What is a Lesson Flow?
Lesson Flow is a sequence of lessons, designed to take your student on a particular learning journey. A flow contains 15-20 lessons covering the four skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and functional language. The additional follow-up lesson suggestions offer extra opportunities for reading and speaking practice, as well as targeted grammar exercises related to the topic. Lesson Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. They serve as guidelines that you can and should customize by adding or removing lessons based on your students’ needs.
What’s inside the B1/B2 Lesson Flow for Teens?
This Lesson Flow includes 18 engaging lessons with follow-ups to help your teenage students communicate confidently and enjoy learning English. Please bear in mind that these lessons were originally designed for adult learners, though we believe the topics are appropriate for teens as well. Additionally, please note that two of the lessons (I’ve been doing it for a week and I love it! and Would you like to be a meme?) feature videos containing beeped-out swear words. Before you use the lessons in this flow with your students, we advise you to check their content to make sure it’s appropriate for your particular group of teenage learners.
Developing language skills
With this B1/B2 Lesson Flow for Teens, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about their dreams, preferences, feelings, social media and technology; while describing appearances, talking about films, hobbies, activism, rules, memes and culture.
- listening skills with videos: news reports, explainer videos, a short animated video, a movie trailer, a TED Talk video, BuzzFeed and Insider videos, videos with stories of people and animals, as well as a street interview.
- reading skills with texts about films, social media stories and laws around the world, as well as tweets and articles about real-life superheroes and a 14-year-old SpaceX employee.
- writing skills while creating memes and text messages.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: words to describe people’s appearance, internet vocabulary, film genres, phrasal verbs related to hobbies, emotion adjectives, words and phrases related to social networks, common texting abbreviations, phrasal verbs with ‘away’ and vocabulary to talk about activism.
- grammar: question formation, narrative tenses, Second Conditional, Present Perfect Continuous, modal verbs and question tags.
- functional language: asking and responding to questions, answering text messages, expressing preferences.
Want to learn more?
If you’re not sure how to use our Lesson Flows or need more guidance, you can read more about them here or message us via chat or the contact form. Let us help you save some prep time and make your teaching life easier!
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