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ESL Lesson Plan Are Humans Naturally Selfish?
- Level
- C1-C2
- Time
- 90 min
- Media
- Video + Article
Lesson Overview
This C1 ESL lesson explores the thought-provoking topic “Are Humans Naturally Selfish?”, encouraging students to examine selfishness, self-interest, altruism, self-love, and our responsibilities towards other people.
Learners explore philosophical ideas about human nature and discuss whether people are genuinely capable of selfless behaviour. They…
This C1 ESL lesson explores the thought-provoking topic “Are Humans Naturally Selfish?”, encouraging students to examine selfishness, self-interest, altruism, self-love, and our responsibilities towards other people.
Learners explore philosophical ideas about human nature and discuss whether people are genuinely capable of selfless behaviour. They learn and practise advanced vocabulary such as self-interest, moral duty, selfless, self-preservation, selfish streak, altruism, self-love, and self-absorbed, while considering the difference between healthy self-interest and selfish behaviour.
This lesson is ideal for C1 learners who want to develop their ability to express nuanced opinions, justify arguments, discuss abstract ideas, and explore complex ethical and philosophical questions.
Activity Layout
- Selfish or Reasonable?
- Video: Key Words
- Video: Comprehension
- Video: Who Said It?
- Video: Quotes
- Selfishness: What Would You Do?
- Selfishness: Ranking
- Selfishness: Debate
- Selfishness: Discussion
Homework
As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is a homework task to supplement this C1 C2 ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of exercises which follows on from the lesson.
- Article: Five Signs Someone Is Selfish
- Reading Comprehension: Questions
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