| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this Speaking Class lesson, students talk about online learning and its advantages and disadvantages. Students also watch a video, agree or disagree with statements, and read about and discuss online courses.
60 minSpeaking ClassFree
This is a Speaking Class worksheet. It includes a variety of tasks that let your students practise their speaking skills. This lesson format does not focus on grammar or vocabulary. Learn more about it here.
WARM-UP & VIDEO
The speaking lesson contains an extra vocabulary activity in which students have to name different things (e.g. an example of useless information, a reason some books contain outdated information, a website where they can find up-to-date information, etc.). There is also a warm-up in this speaking worksheet in which students think of challenges in trying to find some information. They also brainstorm ways to get the information without the internet. After that, students complete the statements with one idea. Then, they watch the video about online learning and add more information to the statements. Students also discuss the video and answer the questions about information overload and sources of information.
MORE TALKING ABOUT ONLINE LEARNING
Students continue talking about online learning. First, they look at pairs of alternatives and discuss their advantages. They also say which opinion they would prefer. Students choose between things like learning about history from a podcast or from a book and asking ChatGPT for advice on writing a CV or googling tips on how to write a CV. After that, students read some statements (e.g. An offline course certificate is worth more than an online course certificate.) and decide if they agree or disagree with them. To wrap up the lesson, students read the descriptions of different online courses (e.g. dog training, time management, Instagram feed design, etc.) and discuss the questions. Students talk about the information that should be included in the course description and also how course creators can encourage people to take their courses. Students share their experience related to online learning and imagine creating their own online course.
WORKSHEETS
A very interesting and engaging lesson, keep them coming 🙂
Thanks, Greg. We sure will!
A really good speaking-focused lesson. Thank you.
Thanks, I’m glad you like it 🙂
An amazing lesson! Thank you very much!!
Happy to hear that 🙂
This class is labeled as free but when I click on student’s version / teacher’s version I cannot open the documents.
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Great lesson. I’m sure my students will find it interesting! However, it might be a good idea to add useful language students will need to discuss the questions, such as phrases to talk about advantages and disadvantages, or showing degrees of agreement.
It’s fantastic to hear you like the lesson.
When it comes to useful language, we do add it to some lesson plans but also don’t want to be too repetitive as functions like agreeing and disagreeing is something students practise in most of our lessons. We might try to add useful language more often, though. Thanks!
This was a good speaking lesson plan. My student was engaged and enjoyed the conversations created. Thanks Greg.
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Ewa! I really like your lesson and want your permission to use it as a sample of how we can make it interactive online (for ELT workshop). I need your surname (if you do not mind to follow the copyright issues) Thank you.
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Thank you!
Wow! If this is what the classes are like, I’m definitely subscribing to the premium plan. Outstanding work!
Thanks, Alexander! Yes, other Speaking lessons are designed in a similar fashion.
Please bear in mind that it’s the Unlimited plan that gives you access to Speaking lessons (and all the other lessons on the website). The Premium plan covers standard lesson plans, which also focus on speaking but to a lesser extent as they also cover vocabulary, grammar, functional language, etc.