Lesson Overview

We are positive that your intermediate ESL students will enjoy this lesson plan! Students start with a fun timeline exercise to determine which technological gadgets were invented first. Then, they practice free talk by answering some questions. Next in the ESL Technology lesson plan, intermediate students get to learn new vocabulary with a sentence completion and discussion exercise.

Thereafter, learners watch an interesting video about technology and jobs: Will it take jobs or create jobs? Next in this ESL Technology lesson plan, they need to answer comprehension questions and then discuss some points together as a class. Later, students learn the theory related to the grammar point of “used to” and then apply it with various exercises. Furthermore, they get to practice it with an innovative speaking exercise related to technology.

This ESL Technology lesson ends with an article that covers future predictions for technology where students have to complete multiple speaking tasks.

Activity layout:

1. Warm up.
2. New words.
3. Video: Listening activity. 
4. Grammar: Used to. 
5. Speaking practice. 
6. Technology article. 
7. Would you rather?
8. Debate 

Homework

As usual, this ESL Technology lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students get to practice the grammar more with a fun writing task. Then, students need to make future predictions about technology!

Activity layout:

1. Grammar practice. 
2. Future predictions.