| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson students watch a video, practise using the phrase but in fact, and talk about Instagram.
VOCABULARY & VIDEO
At the beginning of the lesson, students read two opinions about Instagram and discuss which one they agree with and why. They also learn the phrase scroll through the feed. Then, students need to complete more opinions about Instagram using the correct forms of like and look like. If students struggle to see the difference between the two, the teacher might choose to bring students’ attention to the examples of like and look like from the first exercise. After that, students talk about Instagram. They do this referring to the statements they completed. Before watching the video, students do a vocabulary task in which they have to match some collocations (e.g. feel annoyed, hang out with friends, organize a desk). Then, they watch the video and put the actions in the order they see them.
GRAMMAR & DISCUSSION
Students watch the first part of the video again and choose the best way to complete a sentence. The sentence introduces the phrase but in fact. Then, students have to complete notes about other people from the video using the given prompts and the phrase but in fact. They also practise the use of look and look like. Next, they talk about Instagram and discuss what the message of the video is. They also brainstorm the negative results the behaviour from the video might cause. After that, students look at some fake Instagram photos and posts, imagine that the people from the photos are also in the video, and say what the people might in fact do or feel before they share their posts. Finally, students read statements about truth and lies on social media, choose one they agree with most and explain their choice.
WORKSHEETS
Unable to display pictures and icons of presentation when downloaded as pptx file on my pc? I would like to present this on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, but cannot with the missing pictures and icons.
Hi Jeffrey! I replied to your e-mail in this matter. Everything works fine on our end and we didn’t create this lesson in some other way, so potentially it looks as some sort of error on your computer side. Get back to me via email and we will find a solution together.
perfect!! i am preparing this lesson for tomorrow lesson and it is simply perfect. Everything is clear and simple and you can just follow the steps and the lesson will be great.
Thank you so much, Maya! We’re happy you found this lesson suitable for your class 🙂 Let us know how the lesson turned out 😉
This was really engaging! Great lesson, well done
Thank you for your feedback! We’re happy your students liked it 🙂
I found the lesson more challenging than A2 level. Would this work for higher levels such as B2? Thanks.
Hi Troy! Thank you for your feedback! As long as the video doesn’t contain any language, you can adapt this worksheet for higher levels depending on your students’ goals and needs. Having said that, I consider the vocabulary part too easy for B2 students. If you like the content of this lesson I’d suggest that you focus on adding more sentence frames that your students could use to discuss the questions or on introducing more advanced vocabulary (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms).
Good luck!
Great lesson plan. Very nice focus on ‘like’ vs ‘look like’. I used it with my B1 students and it worked really well.
Thank you for feedback, Lucia! We’re happy your students liked the lesson 🙂
Inna, thank you so much for this lesson plan! I used it soon after covering the topic of linking verbs and my students really benefited from this inbuilt “repetition”. I also enjoyed how one activity is used several times, first for language focus and second for follow-up discussion, very lexically 🙂 What I also liked is the idea of using Present Simple for describing what we’ve just seen in the video, which gives students an alternative way of seeing narration. And of course this pan in the heading.
Thank you for your feedback, Liliia! We’re happy you found this lesson so engaging 🙂
Thank you so much for this lesson! It’s just an amazing support for teachers! I’ve seen the first lesson and immediately subscribed!
Thank you for this great feedback, Julia! We’re delighted you love our materials 🙂
Inna, thank you so much for your wonderful lesson plan. My students were happy doing this activity.
Thank you so much for your feedback! We’re happy to hear that your students enjoyed this lesson 🙂