| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students do a warm-up activity, watch an ad and do a multiple choice task. They also write social media posts and have a discussion.
C1 / Advanced60 minStandard LessonUnlimited Plan
WARM-UP ACTIVITY & VIDEO
The ESL lesson about humblebragging starts with an engaging warm-up activity. Students look at the term ‘humblebragging’ and decide what it might refer to. The teacher can give students a hint by providing them with definitions of ‘humble’ and ‘brag’. To check their answers, students watch the video of a person humblebragging. After that, students have a discussion and talk about their experiences with such behaviour. The teacher can also encourage students to get creative and think of ways to humblebrag about different achievements (e.g. about meeting someone famous, their child’s accomplishments, their number of followers on social media, etc.).
VOCABULARY & DISCUSSION
In this part of the lesson students work with vocabulary, do a multiple choice task, and talk more about humblebragging. First, students look at the pairs of words (brag and boast, praise and flatter, own and acknowledge) and discuss if there is a difference in meaning. Then, students move on to the multiple choice questions. They read a text and decide which answer best fits each gap. Students also discuss the text they completed. They talk about aspects of humblebragging other than mentioned in the warm-up activity and the video. After that, students also discuss different achievements and say how the people around them react to these achievements. In the final activity, students look at some humblebrags on social media and rewrite them more sincerely.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson about humblebragging includes an additional task in which students get creative and write some social media posts for different people and situations. You can use it as homework or revision. It’s available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it, cut it up and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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Love it!
Great lesson! My students really enjoyed it. Thank you
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Hi, when I download this PPT, it says there is a problem with it and it needs to be repaired, but even reparation isn’t able to fix it. Would it be possible for you to look into it? 🙂 Thank you!
It’s fixed! Turned out that Powerpoint breaks when it sees a list starting from 0, also it doesn’t really comprehend lists very well and makes a mess if you have a list with no texts, so please check numbering in slides 11-17. All in all, we recommend using Google Slides – our e-lesson plans are designed in that tool, work and look the best there as well. We can’t guarantee compatibility with any other tool.
Love your CAE preparation lessons! This is probably the only platform that has them in a PPT format. However, there are very few at the moment, will you be adding more soon?
Laura, thanks for you comment! We’re happy you like our lessons with CAE tasks. We will try our best to include more of them in our lessons. You can check out our other worksheets with such activities here.
A fun and thought-provoking lesson with lots of food for thought! Highly recommended.
We’re happy to hear such positive feedback 🙂 Thanks!
I like this lesson plan. I’m wondering if it could be suitable for teens. With little adjustments… What do you think?
I just want to let you know that the lesson worked perfectly well with teens. I had made some smaller changes to tasks 7 and 8. I think the students enjoyed it.
I think such lesson plans for CAE and IELTS tasks are priceless. Thank you! 🙂
Hi Anne! Thank you for taking the time to comment! We’re happy that the lesson went well with your teen students. It’s great to hear that the topic resonated with them 🙂 You can check out our other lessons with exam tasks here. I hope you find them useful 🙂
It was such an interesting lesson when I did it some time ago. Now, I wanted to come back to it and I see that the video is not available anymore:( What a pity…
Hi! Thanks for letting us know! We’ve just updated the link, so you can again enjoy the lesson with your students 🙂