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Good or Bad?
This is one of my free ESL lesson plans, that is based on an article published in THE WEEK, which discusses different things that are good or bad for us. In 2011, scientists made some new, interesting discoveries about the world around us, and published their findings on items like placebos, tangerines, sleeplessness, milk, olive oil, green tea and shopping.
Discover why your pillow is bad for you. Find out why having a desk job is not always the best option, what the benefits of swearing are, and why washing dishes can be bad for your wellbeing. Do you know if the milk in your cereal is benefiting you, or whether eating bacon with your eggs is a good idea? Should you be taking vitamin supplements to improve your health? What are the long term effects of sleeplessness? Find out what the scientific studies have revealed on all these, and more.
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Level
This, one of my free ESL lesson plans, is appropriate for upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level English (B1 to C2).
Language Focus
This lesson starts off with discussion around what the students eat, and a lifestyle that they maintain in order to remain fit and healthy. They then need to predict what the article will say about various items and foods (tangerines, pillows, washing dishes, swearing etc) There are then some vocabulary exercises where the students have to match definitions and collocations of words that will appear in the text.
After reading the article and discussing the conclusions, the students learn some food idioms.
My free lesson plans can be used as the basis for English conversation classes or vocabulary lessons in group classes or for one on one lessons. My free printable worksheets come in pdf format with both teacher’s and students’ notes. Just print them off and you are ready for your next lesson!
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English is a piece of cake
Google NGram Viewer
Business English is a piece of cake
What would you do if you had five million books digitized? Would you make all that information accessible to everyone? Would you share it? Would you use it for research? This is a question that Google faced a few years ago, when they decided to do exactly that....digitize five million books.
And their answer was the NGram Viewer.
This lesson is based on a video from TED. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how the NGram Viewer works ..... how to extrapolate information, browse cultural trends, how to assess history, culture, bias and propoganda through the data, and they show us fun things that you can do with 500 billion words.
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Level
This English listening lesson can be used for upper intermediate, advanced and proficiency level Business English (B1 to C2).
Language Focus
In this lesson your students will get to practice their listening, comprehension, vocabulary and and graph reading skills.
The lesson starts with a warmer, where the students have to come up with some creative ideas as to how they would use five million digitized books. Once they have exhausted all their ideas, they will learn some vocabulary that they will come across in the video clip. After that, they get to watch the video and answer some questions, in order to improve their listening and comprehension.
For homework they get to have fun playing around with the NGram Viewer, so that at the following lesson they can present some of their ideas and graphs that they created. The students have to describe their graphs to each other, so they get to practice presenting information given in a graph, as well as listen and draw graphs themselves. While doing this they will get to learn vocabulary specific to graphs.
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