Lesson Overview

This ESL lesson plan on gun control will get your advanced students talking! Gun control is a divisive topic that makes for great conversation. In this video and article based lesson - students explore the positives and negatives of gun control.

Students begin by watching a video “Canada Vs. USA: Who Does Gun Control Better?” by AJ+ to highlight the difference in gun control between the countries. Vocabulary is explored by completing questions with the video vocabulary and then discussing them. 

Then, students move on to an article that talks about the disadvantages of gun control. Using these two sources of information - students need to make contrasting statements using conjunctions such as: although, nevertheless, whereas, while, in spite of and despite. Afterwards, students get to choose a side and debate the topic at hand. This ESL lesson plan on gun control finished with a relevant idioms exercise. Activities: 

1. Warm up. 
2. Grammar: showing contrast. 
3. Video analysis. 
4. Article analysis. 
5. The benefits of gun control. 
6. Gun idioms. 

Homework

In the homework section of this ESL lesson plan on gun control, students are presented with an intriguing article before being presented with a vocabulary exercise and questions. They also have to write a paragraph summarising the lesson and using the new vocabulary from the worksheet. Activities: 

1. Article and activities. 
2. Writing task.