Lesson Overview

We are positive that your intermediate ESL students will enjoy this ESL decision making lesson plan! Students start with a fun warm up game which involves making a decision about different paintings. 

Afterwards, there is an engaging vocabulary exercise which concludes with a series of questions. Next, the video is broken down into 3 sections. Each section analyses the video in detail, there are vocabulary, reading and discussion tasks at each stage. 

Next, students are going to study the modal verbs of certainty in depth. They will begin by studying a detailed explanation of the grammar before doing a sentence completion exercise and another engaging task. The seventh and final task introduces common decision making expressions before offering an amazing activity which allows students to use their newly acquired language in a natural, fun way.

Activity Layout: 

1. Warm up.
2. New Words.
3. Video: Tip 1
4. Video: Tip 2
5. Video: Tip 3
6. Grammar
7. Expressions. 
8. Quotes. 
9. Would you rather? 

Homework

In this superb ESL decision making lesson plan homework task, students are tasked with studying quotes related to decisions. Then, there is an excellent video about FOBO where students are given a series of questions to answer, making it a perfect writing task. 

Activity layout

1. Quotes 
2. Video analysis.