need to write about their lives using the past continuous tense!

Activity layout: 

1. Timeline: Grammar practice. 
2. Writing practice. 
3. Case study.