Lesson Overview

This lesson takes on an interesting topic: Consumerism. Students get to learn about a very important grammar point - too vs enough. This ESL Consumerism lesson plan contains many fun and thought-provoking exercises to keep your intermediate students engaged!

Students start with a fun warm up exercise talking about spending habits. Then, they learn new vocabulary related to money with an engaging exercise. Next, in this ESL Consumerism lesson plan - students learn about the grammar point: too vs enough. They need to complete multiple exercises to practice! 

Thereafter, learners read an interesting short article about consumerism and complete two comprehensive tasks. This is followed by a speaking activity about the video. The video portrays The Rat Race and how people get trapped by consumerism. This ESL Consumerism lesson ends with an activity about idioms, and a debate. 

Activities: 

1. Warm up. 
2. Vocabulary. 
3. Grammar: Too, Enough. 
4. Article: Consumerism. 
5. Video: Speaking activity.
6. Money Idioms. 
7. Debate.

Homework

As usual, this ESL Consumerism lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students get to practice the grammar more with two exercises. Then, students practice their writing skills with questions.

Activities:

1. Enough: Nouns vs adjectives. 
2. Too vs enough: opposites. 
3. Writing exercises.